Day6 to Hexham

A overcast start with a gut busting 1m steady climb back up onto Hadrian's military road.

The clouds darkened, the rain came & slowly increased in intensity. A stop at Homestead (a roman garrison ruin) saw us huddling in the cafe scoffing pasties and warm tea. 30mins of waiting for the rain to ease we gave up resumed a soggy jog. The weather decided we'd not had enough wet stuff; it turned up the dial. Visabilty dropped to a few 100m, the splashes bounced 3" back off the road & soon formed rivers 2" deep running down the hills we climbed and 6-8" deep in the dips. Unreal is the only way to describe the feeling; we were laughing & shouting at the clouds; and were then cover in spray from passing cars and trucks (crazy)

5m outside Hexham, our penultimate town, we meet up with Olympic 800 & 1500m runner Steve Cram (pic to come). We jogged on with him and then had a race around the 400m track with his partner Alison.

To wrap up a surreal day, a music and dance troop gave us a masked performance of a dream like circus, trackside: all quite bizarre, but great all the same. (Pic to come).

(No pic yet due to the rain)

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