Waiting to hear what you found Andy. Personally, I was warm and tucked up in bed.

Down here there was plenty of snow last night, but lower down (only a few hundred feet above sea level) it's all melting away.

The planned trip round the Hobble route was somewhat abbreviated last weekend. Good company in the form of Mrs.C; AndreaS; Steve Merry Foster Legs and Hazel from Macc. The weather was pants... sleety, wet and very windy. My dog became seriously knackered too and was a bit of a distraction. At 18-20 miles we got back in the car and called it a day.... wet, cold, knackered and smelly.


I suppose that's a day well spent!

Next morning up at 8 to go on the Macc Sunday steady trot... this week was following an orienteering route round Gradbach. I thought I'd be very achy and weary, but none of it... felt really good. Did about 12k and then ran home over Shutlingsloe and Teggs Nose. The driving (horizontal) sleet on top of Shut was a bit nasty, but I knew it was going to be passed in a couple of minutes. Now, however, despite no sprains or turns, my left ankle is swollen and sore... getting a bit better through the week, but still not right... Simply overuse? Strange.

So a good few miles last weekend, even if the Hobble route wasn't quite the day out I'd planned.

Next for me, the Manx Mountain Marathon route from South to North on 23rd December... assuming we get there OK. Done North to South a few times, but for and change and to ease the logistics, doing it back to front this time.

So I'll keep squeezing in the long days as and when possible and whenever I see a hill, go up it.