Thursday Night Hen

The clocks had changed, and we would finally do our ThursdayNight Hill sessions on the trails again! Not that we necessarily were kept away from these in the dark, but now we could finally do a trail session in comfort. But as lovely as it was, that was not the emphasis of the night. One of our regular runners, Lucy, was about to get married, so this was a bit of a hen night run. 

On the parking lot where we gather she was given a veil, an ‘L’ plate (this is a British tradition), a ‘bride to be’ tiara and a sequinned clutch. And then we set off. We went north of the lake. And the second time we stopped to regroup, Lucy was told to open the clutch and get a piece of paper out. They all had tasks on them. This task was column run backwards for one minute. So she did! Which turned out to be surprisingly tiring.

Hen having to run backwards 

I think we improvised the route a bit. We had to see how much time would be taken up by the tasks, and we had to be back by eight as we would go for a pizza afterwards, and had a reservation. So we just ran around in the vicinity of the quarry. It's beautiful there!

Steep bit

Lucy got a lot more tasks. Such as high-fiving everyone, do squats or push-ups, dance for one minute to "Dancing Queen", et cetera. It was good fun!

Low sun

Even lower sun

Then we got back to the parking lot. Some people went home, but we had to tables’ worth of pizza eaters. I don't really like eating this late, but I had been strong-armed into joining by some of the runners who had been there on Tuesday. And it is nice to spend time with lovely people.

I hope Lucy will have a lovely wedding. At least she seemed quite chuffed with her hen night run!