 Hello, welcome to Film My Run. We are in South Ease today at the Youth Hostel and the railway station is a little bit down there. South Ease is about 15 miles from your finish point on the South Downsway 50 mile race. So 15 miles from home when you get to the aid station that will be in this barn here. So today we're going to run 13 miles from here towards Eastbourne. We're not going to get quite to Eastbourne and then we're going to turn around and come back. So it'll be a full marathon by the time we've finished. So the railway line is just there. You'll have crossed over the railway line having gone through the village of South Ease and you'll come along this path here. You'll go up to the aid station there but then you'll come back down and head this way. So we keep following the acorns all the way. The acorns will tell you that you are on the South Downsway. Pretty much out of every aid station on the South Downsway there is a hill. So your best bet generally is to grab food that you need at the aid station and eat it walking up the hill. You'll find you've got big climbs out of House Dean Farm which is the one further back from here. Then here at South Ease, then at Alphaston and then at Jewington All Climbs out of Aid Stations. So over there in the distance is New Haven and then further on that way into Brighton and that way to the South Downs, Seven Sisters. How far are you going? Yeah we'll see you on the way then. Okay so two miles out of South Ease and you hit the radio tower and that means you've got about three or four miles to go to get to Alphaston and then it's on to Jewington. Yeah people back there are wrecking the South Downsway too in preparation for the 50-miler which is in about four weeks from now. Do you close the gate behind you or do you leave it as it was found? Right but what if the farmer has left? What if the farmer has left the gate open for a reason? Yeah because I did a video about things to do when you're trail running and I said to close the gate behind you and somebody mentioned in the comments no you shouldn't close the gate behind you you should leave it as it was found so if it was open you should leave it open but my wife is a farmer's girl and she knows so in general the rule is still close the gate behind you because it's unlikely that it's been left open deliberately by the farmer. When you say trigger open, what's that name? Either tie it or put that piece of wood to hold it open. Okay. We're at a nice hide point here. It's from South East and it looks like a barrow as well. It looks like an Iron Age boy here. Here we are arriving in Bo Peep car park. Anyone who's done the beachy head marathon will know this is kind of almost half way in the marathon where you turn down there and you head off back down to the coast and then it's the seven sisters all the way home. We are about two and a half miles here from Alfreston so we're going to just drop down into the village of Alfreston shortly. In terms of our run we're about five miles just under five miles in to our run. Right we're 10k in it's pouring with rain. We've just come to a junction and we're about to drop down into Alfreston. On the South Downsway 50 this will all be well signposted but again you follow the arrows there to the South Downsway so we're going straight ahead that way there. Alright so you don't go down there, you don't go down there, you don't go up there, you go down here. Welcome to the pretty village of Alfreston which on a summer's day is absolutely gorgeous. Now the South Downsway you'll get to this pub here which is the George Inn and you will turn right and there's an aid station just down there. So the George Inn got its license in 1397. Okay so we go along here and then we turn down this little lane here which goes to Alfreston Collergy House. Got a feeling that Alfreston Collergy House was the very first national trust property. I think so. That's your aid station there yeah. So yeah the old Burgey House I believe is the original, the very first national trust property. And at the end of this little path we get to the famous White Bridge in Alfreston. That aid station that we've just been to up there by the way is not technically the South Downsway. You just go that way just to get to the aid station. Right so we've come out of Alfreston we've come along this path here by the river and we're now going to head up to the big climb. This is one of the toughest climbs on the South Downsway 50 out of Alfreston before Jevington. How you feeling? Yep okay apart from my usual freezing cold hands. So if you're marching fairly consistently up that hill. 10 minutes 15 minutes solid marching should get you to the top but if you're really tired it can take 45 minutes. So the famous Long Man of Wilmington is just down there. You don't actually see it on the South Downsway 50 or any of the South Downsway runs because it's dropped down there. But you are literally just a few meters away from it. Just another couple of nav points here when we get to this point you'll see the sign South Downsway this way and then again there's another little fork just about 100 meters or so to go off to the left. So when we get to here we don't follow that road or path we follow that path there. So after the last video we did a few people asked me do you really think it's worth wearing trail shoes for the South Downsway 50 because the South Downsway is generally fairly benign. However if it rains like it's rained today that mud back there is very very slippy and I wouldn't want to be in road shoes. And Village Hall is your final aid station so Jefferson Village Hall here is four miles from home so if you can be bothered you can climb up those steps and go and get yourself a final cup of coffee in there. Quite often people miss out that final aid station because you're so close to home people just want to get it done so if you can you want to save yourself a bit of time just miss it out come straight down here and get on your way. And past the old Hungry Monk restaurant or the cottages as it now is that's the home of Bonofi Pie there in 1972. Bonofi Pie was invented in that restaurant. This is now about a one mile climb out of Jevington and then you're almost home just a drop down into Eastbourne from the trig point at the top. Okay so we've reached the top of the final climb out of Jevington and this will all be really well signposted but we need to go up this path here to the trig point. Yeah there will be a marshall on the top here probably directing you down the gully into Eastbourne so we're now leaving the south downsway and dropping down to Eastbourne it's three miles from here and you can immediately see how it kind of goes into a V shape and you know that you're on the right path but you will be directed down here so there's no worries about navigation. So whilst most of the south downsway is really easy going there are some sections that you will need to be careful and this is a very rocky slippy descent. Trail shoes really if it's like that are the only option. Okay so that's the end of our recce of the south downsway 50 from southeast all the way to here in Eastbourne we're going to turn around and go back now we've done 21 kilometers so to make it a marathon we'll just run all the way back. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Do we kind of know each other? We have met before. What's your name? Ally. Ally runs. Photo girl runs. Photo girl runs. Beautiful views over Eastbourne. It's stopped raining. Up on the top of the downs now it's much much clearer in fact I can see in the distance the Rampian Wind Farm which is kind of opposite worthy so that's a long way out to see I can see there. We are 26 kilometers into our run so we're about to do our big long descent down into Alfruston. Right we've got to Alfruston so nearly 20 miles in in about the same time as we did 20 miles last the other week so we're going to go to the lovely village store here and grab a drink. Okay this promises to be the laziest 10k ever. Just climbing out of Alfruston having been to the shop. We've got crisps, crisps and milk and we're just having a little feast on our way up the hill. We might get running again you never know it might happen but I can't promise anything. 20 miles done, 6 to go. That's all you do running for isn't it so you can eat loads of crisps afterwards or even during. I don't know they just make me happy. Alright back at Bo Peep car park, 5 miles to go. Awesome, 38 kilometers done, 4 to go. So back at South East at the youth hostel here and the farm and that's it we've done it. It's taken us just over 6 hours to do 42 kilometers 13 miles from South East to Eastbourne and back the same way. So thank you very much for watching. Hope you enjoyed it, hope you found it useful if you are running the South Downsway 50 or even the 100. If you're running the 100 most of that will be done in the dark. But good luck if you are running and thanks very much for watching. Do please subscribe to the YouTube channel just click that bell icon as well. You know all that gubbins but it just helps me to get to 10,000 subscribers. That would be great. Thank you very much, take care. We'll see you again for another film I run. Bye bye. Done. Got there, well done.