Oh how I absolutely loved this! Now after a busy day at work I love to go out and have a quick blast around with my running shoes on. The Trunce series is an annual group of trail runs, nine in total, through summer, every few weeks on a Monday evening. The series cumulates with race nine which is done in fancy dress.
Now I’ve often been asked to go and run it and always said ‘NO’, I like to keep my trainers clean! It might be only four miles but it involves wading through the river three times, squelching through mud and the most brutal un-runnable uphills and downhills. It’s usually raining and the river is freezing cold.
Anyway, I was asked this time and I said ‘YES’ and oh boy did I enjoy it. When I was little I used to love playing in the mud. I often got into trouble for digging up small sections of my Mum’s flower beds in order to make my mud pies which I used to decorate with and array of berries, twigs and leaves. Well this this was just like going back to my childhood. How often at 51 do you get chance to get dressed up in a silly costume, run through 3 rivers and roll about in the mud! Not very often. Then to top it all there was beer and crisps at the end!!
I’m sort of sad it was the last race for this year. I’m definitely on for the series next year, I wonder if they’ll let me wear fancy dress for all nine?!?!
