Training Log Archive: Thraws

Last-minute last holiday walk. Jan's idea and route. Houghton Forest, Stammers Wood, Great Down, Baycombe Wood, Rewell, Tortington Common, Arundel Park, Houghton, Whiteways Lodge. Complete with coffee and christmas cake at Arundel.

Event: SO SOG A8 Chailey Common, between Haywards Heath & Newick
 

Wow, felt even better at the start than I did at Steep Down. That's not bad for a first run of the year. After disappointment in the mud at this event twelve months ago, I was a little bit more careful, although my legs just wanted to motor. Controls were generally highly visible so you just had to make sure you kept contact through the 'green' part of the leg. We seemed to visit each part of the map in turn and I came a bit unstuck in the tricky south east bit as I couldn't identify the mapped paths. Lost almost three mins here. Would have been a canny result otherwise. Very wet and muddy day.

Well, I felt so good at Chailey I decided I'd do another hard run in the evening. And that was quick too. My xmas/new year regime seems to have been spot on.

Clockwise circuit of PP from southern end. It's been a while.

Exceat, South Downs Way over Seven Sisters, Birling Gap, Beachy Head, SDW to Long Down, East Dean, Friston Forest. Brisk but cold walk with Jan through the best of Sussex, to see what was all dark back in October.

No problems. Bit cold though.