Quote Originally Posted by MattPo View Post
Are you just a grumpy Bast*rd? What about celebrating the birth of the lovely baby Jesus? I enjoy it as an excuse to see my family and run in a diffrent part of the country.
Celebrate the fact that you can go for a long run on Christmas day and all the morons are pissed at home.
My tradition has been for a long run on Boxing Day. But for several years, between moving to Loughborough and meeting my wife, I also developed a tradition of long cycle rides on 23/24th December. With parents in Leigh-on-Sea and a sister near St Neots, it was 70-75 miles (depending on route) on 23rd, a night at my sister's place, then around 80 miles on 24th (although occasionally I used train assistance to reduce that day's mileage, depending on weather (especially wind direction) and how unfit I felt). Runs from Leigh-on-Sea would often go around the Hadleigh Castle area, used for the London2012 mountain biking and before that for a race advertised on this forum: https://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/show...light=hadleigh