A slower version

The Speed At Last post gives the details, but here is the more long-winded version for those of you who enjoy the photographs.

I ran from my parents place again… and on a wet & windy day.  Add to this that Kim and I had eaten out with friends both Friday & Saturday nights and you might get a sense why I would have preferred to have stayed drinking tea with my folks.

I ran out of the top of Woodingdean, over towards Kingston but sticking to the top of the scarp slope until the yellow brick road took me down into the mud above Rodmell.

Here I came across the Uckfield Scouts out in training for the Overland Hike, which I myself competed in a few times when I was a Boy Scout, 30 years ago!

After a steep dip down Mill Hill and a sharp rise up Fore Hill, I headed on down to Telscombe Tye and the coast road I ran along last week.

It seemed too early to head back up the Falmer Road so I dropped down onto the Undercliff walk and ran to Ovingdean… where I’m sure Cliff would have been disappointed as I walked gently up the stairs.

I ran up the Ovingdean valley, pausing to pay my respects to my mate Ric at the church, then headed up the steep hill and left along the track to Mount Pleasant.  This track leads up to the Scout Hut in Woodingdean and my first school and on he way I managed to catch up with a guy out for the second run of the year… doing pretty well.

And that was that, results as previously stated… and then tea with my folks!

Postscript: I’ve run with Stuppsy a few times and we were fairly evening matched… but though our Sunday runs this week lasted pretty much the same time, he ran 14.35 miles in 2.17 against my 12.8 miles in 2.20… BOO HA!  Good on yer Phil!