recovery run no. 2

recovery run = easy run after race, usually just the first but this looks like being the second, of a series. long line of cars due to road works. try to look loose. feel looser than yesterday at least. followed up lane by rat runner. into woods, knackered. hills still twice as steep as usual. through woods to unhilly coach road. little mud, wind behind, can run now. stile. fields, soft, into wind, still running. tough up stony track and lane, always is. take breather at cattle-grid n’ gate, always do. lots of smoke from somewhere. back into rat run lane. rats. back into woods. joined by bouncy retriever. something fast is coming straight for us. side-step slender dog. slender dogs are not a worry. then owner cries NO in alarming way. slender dog is bouncy but not a worry. dogs bound away. then owner cries NO in even more alarming way... slender dog bounds past. we agree, could do with such energy. quick lap of woods then out. bound home, more or less, for more w and s. getting there.