Overeating at Christmas demands suicidal running. Snow on the ground set hard into an icy crust, no matter. I had to get out.
So through a frosted cemetery, across white cricket grounds, past frozen lakes, by the homeless tent dweller who has now constructed an additional shelter out of wood by the looks of things, I headed out to owl country and Cotham Flash.
The owl road was a grey slash through white, Cotham Flash white gulls circling against a low sun as Dunnocks drank from thawing puddles. I headed onto a bridal way before Hawton, past a field with a large flock of fieldfare. Fieldfare are surprisingly bulky birds in the air, their white breasts making them look almost like lapwing from a distance.
It was a rewarding, if slow 12km. You get a real sense of achievement, and a certificate in certifiability, when you run in bad conditions.
I love it. The world outside doesn't disappear just because it is cold.
So through a frosted cemetery, across white cricket grounds, past frozen lakes, by the homeless tent dweller who has now constructed an additional shelter out of wood by the looks of things, I headed out to owl country and Cotham Flash.
The owl road was a grey slash through white, Cotham Flash white gulls circling against a low sun as Dunnocks drank from thawing puddles. I headed onto a bridal way before Hawton, past a field with a large flock of fieldfare. Fieldfare are surprisingly bulky birds in the air, their white breasts making them look almost like lapwing from a distance.
It was a rewarding, if slow 12km. You get a real sense of achievement, and a certificate in certifiability, when you run in bad conditions.
I love it. The world outside doesn't disappear just because it is cold.
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| Sun over the town of the dead |
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| Elm Avenue cricket ground |
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| Icy Lake |
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| But no ice on this bit |
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| Homeless man's camp |
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| Owl Country |
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| Post industrial landscape |
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| Cotham Flash |
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| Lumps of gypsum tell the story of the landscape's past as a mine |
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| Crystalline |
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| The bridleway |
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| Large flock of fieldfare was on the left |
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| Sun bright cannon |
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