Category: Races
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To High and Over
Yesterday I ran to High and Over and back, a short run of just over an hour, as prescribed by the training programme. Since I’d held last Sunday’s long run over to Monday, I have a better weekly total mileage than usual, 23.83 miles. Next weekend, the August bank holiday, will be a three-run affair,…
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A week of two races: Bexhill 5k, Friston Forest 5 mile
On Wednesday, with several other Seaford Striders and a new pair of running shoes attached to my feet, I went to Bexhill for the Bexhill 5K, the last in their series of three summer evening races, and, unlike the other two, part of the Sussex Grand Prix. We could see Eastbourne Pier burning across the…
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The road to hell revisited: the Phoenix 10k
Last night I ran the Phoenix 10k, Spanish plumes notwithstanding, in my fastest time for nearly eighteen months. I hope this may represent a return to form. It’c certainly better than the 60+ minutes I’ve been recording since over the distance more recently, though those were nearly all on hillier courses. The Phoenix 10k is…
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Brighton 10k 2013
The past months, since the Newick Will Page 10k at the end of August, have been filled with doubt and sorrow on the matter of my knee. At one point my GP was contemplating steroid injections. In recent weeks, for no clear reason, it seemed to improve, and I have been back at Seaford Striders…
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The Newick Will Page 10k
What could be more agreeable, on a bank holiday weekend, than to run 10k through wooded lanes, past a field of llamas and deer coexisting happily over a gently undulating course like this? This was my first race since the Lewes 10k in April. In the event my knee was fine until the precise moment…
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Chichester 10k: giving my Bottom nightly
The first race of 2013, and the first of the twenty that comprise the Sussex Grand Prix, is the Chichester Priory 10k. I had never run it before and, as it is my intention to enter such races this year, and as my marathon training programme called for a 10k round about this time of…
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Crowborough 10k and the Rubicon
The Crowborough 10k has a certain reputation. Usually the last event of the Sussex Grand Prix, and taking place in early December in the highest town above sea level in the whole of Sussex, it can be cold. Indeed, in 2010 the race had to be cancelled because of snow and ice, and an attempt…
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The Hove Prom 10k
It’s very easy to write about Hove. Mention gentility once or twice, recycle the old ‘Hove actually’ anecdote and add a paragraph about the relationship with Brighton, not forgetting to use the word ‘louche’ to describe the latter. If space permits, throw in Keith Waterhouse’s ‘looks like a town helping the police with their enquiries’…
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The John Faulds Hellingly 10k
Today I ran my first race since the Glasgow injury. It was hard and hilly, but I finished. This is one of the Sussex Grand Prix races, and one I had never done before; as I have tried this season to do races that were new to me, it fitted perfectly. But I only returned…
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Juneathon the sixth: the Worthing 10k
When I entered the Worthing 10k, I thought to myself that nothing could be more agreeable than a seaside 10k on a June evening. In the evening, the heat of the day would have abated, and I would run a strong race, watched by admiring bathing beauties, compelled to leave their sunbathing to watch my…