Snowdonia Weekend - Sunday 6th May (4 miles and 10 pints)

After our efforts on Day one and the long blog entry prior to this one that you will see, this entry is somewhat shorter!!

We had a little longer sleep this time round to recover from the running and beer combo from the previous day and all started out ok. We checked over are aches - in Dave's case it was cuts and bruises!
I think that you'll agree that in this picture it may well be the strangest looking leg you have ever seen!

I, much to my own surprise felt pretty good. Only niggle I had was in my left ankle where I landed funny and compressed the front of the joint.
We all got our gear ready and set out yet about thirty seconds into that Staff commented that his left knee was giving him some jip, which is not uncommon with us on our runs as I am sure most long distance runners have experienced - sometimes you just hurt but you get on with it anyway.

Having a sports therapy background helped me to realise pretty quickly that we could be in for a short days work. Staff's mobility was non existent and the pain getting increasingly worse for him, which did involve us mocking him slight for being a tart! If he ever writes on here he can give you the run down in more detail of what was going through his head at the time.

We had found our route.......

Random old house crushed by a tree....good photo opportunity!

As we gently warmed up it was clear on Staff's face that he was both struggling and feeling gutted that he was holding us back but as we said to him ' we're a team, injuries happen, we aren't leaving you'
Honourable aren't we ay!!

To be fair I think we were all secretly thinking that this could be a good reason to get to the pub earlier haha

We were going through a wooded area when it came time to strap Staff's leg to try help him out....the poor boy was hobbling around like Jake the peg!

For the record, I din't take this picture...shoddy work!!

What was funny when I was helping strap him up was the fact that he was stripped down to his pants, leaning over to only have a lady walk up behind him in some shock at the sight! "oooo wasn't expecting that" she said haha............I'm sure she loved it really.

We knew our day was coming to a brief conclusion yet it didn't stop us messing about somewhat...........

boys will be boys!!.........or is it just us??

Just so you know, we made it safely back to the pub and drank plenty of this...

In all we had a great weekend, next stop being the lake district 1st - 4th June.

Nick
No Regrets.