Rest day

So today was a rest day....but the call of the Dark Peak Fell Runners calendar box (its essentially a geocache) was strong. We found a spot to park up then trotted along the track for a couple of kilometres at a reasonable pace of about 7:30/km - it was afterall a rest day and I shouldn't really be running. A hike up the hill took us to our search area where we split up on high and low ground. It was great for me, gaining confidence on tufty, rocky steep slopes, scrambling over boulders etc. After a fuel stop (homemade rocky road from the Woodbine) we retraced our steps and found the box tucked in its hiding spot.  Nice one.  Taking a rolo each we replaced those with a mini snickers, and Tim wrote our entry in the log book and headed down.

Tempting as it was to head up the hill from our location and jog along the top, we chose to head down, it is a rest day after all!! Steady on the down, walking steep/rocky sections and jogging out the grassy bits. Legs feeling good we cross the stream and back on the track towards the car. I could definitely tell I'd run yesterday. If I'd been on that track with fresh legs I could have run all the way back to the car. As it was, I took a couple of short walk breaks and enjoyed the feeling of being out in the hills on a rainy day. We'd managed to avoid the worst of the weather, but gladly took my goretex proshell for the couple of heavy downpours we did get. Temperature was warm throughout, and by the time we were back at the car it was lovely and sunny.

At the car we took some time to learn names of the local features...then headed home for a cuppa.  I'd publish a picture, but that would give away the location, and we want everyone else to get their maps out and do the search using the clue map. Good Luck everyone!