"This hill's a runner"

A great run with Harry, Hester and Gavin yesterday around what Gavin and his local running chums call the Full Monty - an 18.5 mile undulating loop in the North York Moors starting out from Cold Kirby, near Sutton Bank, out and around Hawnby and then back. Although the North York Moors never go particularly high, the running over there is always fantastic with lots of gorgeous woodland and moorland trails and enough ups and downs into and out of little valleys to make for a fair whack of climb over the whole run come the finish - according to Strava it was 3,080 feet

So as to ensure we all pushed on and didn't take it easy at any stage, and without at all annoying Hester in any way what-so-ever (haha), I purposely announced at the foot of each and every hill that we came across that it was 'a runner' and that no walking was allowed, regardless of steepness. And yep, we ran 'em all.

Hester by the way has a North York Moors inspired art exhibition called New Ground coming up at the 'Inspired By' gallery in Danby in November so yesterday's run technically counted as inspiration soaking upping work for Hester too - she can offset the petrol cost on her tax return then.

The Full Monty

Harry fully primed and ready to rumble

Although Hester ran all the hills she walked the bridges

The hills are alive...........

Harry the wonder dog

If you look very carefully you can spot both Gav and Hester in this picture

Harry leading the way

Autumny with knobs on

The team putting the hammer down

Hazzer hacking round a corner.....

.... closely followed by Hester

Applying the brakes to fit into a picture by Hester

Not even this 'swinging' guy slowed us down - we speeded up a bit in fact

The H Team

Just one last hill to go and its job done