This week has been better. My knee still hurts, but is stronger. I ran three times:
- on Wednesday, with the Striders, though I ran on my own for a short 3 miler
- on Friday evening, again a short outing in the evening, when I encountered Santa’s sleigh as it visits the streets of Seaford.
- today, the December event in the East Sussex Cross Country League at Newplace Farm. To know more about this, read on.
Newplace Farm is a huge house and estate near Framfield. In mist and dankness, this race is cross-country as it should be, nearly five miles around the perimeters of muddy fields. It’s cross-country as it was in school, when the masters sent us out over frozen fields around Cambridge, while they sat in their cars, smoking, passing a hip-flask around, and speculating lubriciously about the trebles in the school choir. It’s challenging terrain, muddy, tussocky, but with no big hills. But the mud was nowhere near as bad as last year, and I was three whole minutes faster by my watch, though I await the official times.
I am encouraged.
Total mileage this week: 11.91 miles
70 days till the Brighton Half.
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