Day 249/365

Uphill to Wells 29 miles only two weeks away. Out the door at 6am not quite light so had my head torch on ran down the Pack horse trail and around the edge of Edford Woods before hesding through the disused Quarry to Stoke Saint Michsel. Met a couple of ladies with two dogs one lady got her dog on the lead but the other just let hers run and yap all around me, saying he wont hurt you love. After getting bit on the bum only a few weeks ago I just stood there for what must have been 3 or 4 mins till they went their way. Carried on along the footpaths and trails through Harridge woods and Edford woods Zig zagging my way through the fields towards Coleford. Bottom of Coleford I ran through a field with a right mixture of cattle, they all seemed pretty docile even though there wss calfs at foot amongst them. As I ran through a calf was startled by me and took off into a copse, I now found myself between it and the mother who was not hsppy. She started snorting and hesding in my direction, I luckily got behind a tree and she went to the other side pursuing her young. Headed through Holcombe woods and along Snails Bottom towards Charlton where I picked up the #Jack n'Jill route, halfway round at about 13 miles I tripped and went down splat! I smashrd my knee as I went down on a rock which didnt seem to bad at the time but as I ran on became very sore. Continued on around the Jack n'Jill route and then headed bsck to Holcmbe. Steady supply of jelly babies every mile and brought extra fluids which kept energy levels up, started to struggle at mile 21 but msnaged to push myself slong snother 2 miles to 23 miles in 4:46mins with average pace of 12:21 mins/mile.