Running Apes

Following a pretty poor attempt over the last couple of weeks with the Snow and building up to the Motown evening Jess and I were determined to put in a good performance this weekend.

We had been running to Farningham and back for the last couple of weeks but we thought we should change the route a bit.  So we set out on a different course completely unaware of how far it was.  The first part of the route was from my house in West Dartford along Birchwood Road to the old Deja Vu nightclub.  Despite the entire leg of the journey being on a slight uphill we turned right along the old A20 in good spirits. 

The second leg down towards Foots Cray was excellent and with the sun out was very enjoyable.  We had both brought new trainers at the beginning of the week and so far they were not causing us any problems. 

After a total of 6 miles we turned right again along the North Cray Road.  Again we were feeling good but we stopped for thirty seconds to speak to Pete Tame, a friend we hadn’t seen for a while, and it was suddenly a struggle to get going again.  As we reached Bexley village we had both run out of water so it was another brief stop to refill.

From this point on it was the push for home.  We ran through Bexley village, along Bourne Road into Crayford and then up the hill towards home.  Here Jess was starting to find it tough but she managed to keep going.  We had run a little faster than we expected so we needed to do a lap of the heath to ensure we had run for at least 2 hours.

We eventually ran for 2 hours 10 minutes and finished in a water fight at my mum’s with Benjamin.  The legs were sore so plenty of running during the week and another attempt at 2.5hrs next week!