Well that was an lovely experience. I ran a pre-Twitten run with the God Father himself this morning, Mr Tom Roper. We did Sweder’s circuit and it was very enjoyable. The pace was a little quicker than I expected so we managed to fit in an extra bit before we met with the rest of the Twitten Twits at 9am.
We then ran the Twittens, which was bloody hard work this morning. A large group congregated at the start line… but a group that was pretty much made up of ‘hard-core runners’, including Will (13 years old) who was usually the first to the top and didn’t even have the good grace to break into a sweat.
Being a group of crazies meant the pace was faster, the rest periods were smaller and the chat was more restrained – due to the first two reasons. By the time the coffee shop made its appearance I was ready for a sit down.
(Note to self… I must eat before I go out running).
Coffee over, three of us set off back to the prison as Tom had left his car at the top (and we needed to get Sweder back to the prison before a 10:30 curfew… ha ha ha). Having said our good byes to Tom, the Big Man and I ran the last few yards to where we usually part company… but I was feeling frisky this morning and suggested we did a little more. So it was back up the prison road for half a mile where he peeled off to head home, leaving me to run another mile or so back over the race course and along the railway line back home.
All in all a healthy nine miles.
