20 miles today - in the wind and rain!

It was 20 miles today, the longest session I've ever done, and I'm walking like a Wooden Top.

You can see the route I took if you click here .

I did 11.5 miles on my own then Birg joined me for the last 8.5. It was very windy the whole time but thankfully it only rained for the first hour or so. However, there'd been torrential rain throughout the night and I ended up paddling through flood water on at least five occasions. Once, the water was flowing so hard I feared for my safety, a car refused to go through it, instead turning around to find an alternative route - I had to negotiate it or go back the way I'd come and do an extra 5 miles, so I lifted my knees and went for it, the water came half way up my shins. The worst thing was that I was wearing my new trainers - that will be them ruined then.

I was so impressed with myself that when we'd finished the run I got Birg to drive me back there and take a photo, here it is (bear in mind I'd been through it 3 hours earlier so it had subsided considerably)




When we were there I thought it would be good to give a practical demonstration of what it had been like. I was still wet and cold so it wasn't much of a hardship to run through again with Birg videoing me (a passing horse rider thought it a bit odd mind!) anyway here we are:

I know I haven't updated this since last Sunday which is a bit remiss of me. There were lots of photos of me at the Silverstone Half Marathon last week (possibly because the phtographers thought I may collapse?) and I've ordered some but it will take about 2 weeks to receive them. If you can't contain yourself and feel you must see me wobbling like a Weeble over the finish line then click on this link , you need to click on the 'My photo's' tab. Birg is here and looks a lot healthier than me at the finish - she obviously didn't try hard enough!