Author: Buck
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Bolton Hill Marathon.
Holy crap, that was tough! Think of a tough thing, then times it by several orders of sadism and you are in the ball park. First off it was goddamn freezing. Apparently the wind chill had it at –3C. I thought it was colder. The wind was howling a gale on the hill tops, the…
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Bloody big run!
That’s it. My blog for this week. Worked, did big run. Note to self; must try harder! Last weekend I did bugger all. I was so knackered (and lazy) that I just loafed around and then it was Monday again. Bah. A few days ago I started feeling chesty. It felt hard work to…
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I am become death…
…destroyer of owls. I forgot to mention, a week or so ago I was tootling along, minding my own business, when one of those flat faced owls swooped across the road, noticed me trundling towards him (grammatical ‘him’, couldn’t guess the sex) and instead of carrying on out of my way braked in mid air…
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Gateshead revisited.
On Monday I turned up at Crewe to the joyous news that I am now on the Gateshead run. This means I have to drive for 50 minutes from Irlam to Crewe, swap trailers then drive to Gateshead (next door to Newcastle upon Tyne.) Right up in the (possibly cannibalistic) North East. Which means I…