The mild weather clearly could not last for ever and finally ended yesterday… this morning there were seasonal ice-covered puddles along the road. Thus my longs and other warm gear were retrieved from the bottom of the drawer and replaced by my shorts, which I dare say will not now be seen until the Spring.
I started out on the normal muddy tracks… it obviously wasn’t quite so cold in the woods, though it certainly felt as if it was. Surprisingly though, once out of the shade it was super-warm, no I didn’t feel over-inclined to remove either of my layers!
When I reached Wivelsfield I decided to run on the road for a change. I ran through the village for a way then turned up Hundred Acre Lane. Half way along there I paused to take a photo of the landscape just as a beautiful old car drove past, honking it’s horn at me in a good natured way.
Rather than return to the mud I ran to the other end of the lane and turned right along Middleton Common Road (or similar) which took me right back into Burgess Hill. The houses along Folders Lane have changed so dramatically over the past few years, with plots being subdivided to form a series of small cul-de-sacs, or pairs of new houses. Some of these are actually of a more contemporary design, unlike the hundreds of boring cardboard rabbit hutches that the mainstream house-builders have foisted on the town recently, with seemingly little push-back from the planners. Burgess Hill could so easily have been a beacon for contemporary & sustainable design, but instead its design standards appear firmly rooted in the last century.
According to Strava I completed 7.2 miles in 65 minutes, an average of 6.65 mph.
