The loneliness of a long distance hasher

Hills, Curry and Woodfords Wherry

Great Shelford hill training with a warm up to Scotstsdale's garden centre - 5.5 miles of high altitude Cambridgeshire. Does training get tamer than this?

Stuart's marathon plan required 5 miles of gratuitous knee wear. Both of us being bored with treadmills we thought we'd try out one of the (only?) available hills in Cambridgeshire. Rachel had to "entertain clients". Hermione was "on a marketing course". Ankle deep in excuses, Stuart and I were on our own.

Given the severity of the expedition we had carefully scoped out an emergency recovery facility - The Railway Tavern - convieniently situated on the return leg of Hinton way.



















So on Thursday night at about 7.30pm we set out to storm the South West and North East ascents of "Hinton Way". It rises from 15m to >45m at the summit. We stormed the summit twice, just to check it was really there.

Our planning prudence was entirely justified. We got very thirsty. The Woodfoords Wherry and Thai food afterwards at the Railway Tavern was just what was needed.

What we learned:

• We learned that treadmills could benefit from being sited near to well selected pubs
• The ropes we took weren't necessary - you can be too careful
• And the hills? we can handle hills.

posted by Winston @ 5:18 PM