Author: smoggypaul

This is the route for the coming Saturday – lets hope the weather is gorgeous eh! Meet at the Cat & Canary at 9am

Route 5th May

Hugh reckons this is about an 11 mile run and there is a possibility of seeing a few bluebells. Maybe. Can’t promise! (Editors Note: He delivered! Some wonderful bluebells. See below for the ‘alternative’ route that I took – see Comment!!!!)

4th May Route

This is a new Saturday morning group, aptly named the Fairweathers, started by

Alex and Katie and aimed at anyone wanting to cover no more than 4 or maybe 5 miles at a relaxed pace each Saturday, weather permitting, meeting at the Cat & Canary at 9am.

The inaugural run of the Fairweathers will be this Saturday 27th April, starting at nine o’clock at the Cat and Canary with a route going to Woodmancote place, probably about four miles.

There’s no need to ‘book in’ just turn up on Saturday. If you want to contact Alex and are on Facebook you can contact her at: https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.hart.547

Or call/text her at 07759 589920

The route will be from the Cat & Canary, up through Nep Town past the Gardeners, along the Lidds to Woodmancote Place/Church, then back via Henfield Common and Church Road.

Ilidia Campbell –   3:53:02

Jackie Parsons –  4:11:22

Terry Smith     –  4:38:35

If anyone else ran but didn’t put themselves down as a Henfield Jogger then let me know and I’ll update this, but well done everyone. And Terry did Brighton just the week before too, just as a warm-up! Anyone feeling inspired for next year???

Well done to everyone running yesterday – some very quick times indeed, especially Andy! A sub-3hr time only a fraction away, 82nd man home and 88th overall!

And a special mention to Terry who not only ran yesterday but also is running the London next week, his 25th consecutive London marathon!! Good luck from all of us Terry! And to Ben Haddrell who joined us in January, hadn’t been running very long, and agreed to accept the challenge of a Marathon only on 31st January – I hope that Ben will complete his blog telling us all of his experience!

Scores on the doors for people running as Henfield Joggers (There may be other Joggers running but not as Joggers, so if your time isn’t listed then just let make a Comment to this item and I will edit the text to insert you!):

Andy Massingale              03:02:26
Gary Wilkinson                 03:31:00
Dave English                   03:40:12
Ralph Bernascone            03:56:00
Marcus Dwyer                 04:05:44
Hugh Martin                    04:13:05
Natasha Heasman            04:28:34
Terry Smith                    04:41:04
Ben Haddrell                   05:11:19
Sarah Payne                   05:41:44
Lesley Besson                 05:53:49

Another great night at the Bell last night!  Thanks to all who came along to enjoy the eating, drinking and chatting.

We have decided to make the Bell our regular monthly meeting place. So whether you run the Handicap, an alternative route, or even if you don’t run at all – put the 1^st Wednesday of the month in your diary and come along.  Food is served from approx 8.30pm – or you are more than welcome to just join us for a drink.  We will of course send out reminders and check out who wants food a week or so before

A big well done to all who completed the Handicap Run last night, whether it was the summer or winter route – or those that did the ‘extended route’!!

Remember the pub runs start next week – Wednesday 10^th April .  Meet at The Bull Shermanbury at 7.00pm

See you there!

Liz & Gill

Thursday April 25th sees the ‘Running at the Speed of Chat’ girls making their usual outing to The Partridge Pub Quiz. A team of 6 is all that is required so are there more Joggers who would like to try this one? Pull together a team or two and book direct with The Partridge 01403 710391. Maybe see you there?

Gill

Saturday 30th March saw a small group of us leave village life and venture into Brighton. The 17 Bus provided a nice catch-up time on the way down and many took advantage of some nice mooch time in Brighton before reconvening at Ten Green Bottles (www.tengreenbottles.com/wine-tasting-brighton) for our wine tasting. The atmosphere there was immediately welcoming and informal. Over a longer period than we anticipated we tasted 3 white and 3 red wines and discovered some delicious new gems that none of us had come across before. Learning had never been so much fun! Although there were only 7 of us, all thoroughly enjoyed and seemed enthusiastic about trying something different. The Brighton Food Festival provided some very welcome street food before the bus journey home – the latter somewhat noisier than on the way down!!

Gill

Well done to the 4 of us who competed in a cold and windy Lewes 10k on Easter Monday. Sadly Ben withdrew to protect an existing injury but Joyce, Brian T, Paul and Andy trotted around. I say trotted, but Andy positively RACED around and finished 10th overall out of 483 finishers, in a stonking 38:56! Bear in mind this is an offroad race with mixed terrain and a little (not much this year) mud too, what could he do on the flat? Worthing 10k Andy??? I don’t know when we had a better individual result!