Hello!
Sarah - the pasta was really nice. I had the leftovers as pasta salad yesterday, and I may well be making it again if I get some more broad beans.
Yesterday was a long day. I started at 9am in Denshaw (on Saddleworth Moor), walked from there down to Marsden. I was going to run it but realised I was facing into a howling gale, and it was hiller and more off road than I expected. I thought it would be footpaths like the off road I stuff do down here, but it was very much just moorland. I also got slightly lost a couple of times so probably ended up doing about 7 miles. I ran the last couple once I got back onto the road and the wind dropped a bit.
Then I got the bus from Marsden to Huddersfield, stopped for a coffee and reading the paper in Huddersfield. Then the bus from Huddersfield to Bradford. I had some sandwiches then met up with everyone else. We walked round the pitch in the pre-match parade, collected some money then set off back to Denshaw.
Believe me, starting a 21 mile walk at 3.30 in the afternoon is asking for trouble! The pace wasn't too slow, but even so it just seemed to take hours. It was baking at the start, but got colder and colder and colder. By the end we were walking down the side of the road across Saddleworth Moor in the dark with no streetlights and no footpath - scary!
I reckon I did about 27 miles in the end. I dropped out just before the end because their B&B was about a mile further along than where I'd parked the car, so given the time and the temperature I really didn't fancy walking to the end with them and then walking back for the car.
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My legs are fine this morning, I've just been for a swim to sort them out
I almost wish I was doing the whole distance with them rather than working, but I realised I'd get grumpy about food. Yesterday I was OK because I took my own food with me (and then got teased for thinking their food wasn't good enough/not sharing) but the truth is that I know what sort of fuel I need to do 27 miles in a day, and I'm not going to leave it to chance. I'm also not going to carry enough for everyone for 27 miles! If I was going further obviously I wouldn't be able to do that, and I'd hate not being able to plan what I was eating. Not least because the meal they had waiting for them at the B&B last night seemed to be entirely meat based so I'd have gone hungry if I had been relying on eating it.
Anyway, that's enough rambling on. I now need to see how my legs feel this evening before I decide whether to go to running club tonight or run in tomorrow instead.
Actually I think they either stopped laying, or the rats were getting to the eggs. Now they've got 2 or 3 ducks which don't lay. Or if they do, they haven't found the eggs yet. Dad is very lazy with shutting the ducks in and they've lost 3 or 4 now. 
I'm glad they don't have chickens because it'd probably be carnage! 
over night! 
Veggie sorry to hear hope you're feeling better today. Did they give you any drugs? Look after yourself.
