Running muddy miles or pounding the clean pavements? As always, come and share your weekend triumphs and woes below the line
Somehow, through either bad or excellent planning, depending on your point of view, I have managed to avoid any cross country races until this weekend. Then, like buses, they all arrive at once: Saturday just gone was the Surrey XC Champs, and next Saturday is the Surrey league. To add insult to injury, both take place in Lloyd Park. I’m sure I will manage to offend some Croydon natives but god, it’s not my favourite place to run. Mud, mud, hideous mud, nothing quite like it for making a run a slog ...
Not feeling great myself, I treated Saturday’s race as a recce for next weekend (which somewhat blows my excuses for that one, I suppose). My recce revealed mud, hills and that Croydon hosts a sport called disc golf. The website’s claim to have “18 beautiful holes” is .. well.. anyone got an email for Trading Standards?
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