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Summertime and the running is...warm!

26/6/2018

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The North Downs Run is an 30k event with a justifiable reputation for being well organised, well supported and good sweaty fun. The 2018 running was no exception.; but it is also accepted to be a tough one. This is not only because it often seems to coincide with hot temperatures and the start time inevitably means that the running takes place at the time of day usually reserved for “mad dogs and Englishmen” – it also goes up and down a fair bit.

Desperately clinging to the comfort of some shade at the start of the race with Adventure Daughter, it was clear that the distance running adage of start slowly and then go slower was the only way we were getting around this today. And so that’s what we did. Tagging along behind an obvious veteran running a metronome pace we traversed woodland, planted fields, fields with great biodiversity and occasional rural roads we reached the halfway point in good shape. At halfway was just one example of the great water and jelly baby stations along the route, supported by lots of cheerful volunteers.

We pressed on across fields, passing the Cock Inn where the crowd usually found at this point must have been distracted by the England display at football World Cup and up the infamous cricket pitch hill (in the picture).

We finished in just under 5 hours.

​My thanks to the organisers Istead and Ifield Harriers and to everyone who volunteered to make this day happen. I know there were another 500 plus runners but you made it feel like you were there just for us.

Photo Credit - thanks to Dawn Granger Photography www.dawngrangerphotography.co.uk/
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  • Blog
  • About
  • The Ticked List
  • The Original 60 ths
    • 1 Create a Website
    • 2 Stop Being an Employee
    • 3 Climb 60 Summits
    • 4 Climb a 6000m Peak
    • 5 The Great North Swim
    • 6 Raise Money for Charity
    • 7 A Rock Climb
    • 8 My Standard Run in in 60 min
    • 9 60 Beers
    • 10 60 Cakes
    • 11 Cycle the South Downs Way
    • 12 Visit Costa Rica
    • 13 Lyke Wake Walk
    • 14 60at60 Photo Exhibition
    • 15 Build a Firepit
    • 16 Cycle 60 Miles in a Day
    • 17 Kayak the Thames in the Dark
    • 18 Pick up 60 Bags of Litter
    • 19 60 Almond Croissants
    • 20 Climb Y Garn
    • 21 6 Must See Animals
    • 22 A Night at Caer Fran
    • 23 A Night at the Museum
    • 24 Jubilee Greenway walk
    • 25 Sort the Attic
    • 26 Dart River Swim
    • 27 The 60at60 Playlist
    • 28 See 60 Live Acts
    • 29 6 Must See Acts
    • 30 The London Eye
    • 31 Timeout Recommendation
    • 32 Lego Turns 60
    • 33 Messing about on a River
    • 34 Replicate a Photograph
    • 35 Open Uni Free Courses
    • 36 Plant Trees
    • 37 Read 6 Books (Again)
    • 38 The Pier Head
    • 39 The Grim
    • 40 Whittle a Spoon
    • 41 Camp by the Sea
    • 42 Write a Poem
    • 43 Compose a Song
    • 44 Volunteer
    • 45 RGS Young Explorers
    • 46 North Downs Run
    • 47 Swim in the Pacific
    • 48 Whitewater Rafting
    • 49 Make 60 Sandcastles
    • 50 Wellbeing in Nature
    • 51 Photo with A Celebrity
    • 52 Medway's Saxon Shore Way
    • 53 Eridge Park Trail Challenge
    • 54 Grib Goch by Moonlight
    • 55 A Multi Day Canoe Journey
    • 56 Cycle to Work
    • 57 Highest Points in Boroughs I've Worked
    • 58 Paint the Shed
    • 59 One as We Go
    • 60 Something about a New Year
  • Support a Charity
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