Horses, bridges, water and mud

Because I’d planned to do four miles today, I didn’t really want to do my usual field route and tag on another mile so I thought I’d go to the fields past the churchyard that me and Shaun have walked over many times, if I could find them on my own.

So I ran down the hill to the beats of Audiofuel and went through the churchyard, feeling glad that Shaun didn’t buy the house overlooking the dead people and I find the gate that leads through to the level crossing

and there’s no trains coming from the right

or from the left

and then I’m on the slippery stones

but I manage not to fall over and then I’m on the bridge

and there’s water and everything

and then I have to go over a stile

and I manage to get over it all by myself and not fall over into the mud and in the field is a horse

and a little horse

and then there’s another stile

and another field

and another bridge

and I run round the field and when I get halfway round the field I think this is the field that me and Shaun came in before where we saw all the birds on the phone wire but we came from a different direction and now I’m confused and I think if I carry on going round, it’s not going to be four miles but I carry on going and then I’m back to the bridge and I go over the bridge and there’s a nice blue sky

which makes a change from the grey skies and wind and rain we seem to have had for ever and I get back to the field where the horses live and they’re even nearer than they were before

and the big horse comes to say hello or have you got anything more interesting than grass I can eat please?

but I haven’t got anything more interesting for him to eat than grass and I stop to stroke the horse but I’m a bit scared as I haven’t been in the same field as a horse for years and they’re usually on the other side of a fence and I wonder if countryside horses are fierce and bark a lot and I decide that no, that’s only countryside dogs that do that and I carry on running and the horse doesn’t start barking at me and I go past a stile and wonder if that’s the stile I came over but I think it’s far too near and I go to the end of the field and I see the bridge

and I think what’s the bridge doing over there? and so I go back the way I came and go over the stile and over the bridge and then I’m back on the slippery bit

and then I’m approaching the churchyard and there’s an old lady and a man going in and they hold the gate open for me and I say thank you and there’s people looking at graves in the churchyard and I don’t want to run through the churchyard when there’s people in there and so I walk through the dead people and I look over to my right and I see the village and I think what’s it doing over there? and I’ve gone a different way back and I’m round the corner from the bottom of the hill and I think I’ll have to run up the hill as I’ve done hardly any running on this run but I don’t even get as far as the bit where I usually get off my bike and push it but then I start running again and I get back to the house at 3.07 miles and I wonder if I’ve got another mile in me and I decide yes and so I carry on past the house and after half a mile I stop and turn round and go back and I get to the house at 3.96 miles and I think bloody hell, I’ll have to carry on going and I switch my Garmin off at 4 miles and turn back and on the house next door is a sign saying Happy Birthday, 70 today and I think no it isn’t and no I’m not and then I decide the sign probably wasn’t meant for me.

Stats:
Distance: 4.03 miles
Time: 55:09
Pace: 13:41 m/m
Calories: 345
Level crossings: 1
Trains: 0
Bridges: 2
Horses: 2
Little horses: 1
Barking horses: 0
Times gone past house: 2
Signs for 70 years olds: 1
Music:
Audiofuel