WSFRL: New Years Day Hangover 5

HAYWARDS HEATH HARRIERS have had amazing success with the West Sussex Fun Run League over the last two years.    Starting with a club initiate in payment and supporting the event to new leadership that has resulted in Haywards Heath Harriers winning the League twice over the last two years.

The WSFRL is made up of 16 athletics clubs, who all host one run over the season.   That's 16 runs to gain points over the year.   They are all very different runs and amazing events to take part in.   The first is the Hangover 5 (miles or 8km) in Worthing hosted by Worthing Gazelles and the last is always Gun Powder Treason and Trot hosted by Horsham Joggers in Horsham.   Both events always have mud in common, rather a lot of it!

There was a good turn out from Haywards Heath Harriers with 28 athletes on the starting line, aiming to get as many points as possible to ensure a good chance of victory by the end of the season.

It's a tough course starting off with a run round a large field, before exiting through the car park onto a tarmac lane.   One through that there is a left turn onto the start of the trails run heading up on to the South Downs for a good two miles.   Then it drops down hill, with a few more hills for good measure circling back towards the finish line.

There was a good amount of mud and places where the mud mixed with the chalk creating, I do not know what, other than very slippery and sticky mess!   This is one of the runs that I look forward to each year and it never fails to deliver.

The race concluded with Horsham Joggers in first position just four points ahead of joint second place Haywards Heath Harriers and Worthing Harriers.   This is a great start to the season with three clubs already head to head for points over the coming 11 months heading for the Gunpowder Treason and Trot in Horsham.