Ground vegetation consists mainly of brambles.
The wood is a public open space bordered by housing, a school and a community centre car park. To the west an abandoned field is now a Hornbeam and Oak wood. Blounts Wood TQ , 3. The Shenfield to Southend Railway forms the southern boundary of the wood. Crabtree Wood TQ , 1. A large wood bank marks the boundary with Hockley Hall Wood. The flora is quite poor, although bluebells are abundant. Folly Wood TQ , 1. It has a few Oaks.
Its boundaries comprise housing and an arable field. Hockley Hall Wood TQ , It has a rich flora and is much shaded and with an acid soil, the grass Milium effusum is in profusion. Hockley Hall Wood is privately owned although a public footpath runs through the wood in an East-West direction. It has the typical structure of an Oak-Hornbeam wood. It has a rich flora including Wild Service, broom , brambles and bluebells. The railway forms the northern boundary and an arable field the other boundaries. Marylands Wood TQ , 4. However runners were soon called over for a short but useful race briefing and we all lined up for six hours of trail shenanigans!
I took up my customary position at the back of the course but as the start was called I quickly made my way forward through the other eventers, quickly catching the front four or five runners and settling into a very pleasant stride. As I often do on looped events I look for markers and note conditions underfoot so as to try and see where problems, challenges or faster sections will occur later in the race and this one the course was replete with challenging conditions, grinding up hills, gnarly trail and the odd speedy downhill.
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I quickly realised that the use of the word challenge in the title was very appropriate. Regardless I pressed onwards, enjoying the spray of mud that had erupted all over my legs and I thundered through the first lap in under 30 minutes despite the reasonably heavy rain. The second lap went in an even faster time despite a stop to speak to UltraBaby who had been chasing round the woods after runners and our Spaniel, when lap three dropped at a similar pace my thoughts turned to a sub 4 hour marathon time for the first time in ages and a little over 4 hours for the eight laps I had targeted.
I took a few minutes at the checkpoint to gather myself for another lap and then set out again, still making good time and looking at a little over 2hrs for the first four laps. Sadly the dog decided to run between my legs and, in my efforts to avoid giving it a thoroughly good kicking, upended me — forcing me down badly and heavily on my groin. I managed to hobble away, there was no word from the owner, an acknowledgement or even apology might have been nice but still.
I pressed in some thumbs and then moved on gingerly. At this point I hoped I could run it off but all running was doing was aggravating it. I stopped periodically to stretch my leg out which would give a minute or two of relief but the Hockley Trail Challenge as a race, for me, was over. Thankfully I was still managing to run some sections of each loop which kept both my sanity intact and my timings reasonable given the pain I was in and I was fortunate to meet some lovely people as I ambled along most notably Joe, a lovely, hardcore ultra running chap from Tipperary!
But with these thoughts put out of mind I pushed on for one last go round Hockley Woods. As a very pleasant surprise though my little daughter UltraBaby was waiting for me a couple of hundred feet from the finish line thanks to the lovely volunteers for the picture.
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We bimbled towards the finish as UltraBaby told me we were racing and we crossed the line to much applause from the amazing volunteers. Route The route was much harder than I had imagined, hillier than I was expecting and conditions on the ground and the lapped nature of the course meant it got cut up pretty quickly.
That being said once the rain stopped and the runners thinned out the course quickly returned to being more runnable for the most part. From Border Control min. How long does it take to get to Hockley Woods from Barking Station, Barking by public transportation? How long does it take to get to Hockley Woods from Queens Hospital, Romford by public transportation?
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The nearest stations to Hockley Woods are: The Bull, Hockley is meters away, 3 min walk Seetec, Hockley is meters away, 4 min walk Folly Lane, Hockley is meters away, 7 min walk. Which National Rail lines stop near Hockley Woods? These National Rail lines stop near Hockley Woods: Which Bus lines stop near Hockley Woods?
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These Bus lines stop near Hockley Woods: Moovit is the world's 1 transport app. Add this badge to your website. Click to copy HTML. It is owned and managed by Rochford District Council. Hoc kley Woods are the largest residual area of the wild wood, which covered much of Essex after the Ice Age, 10, years ago.
Hockley Woods comprise several contiguous named woods including: