A couple of firsts for us this weekend. Our first experience driving in London and our first visit to the Bedgebury Pinetum. There was a 10km race through the forest, all on trails. It was a really great race, one of the best organised ones I've ever competed in. Everyone was split into 8 different waves, so even though there were a lot of people competing, it never felt busy, since you would only start with maybe 100 or so people at the most. The course was really well marked, with drink stations, and heaps of marshals around. I got the best entry shirt I have ever got at one of these events. The price was high for a running race, I mean parkrun does weekly races for free after all. But the quality of the course and the organisation was definitely worth it. It was a tough 10km as well, quite hilly, and a lot of the downhill sections were on really rough single track, so there was never much of a break. It would be good to go back to this forest, there looked to be a lot of mountain bike trails throughout the forest which were well signposted. It didn't look like you could hire bikes there though, so it may be a little while before we are back.
The driving in London was an interesting experience, it was better than what I thought it would be. At least leaving London was pretty easy, driving on the M25 was a slightly different matter. You have three lanes of traffic all moving at incredibly different speeds, that always makes it fun to change lanes. The way they merge here is also pretty different, you have cars trying to join the 110km/hr motorway with basically no merging lane, they either get in first try or are stuck at the entrance. It's an unusual approach to road safety.
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