A bit more running!

A church, a cathedral? No it's the crem!

We drove past Manchester's Southern Cemetary on Sunday. The schoolboy joke that I remember was that this is the dead centre of Manchester! The Crematorium was looking particularly impressive - this is a springtime photo which is the best time to look at it. This was the second crematorium in the country and was designed by Edward Salmons and A Steinthal (the first was built in Woking in 1885 where the first successful cremation was carried out on the body of a horse).

So, to the running,  we were on our way to and from the Stretford Parkrun. Pouring with rain it was! But it's a nice flat course and Vicky got her Parkrun all time PB of 31.26 - maybe Skip was anxious to get back out of the rain, but he pulled her through. I equalled this year's best of 19.51 so we were all happy. And a bottle of wine was thrust into my hand at the Cyrn Y Brain fell race the following day at the Horseshoe Pass. Harriers were there in force (well three of us were) and a certain symmetry applied as Vic and Emma won the over 55 prizes and I won the over 65 prize; the link was that in each case we beat the over 50's and over 60's! And here's technology for you - a Strava map of my progress round the park - the red line represents two circuits starting with the green circle, round the oval running track on the bottom right and two plus round the park finishing at the chequered flag (circle!)

The green shoes go quite nicely don't they.

And here's me in a red vest - I bet that's got you fooled! It was the first fixture of the Borders League series and, seeing as Denbigh do not participate in this seven race winter series, I run for Prestatyn. I haven't done any Borders League races for about 5 years but it was good to be back - apart from the fact that I just couldn't quite catch George (also of Prestatyn) who managed to win the V65 age group. I was gaining on him all the time but was a measly 5 seconds short at the end - another 100 metres and I'd have got him (I think!) You can see Autumn is drawing in as the leaves come tumbling down - a bit slippy in places.