Use It Or Lose It

Today it's the Stilton Stumble 10k. There used to be a 24k option which was never that popular but now before I got to have a crack at it, it has been discontinued. So now there is just the 10k.Use it or lose it I suppose.

The course is bacially a tour around the Stilton cheese making villages of Cropwell Bishop, Colston Bassett and Long Clawson with the added bonus that on completion you get a block of said cheese, so it’s well worth the run even if it’s chucking it down.Which it is.

Daughter joins us and naturally makes us feel like we have forced her into it, particularly considering the rain. Just as apparently we forced her into Draycote a few weeks ago. After which, of course, she was sat in the back of the car putting photos of her medal on instafacebook.

Anyhow, eventually we all emerge from the dry-ness of the car and have a decent run. Well, that is if you regards my 48 minutes as decent. I'm not sure I do.

(Sunday 14^th October)

A Cheesy Tour

Today we head off to Cropwell Bishop for a tour of the local cheese production area, namely the villages of Colston Bassett, Long Clawson and of course Cropwell Bishop itself. This is the Stilton Stumble in the home of Stilton Cheese and it comes in both a 10k and a 24k variety.

I would like to give the 24 a shot one day but with the Leicester Half Marathon next weekend, and the Derby Half still in my legs from last weekend, it’s just the 10 for me today. As it is for L.

It’s a somewhat soggy start at the Memorial Hall in Cropwell Bishop and nobody really wants to get stripped off too early. Perhaps the weather will improve once we get started? 

It doesn’t, it gets worse and a torrential downpour a few miles in is refreshing to say the least. The sun does finally come out, when we’ve finished.

By then I’ve been handed my block of Stilton, which is much much better than a medal, and I'm giving Doggo a leg up over a wall to get him in a good supporting position to bark L over the line.

Then it's time to dry out and to head to the Tennis Centre for a shower because obviously we don’t have one at home.

In the evening it’s the Horse and Jockey in Stapleford for dark ale number No 95 - Full Mash’s Northern Lights.

(Sunday 16^th October)