On Saturday morning I hit the Asda in High Wycome early, at 7:30 in the morning parking wasn’t a problem, I got the weekend’s food and then filled up with diesel. This left me with just the right amount of time to meet up with Ed and go run the Wycombe Park run. The weather was great for running, as usual Ed beat me, I didn’t expect to do well as I’ve not been consistently training, never-the-less I managed 22:21 and cam second in my age category. Edward came 6th overall (in a field of 472) how does he do it?
After showing we went for breakfast at Sainsbury’s and then in the afternoon headed to Wyatts Covert Caravan Club Site in Denham. This is close to the airfield and you do get some disturbance from departing and arriving planes, but its not too bad. In the evening Jo and her boyfriend – Daz – came for dinner. Daz lives 10 minutes away from the campsite which was lucky as I had not booked it because of that.
Dinner was pulled pork fajitas, very easy to cook as the pork is cooked in the oven, the tortillas as warmed in the oven, and everything else is served cold. The only issue is the size of the table with 4 people and all that food made it very difficult to eat! After dinner we played poker – which was great fun. Ed stayed in the van with me, in the drop down bed – which he found very comfortable.
Sunday
After breakfast we walked to Denham railway station, a 25 minute walk in the crisp clear sunshine. Archie always enjoys a good train journey. We went to Jo’s flat first, Archie was going to stay there over lunch so he had to meet the cats. The cats were interested in Archie – Archie was interested in the cat food. We popped out for some beers at The Dog House – a local dog friendly pub, then back to drop Archie off to babysit the cats. We were heading to Ping-Pong at St Katherine’s docks as they have an all-you-can eat Sunday menu and we love their dim-sum. Amy Wallace, Ed’s gorgeous girlfriend, joined us for lunch and we ordered and ate as many pork puffs, spring rolls and other yummy things as we could. After lunch I picked Archie up and we headed back to Denham, I dropped Ed off and went back to spend the night before I had to head off back to the Midlands having had a great weekend.