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I got out last night, my eldest was on a Scout evening at Hatfield Forest. So I thought I'd get a run in.
I hadn't quite thought it through just how dark it was going to be. My son even said " Are you sure you want to do this?"

Yeah why not.
Lets just say apart from 20 Scouts who played games practically in the car park, I was the only nutjob in the forest. Well the only person, damn I never knew there were so many critters there.
By day you are lucky to see anything, by night every bush had at least one set of glowing eyes peering out. There were more deer there than I had thought.
Seeing a badger (alive) up close was pretty cool.

It was a little eery.

I managed just under 5 miles but had then had enough. It didn't help that 2 mins into the run I remembered just how slippery a board walk gets when wet. Shame I hadn't remembered before my foot touched it.
I went down like a sack of ****. My hip doesn't like me today.

Still it was an experience.