A Group July 15

Another day of absent friends. At 1040 there were only Jeff, Geoff and I at Hookwood but numbers finally climbed to six so we were outnumbered two to one by the E Sussex. Thanks to Mark for his gpx of previous runs which we followed out of Horley through Haroldslea Lane to Smallfield, then on to Bones Lane and the A22 to Felbridge. Here we nearly lost Jeff who had to be rescued from a headlong attempt to reach East Grinsted. At Weir Wood reservoir I abandoned tradition and turned left into Legsheath Road, scoring a couple of points by taking Jeff up a road previously untravelled which is quite hard to achieve. At Hindleap we turned right onto Twyford Lane descending through the woods to a ford and then on to Birchgrove and Horsted Keynes. I was later told of my near miss on the descent to the ford when a large deer emerged onto the lane behind me, of which I was blissfully unaware. After a pleasant and conversational lunch with the ESsx we returned via Sharpthorne to Turners Hill, Copthorne and Nutfield to make our way to Fanny's for tea. 42 miles from Hookwood at 13.5mph.

 Twyford Lane courtesy of Google Maps, and lunch at HK