Day 166 Thursday 14th June 8.8 miles : miles to date 1116.4 The last few days runs dictated a slower one was on the cards for me tonight. I was a little hesitant to turn up at the club, as Thursdays are normally 8 mile plus, cross country tempo runs. I just knew I had to rest the pins and would have been happy to let the lads go. Fortunately for me, the recent wet weather has caused an explosion in the fields and the route we took was very overgrown in places. As a result, we ended up running a much more social run, chatting all the way and putting the world to right, as only a bunch of blokes can do. Still, at least we were sober albeit the conversation was still the same, just not so slurred. We were without any female input, so it was the usual discussions about wine, women and song for 95% of the run. We wasted the other 5% talking religion, politics and economic recovery. Having moved onto such important issues, Jody Buczynski decided to take the long cut back to base near to home, taking us right down into the basin of Ampthill Park, which meant we of course had to climb up the other side. We all thanked him for that and reminded him that we had run up the same hills thirteen times on Tuesday. All we were missing was a few beers. Mind you, at the end of the run we looked as if we had been to the pub, as we smelt, were disheveled and didn't make any sense at all.