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Wimbledon

Pepé must be thinking it is his birthday. Out twice on a few decent length runs in the same month.  Amazing. The last day of April was the end of the football/soccer season for the League One teams.  Oldham were away at AFC Wimbledon . I did add this to my general blog . According to Google maps the journey would be about 80 miles, mostly on the motorways but with a little bit at each end on ordinary road.  I set off about 0930 for a 1200 kick off.   The area where the ground is isn't totally unknown to me but the final bit was definitely in need of TomTom's assistance. I stopped to fill the tank at Tesco in Ashford. The French petrol from the Vimy run might have seen me get there and it may have been a few pence cheaper in South London but I wanted to be in and out after the game. The M20 and M26 were pretty peaceful. Cruising at an indicated 75mph and TomTom showing satellite speed at 70 was good enough for me. The M25 was its usual PITA. It was recently