Ok, so here goes, somehow I got talked in
to writing this- My name’s Dougal, and tonight I led the “Torchlight” run.
Well, that’s what my human calls it.
So it goes a bit like this, at about 6-30 I
was driven to a remote spot called a Cricket club.
Once there I was joined by
some very strange humans. Nearly all of these humans were wearing florescent
green type coats and strange lights on their heads. After listening to their
constant whining about how they had done this and done that over the weekend,
we again jumped in the wheels and were driven to a place called Malkins
Bank. We soon gathered, I understand
that there was My Human Jo, Chris Brumby and my mate Andre Scooby (another 4 legged
friend) Heather, Mik and some other bloke called Paul.
We soon set off on a run across a field,
whence there it was not long before I was to come across some very staring eyed
big beasts of Cows. They never bothered me but all I could hear around me was
the human people moaning “I hate cows” bla
bla bla. Anyhow none of the big heifers
gave chase and it wasn’t long before we were through that field and across
another and in to the sheep pen. Yep that’s right, a field full of sheep. I
looked around thinking, yum yum but was encouraged to leave them all alone and
head for the kissing gate across the way. Once through this kissing gate I
managed to put my lead on to my human and do a bit of road running.
Now previously, Paul had mentioned to my
dad that should ever the M6 be closed, we could gather quickly and have a
motorway race. Well, mum, in keeping with this idea thought it would be a good
idea to check this out by running down the service entrance to the M6 at
Sandbach to check this out. However, sadly, the motorway remained open so I led
my human and her accomplices on a run up another lane to another few fields. At
this point Mik, had to climb a gate, less than 24 hours after running in the
Valencia marathon.
Now, that was something worth watching. Me? I just went
through it. Mik moaned and moaned as he climbed it but as soon as he had done
that and Paul had cocked his leg we were off again. More muddy field’s right up
to my knees and through a few more styles and there we were. Another gate, At this
point we all took a step back, laughed and watched Mik struggle to climb a gate
in his post marathon leg aching pain. Once he had struggled to cope with that,
Paul simply opened the gate and I and he walked through it HA HA. All of a sudden we were faced with a river,
so deep and so long that I thought I could of made a boat. However, Chris
Brumby decided to utilize his all mountain climbing skills and climb a bridge
to avoid getting wet. Me on the other hand? Well I headed straight through it
with all the others. Once on the other side there was even more running, Uphill
through some mud and phew we were there, back at the canal.
At this point we ran along the tow path
thingy with Chris and Andre stretching out. I soon realised that this was not
going to be a new PB and opted to dive in to the canal for a good old fashioned
paddle. After a little coxing I got out and kept running and before we know
that was that. Me and Andre got a Boneo, Mik went for a Thai, and the rest went
for a shower. I’m stretched out now drying off, after another interesting
torchlight run. I hope you like my
photo.
Next week, I’m told we are off on another
one, this time we are heading up up and away… they are really good the
torchlight runs, I hope we have a few more humans next week.. Till then good
bye.
Dougal
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