Day171/365

The Sunchase a relay team event running/ walking the 117 miles of  The Mendip Ring. Two teams the hares and the tortoises  starting at Burrington Combe and aiming to make it back before sunrise on the longest day of the year 21st June.
I was on team tortoise "I would rather be a fast tortoise than

a slow hare" and had two legs to run, Leg 11 East Woodland Church to Limerick Farm and Leg 14 Faukland to Charlton.
Leg 11 7.5 miles was ran with Tracey Holborne, we ran a nice steady pace hampered only by the heat & one field of young steers who wanted to join the chase. The begining of the run was overgrown with stinging nettles and brambles and a couple of stretches were on some dangerous main roads but apart from that with most long grass cut for hay and silage a comfortable run with views towards Westbury white horse. Leg 14 took myself and Adrian Holborne from the Faukland Inn along a bridal way all the way to Foxcote. Across some pasture land and then woodland trails and paths to Writhlington. Along Knobsbury Lane down past Huish a House and back on the trail to Kilmersdon the home of the nursery rhyme. Up Jack and Jill Hill and then along the lane to Haydon, back into the fields and along the trail where a crazed squirrel fell out the hedge scrawling around our feet, I think maybe we had frightened it and it had stung itself in the face. Through a field planted with wheat then back through woodland running alongside a river to Charlton. Here we handed over the baton to be carried over 3 more legs through the night to get to Beacon  Batch before sunrise. Leg 14, 6 miles not much cooler than this afternoon, 13.5 miles ran today in total.