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By Robyn Claire-Louise Anderson in General Published: Wednesday, 18 July 07 - 12:42 PM (GMT) Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 July 07 - 01:00 PM (GMT) |
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Roger and I have come down with sore thoats and snotty noses which will hopefully have cleared up by the time we have to fly out on Saturday. But besides that...
We had a cracking run at the Kentmere Horseshoe Fell Race last Sunday. 11 Miles and 3300 feet of ascent in what started off as a sunny day and ended up as a drizzly grey day - no surprises there then. I did however have the mother of all falls whilst descending Kentmere Pike which saw me skidding downhill fast over a grassy path that had become flattened and covered with mud. I did my best basking shark impression and ended up with a mouth full of sheep poo (no, I don't know why I didn't close my mouth, probably 'cos I was trying to breath and had a blocked nose), and coated from head to toe in mud that I'm sure posh ladies would pay a fortune for in selective salons. A kind passerby extricated a couple of bracken fronds that had become attached to the back of my head, but everyone else just laughed.
Roger, on the other hand, did a personal best in the race thereby overcoming all his psychological hangups about this particulair event. Previously, he had run it in the middle of winter when numerous contestants had to be rescued and one poor lass died. The other time was in blistering heat when everyone was lolling about in the stream before the race began and many ended up resigning or being rescued through dehydration or heat exhaustion.
Mmm, time for another Lemsip. I don't think falling into muddy hole during our training run last night did much for the cold. And it stank... A sheep had died in it and all that was left was the skeleton. If I had seen the skeleton on time I might have guessed that it was a very deep hole - instead of trying to leap over it and landing chest high in putrifying mud.
I wonder if you can catch any nasty diseases off dead sheep?
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Top | Reply to this Title: Bridal Showrer Thank You Poems Author: Cyrus Date Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:40 AM (GMT) Even though I have no idea about the dead sheep, I just want to say thanks for the story. |
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