Run to be Social

Rain was forecast for the afternoon so it was decided that a morning run would be more comfortable. It was band practise in the evening and I find it hard to blow my clarinet after a hard run so that also was a factor. The run was five and a half miles long and circled the next village. The first half was mostly on road and slightly downhill, the second half was more off road and slightly uphill. We met a couple of other runners while we were out but they didn’t speak, obviously members of the Antisocial Running Club. The distance we covered makes a total of twenty one miles for the week so far; a four mile run tomorrow will hit our target. There is a local running club near to where we live but we don’t see them out running in groups. When we lived in North Devon we belonged to a club. Six days a week you would find groups running from the clubhouse. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays would be well attended and in the heyday of running Sunday morning ten or fifteen would turn out for a long run. The first four or five miles of which, some would be recounting their exploits of the night before in the bar. By the time we got to ten miles running was taken a bit more seriously. How times have changed. The curtain raiser for the season used to be the Taunton Half Marathon at the beginning of April. It was also a last chance for those runners doing the London Marathon to stretch their legs. It is the thirtieth anniversary of Taunton this year. http://www.tauntonmarathon.co.uk/ .Bideford Half Marathon which was run last week has been held for over ten years and also provides an alternative. http://www.bidefordaac.co.uk/index.htm

The rain forecast for yesterday has arrived today so all garden activities is postponed. I have chopped logs for the fire and it is time to get back to writing my book.