My plan this morning was to get up early with Duncan and take Ruby out on an easy run before other dog walkers were out of bed but, when the alarm went off at 5.20 I was so tired that I decided to just stay in bed and that I'd go out for a run on my own later on. I slept in until gone 9am (it's going to kill me starting to get up at 5.20 again next week) and then took Ruby out for a walk. Whilst walking, I noticed a post on Facebook from Joc Chadderton asking whether anyone wanted to go for a run today. Most of the guys are off to the Lakes so had said they weren't available but I was thrilled at this and hoped that she hadn't already gone out on her own. I put on a reply saying that I could run and we arranged to meet up at the usual Monday night spot at 11am.
Because of last night's hill session, I didn't really want to go up onto the tops and wanted to have a relatively easy low level run and thankfully, Joc was fine with this. I took her on a route she doesn't know very well and it's part of the route of the Rivington Half Marathon.
We left the barn and ran to Rivington Village then to the bowling club and made our way along past Yarrow Reservoir. We came out onto the road and ran down the road then around the corner to the trail around Anglezarke Reservoir. We followed the trail round, eventually coming out at Watermans Cottage and then ran along the road to the steps and through the field to Healey Nab. I took Joc up to the cairn at the top of Healey Nab as she hasn't been up there before and she was really amazed at how close to Botany Bay we were.
We ran back down and onto the bridleway and followed this out onto Back Lane. We then turned off Back Lane onto the path on the left (which comes out opposite The Street) and waded through the giant puddle which was even worse today than it had been when I had gone this way a few days ago, although I didn't just plough straight through the middle of it today and we made our way around the outside but still got soaking wet feet.
When we came out opposite the Street, we ran along the road and then went up 'the cascade' coming back out at the side of Yarrow Reservoir. We then ran back down the trail but when the paths split, instead of going back the way we came towards the bowling club, we turned left and followed Dean Brook, climbing the steps and running through the field, coming out at Rivington Village.
We were both pretty tired by the time we arrived back at the barn and also pretty wet as it had rained non-stop for the second half of our run but we had a lovely time and it was great to get out with good company during the day. If I hadn't run with Joc I would have only ended up doing a short run on my own.
Total distance - 7.85 miles
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