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Graham Gristwood - Sting city

Sting city

Today I took part in a local race at Blackwood. I love living and training in the South East of England, but at this time of year the forests take on an entirely new appearance. Just towards the end of spring, suddenly huge fields of stinging nettles and other undergrowth…
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spring up making many forests and parks unusable (not just in the south east, but all over England). Then it becomes more difficult to train and you have to pick the training area carefully. Blackwood was mostly very nice, and I am sure the courses were planned to avoid the worst of the nettles, but I still managed to run through quite a lot of them, especially at the sides of the big open tracks. It is not always such a problem in an important race as thoughts of stings are superceded by the competitive spirit, but in a training…

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