running 50:00 [2] 4.0 mi (12:30 / mi)
Another expedition to find the pink trig point, this time armed with better information. Success, but I'm not surprised I didn't find it last time, surrounded as it is by nettles and brambles and hidden in head high bracken. I must have been within 30 metres on Thursday but I didn't know it was next to the wall. It would have been easier if the OS had put it on top of the hill, but they didn't.
Runningwise this was pretty dire - heart rate all over the place even when going downhill, without any sign of it settling down.
Caught in a very heavy cloudburst which was quite pleasant really, took my mind off my struggles. Sunny again within 10 minutes.
Wildlife notes : Saw a weasel on Tongue Lane - it nearly ran under my feet, panicked and continued to try to run under my feet for several yards.
Saw a dead deer next to the ring road - I was shuffling along looking at my feet trying desperately to keep moving then suddenly there was a dead deer next to my feet, looking up at me. Made me jump.