The annual Henfield Seven Stiles event is a West Sussex Fun Run League fixture but open to all. Organised in conjunction with Henfield Leisure Centre it features a 1 mile race at 10:15 and the main 4 mile race at 11:00.

The main race numbers are restricted to 500 so please apply early using the link to the entry form below

New for 2018

1. Learning from last years toilet queues we will have additional portable toilet facilities this year
2. Registration/Late Entries administration has been reviewed and will be upgraded, including a separate ‘Club Entries’ desk in order to improve efficiency and relieve congestion
3. A new access road is being built in June/July with additional parking behind the Leisure Centre. This may be completed by race day, but it also may still be under construction. The Start/Finish area routing for the main race may need to be changed in line with the impact this has on the existing route out of the playing field, and in accordance with any safety concerns. For obvious reasons (meaning that the exact disruption isn’t known until they start construction!) this will be done close to the day and will be clearly marked. The rest of the route will be unaffected
4. For the same reason the Junior route will also be diverted and as such will be partly a new route. Again this will be clearly signed and closely marshalled

The 4 mile route is a mostly flat off road run along trails that run via the Downslink and beside the Adur River, starting and finishing at Henfield Leisure Centre

A feature of this event is that we will issue a medal to all finishers of BOTH races – we like medals and we know that you do too!

Also – cake and refreshments will be on sale within the Leisure Centre this year – we know you like cake too!

For an application form please click here: Seven stiles entry form 2018

Seven Stiles Junior Route

Seven Stiles Main Route

I suggest this route on Saturday in our continuing quest for bluebells. It’s only about 10 miles and I think covers different ground from the previous 2 weeks. For the benefit of any PG runners, who would prefer a shorter run, we should be at the Lock Farm road junction at around 8.30am.

You can find the April Handicap results here. It has emerged that there are small errors in the January and March results, and these are now updated.  Jenny Backshall had an unreal ‘best previous time’ calculated, giving her an unusually demanding target time to beat.  In correction, her target time is corrected, and she earns an extra 2 points from each of those races.  Unfortunately Alison, Eb, Emma and Sian each lose one point to balance this.

As a consequence of the heavy rains in March, the April run was switched to the Winter route (except that Bob Wallace chose to follow the Summer route, and reported running along the wet river bank, between a high water level in the river, and flooded meadows alongside, as the land water was unable to escape into the river.)

For the present, the overall results show the summations using the conventional split between Winter and Summer routes.  Historically, there has not been a visible difference in timings between the routes.

—next Wednesday, Andy will timekeep the Handicap, as Chris shall be out, as a beginner, on the beginners’ course. Unless the predicted rain affects the course, we shall be using the SUMMER route, which you can find here as a refresher of the course.

I suggest we do the Convent run tomorrow morning, cutting across from the Bull. It’s about 12 miles and, although we are likely to get our feet wet at this point, if not before, it’s not far from home!

As many of you know, for those people not using Facebook we have a page on the website that links to the Facebook Group and allows all posts and images to be viewed, and this has proven a popular facility given the usage that page has received, according to the tracking statistics for the website.

Sadly, we have a problem with this that has just occurred. I repeat below the message that our provider has published. We are looking for a workaround but for the moment it is no longer possible to view the Henfield Joggers Facebook Group from this website :(.

Paul

We are now in the tapering period for people running the VLM and we’ve probably had enough hills for a while, so I suggest we do the Poynings run on Saturday. It’s just over 12 miles and there shouldn’t be extensive stretches of mud, although it could be muddy in places – less so if we run across the Common and through Woodmancote, rather than via Holedean Farm and Oreham Common.