Race Updates

couple of brief updates along my trail ..

7/9 - Madeley Matchmaker 5km. Dark, gloomy, slightly wet run round the outskirts of Madeley and Woodside. My own 20th anniversary 'cuz this is where it all started. Nothing major to report other than (1) impressed with the size of the field (200+ ?) and (2) its year zero again - i'm back on the long road to recovery ( which now seems a longer road than ever :0) )
11/9 - Goodrich 10k . Nice loopy thing round Coven near Wolverhampton. Not a great time for me, fairly close to my personal worst for 10k although in mitigation m'lud it has been a few years since the last race at this distance.

Easy..like a Sunday morning..

Late to rise, and I knew I had to back in time for Mo's brilliant 5km win :) so a climb up and over the Ercall Hill was in order. It's steep enough to get the heart pumping but not too long to count as "a day out in the hills" :) There werent too many folks about; Telford is still asleep, or watching Sunday Kitchen, or out at a car booty or maybe doing a bit of XBoxing. Saw a young couple out walking toy dogs and a bloke with some psycho beast on a lead, but little else until I got to the golf course. It looked like the Hash have been out in the Limekiln woods again, I spied the familiar sawdust marks and then noticed that there had also been some coppicing going on, trees and sawdust all over the path - heh heh that'll confuse the hash house harriers, and that's before the beer takes hold :) I then had a strange encounter with a tooled-up platoon of elderly ramblers which I won't go into here, and then it was just a question of dodging the bad golfers and cruising home past the cricket game on the Bowring Rec. Easy, like a Sunday morning.