New sport- race the delivery van

[Cowladyrunning]

I set out this morning for an easy 5k and was merrily hopping over all the mud on the road from maize harvest (not our farm - we road brush - halo glowing😂) when I saw a Sainsbury's van coming towards me. Ooops. I flagged him to stop and asked if he was going to @#34& farm ?" Yes. Oh whoops - I thought you were coming at 11. I'll turn round and follow you back. He set off and I pegged it - knowing my daughter was still asleep! I decided to short cut across the fields that the same muddy neighbour had just ploughed but luckily they were power harrowed so they were smooth ready for sowing. It was downhill so I flew across the field, my trainers getting heavier and heavier -then over the stile (it is a footpath) into our field - nice bit of grass to clean trainers off but also cattle foot holes. Carefully picking my way but still running, I managed to get back as he was opening the doors to unload 😂 He was quite impressed by how fast I covered the mile he just travelled!!!

[Shake-and-run Half Marathon]

very impressive, your legs will be well trained across fields from chasing stock (may be?)

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to Shake-and-run]

😂

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles]

Crikey you must have been fast! Good that you got there in time 😁

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to SueAppleRun]

Probably looked like a cartoon character where the legs go round and round - the downhill helped 😂 plus our farm drive is long and rough so he went very slow down it!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Oh wow! What a lark!!! Great job 👏👏👏

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

I love this! Sounds great fun 🤗

I bet the driver will tell this story to everyone!

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

I thought that!!

[Week7 Half Marathon]

Are you going to try a person versus horse event next? I look forward to the announcement on the Friday Pompom post!

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to Week7]

🤣 I have looked at that race in the past and do admit I'm interested 😂

[Beachcomber66 Administrator Half Marathon]

That is funny! I wonder if the driver is the type to speed up if this happens again, or would he back off a bit to give you a fair chance of “winning”?

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to Beachcomber66]

His van may fall apart if he speeds up on our farm track I'm afraid 🤣

[Cmoi Marathon]

Love the picture you conjure up Cowladyrunning 🚚🏃‍♀️

Don't know any farmers who road brush round here. I ran a seriously muddy and mucky stretch of road yesterday, drove it a couple of hours later. Much preferred the running!

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to Cmoi]

Most will try and at least scrape the road here - just the odd few who don't. We have a hill on our dairy farm drive that needs to be mud free for the milk tanker to get up so we got a brush!

[misswobble Marathon]

Well done you! 😀💪🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ Nothing like a challenge to get us going 😁. I bet that felt epic! 👏

I chickened out of a field crossing on Saturday. It looked vile 😁

I thought about you last weekend when I was amid cows 🐄 when I found a farm selling raw milk. I stopped to get some, and as it was being pumped into my bottle, I wondered if the vending machine was attached to the cow standing outside 🐄😁. There was a gaggle of people watching so … 😁. I’d like to think so 🥰. Lovely stuff😋🥛

[Cowladyrunning Marathon in reply to misswobble]

Ah wow that's brilliant. We drink raw milk but can't sell it raw as we are always down with TB here in Wales sadly. Like the thought of the cow pumping straight into the vending machine 😂

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Cowladyrunning]

😂. I ventured into rural Derbyshire yesterday and managed to get another bottle 🥛🐄😀. It’s available closer to home but the farmer is so busy it’s hard to find him in 🙂

[skysue16 Half Marathon]

Great story, made me smile - very impressive run 😀👍