I post late, and include a whole week's running in one post. It was a bad week, I missed Tuesday's speed session, being still tired from my long run and suffering from a cold, and also missed what was supposed to be a eight mile slow run last Wednesday. Instead I managed five mile and four mile runs on Thursday and Friday, and a long run yesterday. On Thursday I ran a route I hadn't tackled for a long time, up to the Newmarket plantation then back down to the A27 and home; on Friday I ran the perimeter of Stanmer Great Wood.
Yesterday's was something of an epic. I ran out along Seaford front, past the sailing club where people were clutching inviting glasses of white wine and to Newhaven. Here at Newhaven Fort there was a Battle of Britain event, with a fly-past by a Hurricane and a Spitfire, the day after a Hurricane crashed at Shoreham. I ran along the cliffs as far as Peacehaven, and then cut across by Newhaven golf club along a very overgrown path, to Piddinghoe, where I tried and failed once more to find the correct route for the Piddinghoe section of the Ouse Valley Way, which leaves the river for a short stretch. Rejoining the Ouse Valley Way I went north to the Southease bridge, and then onto the South Downs Way and up Itford Hill; on this run I climbed roughly 2000 feet. I went along the ridge to Firle Beacon, stopping to help a cyclist try to repair a broken gate and to give directions to another cyclist who wanted to know the way to Brighton. By now the strong wind had brought a weather front. The sky was dark and gloomy, like a winter afternoon, and as I neared home, it started to rain very slightly.
Time: 3:32:35
Distance: 18.5
Pace: 11.30 (best 7.55)
And on Thursday:
Time: 53:18
Distance: 5.14
Pace: 10.22 (6.18)
And Friday:
Time: 40:05
Distance: 3.99
Pace: 10.02 (best 7.00)
Total this week: 27.63
Six weeks till the Beachy Head Marathon
