W6 Run 3 nearly a disaster but OK in the end

[mgrds]

So the first of the continuous 25 min runs is in the bag. But my mood was very distracted from celebration.

I decided for this run to take a break from my usual hilly routes from home so took a short drive to a local canal in the valley below.

I locked the car and set off with Laura's encouraging "You can do this ringing in my ears" At the half way point I turned to run back (anyone else always look forward to the half way bell - hearing it always lifts me) But my lift turned to worry as I felt the pocket of my running shorts . There was no car key there. There was a hole in the pocket!

I was sure it had probably dropped through near the car - and it was near moorings and a popular visitor spot.

I kept running back scanning my eyes over the two path as I went, - but visions filled my head of someone finding the key near my car and just driving off in it.

I reached the car not having found the key. I started to search in and round the cars . I was torn between going back along the canal and staying near my car.

Then the heavens opened. Now its one thing running in the rain but another thing standing cold and miserable in a downpour with just shorts and a tee locked out of you car !

I phoned home and asked my wife to drive down (with my spare key) which she could not find. As I considered to search within sight distance of my car so I could keep an eye on it.

Then I spotted it - I soaked small piece of paper with some scrawled on it tucked under the windscreen - someone had found my key and kindly kept it and left me a description of where thy were parked ! Phew ! I retrieved my key and was able to drive home !

So yes I became a "runner" - but not without event !

[mezziejay Graduate]

I’m always scared of losing my house key ! I tie it to the inside of my leggings and can never get it loose ! You should see me opening my front door 😂😂

[GoGo_JoJo Graduate]

Brilliant end to what could have been a truly awful day! It's one of the reasons I hate taking the car to run, lost keys or coming back to damaged car but life is full of risk and the running rewards are many and usually worth it! 👍🏻😁

[sally1993]

Oh wow! Thank god someone saved the key for you that must have been so stressful.

Congratulations on getting it done! X

[acountrycabbage Graduate]

One to remember, clearly! Well done for getting through it and thank goodness for the kindness of strangers 🥰

[Birdlady64 Graduate]

That's one to remember. Thankfully it turned out ok in the end.

I had a similar experience on week 6 run 2 when I arrived home minus my front door key! 😱

It was the spare key - just a single Yale type key, not on a key ring - that I used to tuck into the security pocket of my shorts and having run through woodland there was no point in going back to try and find it.

Thankfully hubby was at home to let me in. And amazingly I did get my key back!!

Someone found it whilst litter picking on the very far side of the wood and posted it in the lost and found section of a local neighborhood forum!!

The kindness of strangers indeed!🙂

[carolinestanford Graduate]

Wow - you did very well just to keep going with all that going on 😊

[nowster Graduate]

Eek! 😱