Month: October 2018
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Beachy Head: first marathon for five years, first Beachy for ten
I took the notion to enter Beachy Head a year ago, after marshalling the 2017 event. I hadn’t done a marathon for a while, and hadn’t done Beachy since 2008. The 2017 day was fine, the runners who passed me were in high spirits. I should join them, I thought. Training began in July. I…
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Two weeks (or less) to Beachy
With less than two weeks to go to the Beachy Head marathon, I went to the first cross-country event of the 2018-19 season of the East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League, held at the beautiful Snape Wood course near Wadhurst. It’s a two-lap course with some challenging hills that I’ve run before. Murphy's Law dictates…
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Lewes Downland 10, 2018
It’s been so long, as Sigmund Freud is supposed to have said to Mrs Freud, when she came back from staying with her mother. Never mind, what’s past is past. What’s the current situation? Beachy Head marathon is in less than three weeks, my first marathon for five years, and my first Beachy for ten.…