su 28 oc 07

901  Alfred the Great died

Now we do know that cross country is supposed to be muddy, but so muddy that competitors were going back after they'd finished to try and find their shoes!  ... and of course on the mere not all that brown stuff is mud.  The usual huge field for the Fram Flyers' annual cross country set off on a mild but miserable day and soon surged round the course to cause a sizeable queue to get over the narrow style onto the bridge bringing them back to the castle.  Particularly nasty was a patch of mud in the castle moat just before the runners had to go up the steep footpath out of the moat.  To make it more fun for the tail enders it started to rain heavily but the marshals, officials and us stayed in place to see this lady Stowmarket Strider home as last finisher.