Sunday, 3 May 2015

A long run in the marshes along part of the Wherryman's Way - What could possibly go wrong?

With a 15 mile run to be done, in an unplanned manner I found the Wherryman's route whilst exploring the nooks and crannies of Reedham Village, so I thought why not and promptly headed out along the marshes following the route towards Great Yarmouth with an aim of getting to the Berney Arms train station, before then finding why way back to civilisation - as you see from my photos below I never found it despite being very near to it according to sign post.
 
It rained for most of the run, and in not finding the train station I continued onwards getting more and more lost with low cloud reducing visibility across the marshes, to a point I found myself in the most unexpected of places, the A47 on what is known as the Acle Straight, and is a very busy road with no grass verge and ditches one side, and thankfully a wide grass verge on the other side - still I would be running along this for at two miles being hit in the face by spray from 60mph lorries - nice not.

To add to matters the charge on my phone had gone but thankfully a caravan was in the lay by and helped me by allowing me to borrow their phone to contact family as I was close to an hour late, and request to be "rescued" at a closed restaurant / pub that was formerly known as the Stracey Arms.

I am knackered but a plus point was wearing the backpack for the duration, and because I had bagged everything inside it in plastic shopping bags, nothing got wet, other than me.......






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