Wednesday was the District Explorer Mini Moonlight. Congregated at Parbold and sorted teams eventually coming up with a crack squad of myself, Tom, Caleb, Rob & Dundee topically (and possibly controversily) named team 'Mohammed'! Check point was the Black Bul up near Mawdesley so we set off, up and over Parbold hill and down towards Wrightington before going round the eastern flank of the hill and then heading NW towards Mawdesley. Got to the checkpoint with no lives lost and quite a good entrance, coming out of somebody's gates across the road from the pub! Followed a similar route back but new we were going to be cutting it fine on time. We had to be in for 9.30, we crossed Stoney Lane just before this and were proceeding to leg it towards the church ploughing through whatever was in front of us.

I was in front and came to a drystone wall, I immeidietely jumped on top of it without thinking, I felt it begin to crumble below and fell to the ground on the other side amongst the rubble of the now destroyed wall. That was quite possibly one of the most painful moments of my life, I physically felt my knee bend the wrong way and something pop in the joint when I intially landed on it, I then, lying on the floor pressed it and felt something clck back into place, which caused further agony. Apparently according to the others it looked as if I'd fallen down a whole or something from behind. With the help of the rest of the team I managed to get to my feet although unable to flex or put any weight on my leg. We made our way through about 30m of dense bracken before reaching another wall at which point i decided I wasen't going to be able to make it the 500/600m back to the finish, this was really annoying as I reckon we were probably still winning at this point. Sent Tom and Caleb to go and get some help from the finish while I lay on another wall writhing in pain being consoled by Dundee and Rob. Help arrived soon in the form of Ricko, Leigh and a very smartly dressed Mark. The biggest problem was going to be getting me out of there so after looking for something to splint my leg with, to no avail Ricko convinced me that it was probably one of those times to call and ambulence. Soon after two parimedics and Carrington appeared with a backboard (solid stretcher). First they gaave me some gas, I can't remember exactly what it was but it had laughing gas in it and it was dam good! The guys then proceeded to carry me back to stoney lane over numerous fields, ditches, barbed wire fences and collapsed drystone walls. Respect to all of you!

Diagnosis at the hospital was that no fractures could be seen from the X-rays however there was a lot of internal bleeding around the joint and it was still too painful to see what damage, be it cartilige or ligament is actually done. Apparentely got to take it easy for a few weeks, on crutches for at least 3 and can't put weight on it for that amount of time aswell. At the moment its quite a novelty but I'm sure that will wear off!

Thanks to everybody for all their concern, been swamped with text messages, calls, e-mails and facebook posts in the last day!