Fabulous run this morning in the hills around the famous area of Flash Bar, led by the lovely infatigable Hazel, who took the troops in fine windless weather over some un-visited before tricky terrain above Gradbach. A good turnout of 16 souls, one very young and the rest varied from between mature, old and very old. But hey, age wasn’t a problem- far from it. The troops jelled quite well out there to almost coagulation and loosened only when a few runners felt need to separate and do there own thing, meeting later, back at the Café. The rest were left to experience Hazel’s, bog hopping technique through some pretty interesting wetland. Fortunately, there wasn’t much of the stuff but surely enough there to help dampen Mandy’s ankle, which she had turned a little while before in some dodgy ground. At the time of the incident she let off an expletive, which stunned the rest of us. We never though the lady could utter such a word. But there you go. One never really knows what thy friends are capable of saying. Mind you, if that had happened to be me, god only knows how much I would have squealed. We lost Mandy and Martin a little latter on, understandably on a damage- limitation exercise back to Flash. Hazel, then pressed the decreasing troops on up through pleasant fields and over rickety stiles to tarmac lane, where another member of the troop thought it necessary to peel-off the route and make his own way back to base while the remainder carried on without much thought.
Then and not too far from base, young Allen Bunyan developed a nosebleed. Within a flash the mothering instincts of the ladies present kicked in and the poor lad's face was smothered in tissue and after a little while he was well recovered and soon running again, arriving back looking just fine. The lad was fortunate though, if he’d been out with just the boys, all manner of remedies would have been explored, a stick up the nose comes to mind or, bend down, where he might of bled to death. All I can say about the experience is, we should all be grateful we have such a wonderful selection of ladies in the club.....did I say that right then?
