This event from South Cave, near Hull is one I thought I had done maybe three or four times. I was a bit surprised when I checked to find I had already done it six times. It din't feel that often.
What keeps me coming back ? It's s not a long drive to get there - two hours, it's cheap £18 (and for that you get some well stocked checkpoints, a basic meal at the end and a good bag containing the usual lovely badge. It is a very friendly event, the marsalls are all very encouraging and the route is very runnable (if you have trained well and I hadn't !)
It was the usual route card
The start was a little different to what it had been in 2020, we started a little further into the route and they had cut a bit of the route out for some reason.
There was the usual queue of runners at one of the early gates
The first 5 miles were into the slightly cold breeze but it was nothing that slowed me down - my approach to this was slow and and steady and enjoy the countryside and the pretty villages.
At 6.5 miles the 27m and the 17m routes split and it gets much quieter on the 27m route. The hills start as well and the route takes us up a typical Wolds
valley.
On top of the Wolds it was lovely with the birds singing, the sun came out, you could see for miles. It was just great to be out !
I reached the 19m point in under four hours which is good for me at this event. But then there is a very long drag where my motivation dropped considerably and it was slow progress. It picked up a bit after that and I was coming to Brantingham, one of the prettiest parts of the route. Melanie was there waiting for me, which was a lovely boost.
