My story relates to a marathon training run with she who must be obeyed. As normal swmbo considered the OS map before going out and got the route implanted in her head....I had a look at the map but as swmbo was sure of the route that's all I did.
(Schoolboy error admitted!)
We were staying in a
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So at about 8am we set out along the road, and then over hill and dale....without the map. Needless to say we soon took a wrong turn in a woodland section and got completely lost running across fields of cattle, aiming for the sound of a road.
The plan had been to do a 20 miler/3 hour run so when we got to 3 hours we stopped. By this time we were close to a road but had no idea what road it was. We began to walk and reached the road in a few minutes. There were no signs to assist so swmbo confidently guessed left...naturally we found that to be wrong when we came across a sign on the road which forced an expletive or two and an about turn!
Luckily the road took us back into town. By this time the sun was over the yardarm and we were frazzled. I had some change on me and as we got to the town square went straight to an ice cream van and bought us a couple of ices.
It had taken us 1 hour 20 mins to walk from where we'd had to turn around in the road. By the time we got back to the
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The only good thing about the day was that it had been dry and not wet!
Funny thing is up until recently I still relied on swmbo sorting out our directions!