March 2013

[Sweder]

Up at dawn to bash out a lively twenty miler over the Jog Shop 20 course.
Dry, cold, overcast with a wicked breeze and sticky underfoot, eight hardy souls set off into the east.

We took the cliff top trail to Saltdean, scaled the North Face, suffered a cruelly exposed Yellow Brick Road, scrambled up and down the Big W, crested Castle Hill, danced through Death Valley, slipped up the Snake, hammered out Reservoir Road, walked Windmill Hill and rode the gentle undulations from St Dunstans back to the Marina. 3 hours 5 minutes (plus drinks breaks), followed, for me, by a mile and a half pre-training warm-up with the Rookettes, all before midday. Legs were a lot better after a light running week, even the heartless W didn't hurt too much. Another couple of these before month's end and I'll be ready for Brighton.