Adventures!

Life is certainly different right now, but on the plus side, Saturdays are now better than ever before, because for the last five weeks, Saturday has become "escape from London and run an ultra day". Which isn't too dissimilar from normal, but is much more appreciated than it used to be, for sure. Some photos from the last two weekends...

20.06.2020 - 31.5 miles, Milton Keynes

First trip north of London since lockdown! Great to see Alan and Tom after months and months! No Krav, obviously, but a long run results in a similar effect on the body as getting beaten up in Krav, so easy to imagine. Thanks Alan for planning the route, which looped north from MK through the countryside up to Salcey Forest, tantalisingly close to the tea shop, but then took a big loop around, before finally coming back to the tea shop, and then winding it's way back to MK.

Luckily, everyone got the memo about wearing blue....

 So we were all set for running off through the meadows,

It was reassuring to see that even the sheep seem to be struggling to manage to keep their hair looking decent during lockdown...

Flowers don't have such problems,

Spot the footpath?

Ta da!

Hanslope church spire can be seen from most points of this run, so essentially it had felt like we'd been running around it all day, so what better place to pause for for an ice cream stop, than in the shadow of it's spire?

In Castlethorpe we lost our way, but were saved....

And made it back to MK, where we were joined by a delivery robot (they have them in MK, and they deliver takeaways!)

 We didn't need no takeaway though, we had picnic!

13.06.2020 - 30 miles, Surrey Hills
Time for another round of the Winter Tanners with Tara. This run was fab.

Quite long and hilly. So played the "In my bag on the Wales 100 I would have..." game to while away a few miles. Made more sense at the time, and no sense at all now, but for the record, we chose to take (in order) a defibrillator, a marble, a bottle of whiskey, a snorkel, a tea bag, a leak, a body bag, one alcohol hand wipe, and Tom Jones. 

Then we made it to a golf course, which called for another game to get us through. Of course it did. Even with the best of drives, and nerves of iron, golf courses are tedious. Wait. I think I saw a birdie, is it an eagle? Or a turkey? Better keep our eyes open, or we'll end up in the bunker. Feeling a bit green, a bit below par? Join the club! Could do with a nice cup of tee, that would swing things back around, and feel like a pro again. That was a tedious link, better put this game to bed.

Ahem.

Back to Denbies to dry our socks and eat cake.