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The trail running scene in rural England is legit! Showed up for a Wednesday night series race in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE and there were 150 people on the start line. 

Everyone belongs to a local running club (Wrekin Harriers, West 4, Shropshire Shufflers, Whitchurch Whippets, Mercia Fell Runners, …) and they’re all proudly wearing their club kit. 

I know it’s going to be a good race when I’m anaerobic within the first 200 Meters and the race goes straight uphill for the first two miles. After that there’s some so steep it’s scary descending on something that definitely isn’t a trail followed by more technical and steep uphill and a handful of sheep gates to climb over or through. Throw in a bit of mud, cow and sheep crap everywhere, and more insanely steep downhill and non existent trails and it’s done. 

Afterwards one of the race volunteers invited me to his house at 9:30pm for a ‘spot of tea and some jam on toast’ to finish off a great evening.

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