I spent Saturday-Tuesday in bed with flu and Wed-Thu feeling really ill, so after a short jog on Saturday which didn't actually kill me I thought I'd jog round Tanky's.

The first 1:30 to Crowden was quite fun and meeting Geoff at Crowden I was exactly on schedule for ~3:45 and had a cheery chat. The next 3 hours were not quite so much fun...

Going up Bleaklow my legs went to jelly, it started to hail, and I discovered that noone was going my way - I saw only one set of studs until Upper North Grain! Reduced to walking anything resembling uphill, I plodded on and rejoined the field rather further down and had a slightly less cheery chat with Geoff again and stole almost his entire remaining stock of jelly babies.

Realising that the quickest way home was to continue over Kinder I trotted off down the road, grabbed some Lucozade from Rick and (almost) managed to enjoy the last section.

From Crowden to the end took me approx 50% longer than my original pre-flu plan!

Perhaps I'll be more sensible in future?

A big thanks to everyone who helped organise it, and to Rick and Geoff for helping me get to the finish under my own steam - just!!