Route

The route will be fully marshaled/signed: the following is just for information.

Start out at the end of the lane leading to the school (don't park up on verges: the roads are very wide anyway). Take the first right hand at the end of the short upwards incline, and run straight to the end, where the track starts (may be a bottleneck here). From here until the end you are on rough trails. Essentially you descend over the course of nearly 2km to Crabtree Cottages, and there take a sharp right, conouring around next to woods. Then steep descent over chalky and slippy paths to a gate, over a field and through another gate to the road. Cross the road and start to rescend: there is a brutish little hill on slippy chalk, before you dog leg into Dorking wood. The path is wide and muddy all the way through the wood - vault the fallen tree. When you see the large Gothic church at Ranmore (Grade II*-list (of outstanding importance), designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott - a leading exponent of the Gothic Revival - in 1859, and visible for many miles around), turn right, run for 300m and then turn right again, plunging back into the deep woods of Ranmore Common, descending all the time. You'll eventually re-emerge near the Tanner's Hatch youth hostel, before losing the rest of your altitude over fields, and skirting the edge of the National Trust's Polesden Lacey estate. Now comes the good bit. Re-ascend on rustic tracks, until you arrive at Polesden Road: cross with care, and continue along the track on the left hand side of the road: at the junction cross again with care, and continue for another 400m until you take the next left hand turn, to arrive back at the start/finish.

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey.

Contour map and section courtesy of John.

Although there will be marshals on the course, runners are responsible for completing the course correctly.

Organised by Andy Fay