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Three countries, three runs

Before last year, going on holiday was generally reason not to be running, but with my commitment to run in more different locations, and to maintain fitness without the excuses of travel (leisure or business), that has changed. My runs while away from home may sometimes be shorter or easier, but hopefully most offer plenty […]

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Roding Valley parkrun – location 44

A visit this morning to Loughton (in Essex but for country bumpkins feeling like the NE edge of London) for the Roding Valley parkrun – my parkrun location 44. The run is around a park/recreation ground next to the eponymous river: flat and a mixture of grass and tarmac plus four bridges. Easy-going for a […]

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Hadleigh – parkrun location 43

My 43rd parkrun location was Hadleigh in Essex. I’d been here once before, in January, for the Legacy 10k on the Olympic mountain bike course, the hardest 10k I’ve done by some margin. The parkrun was easier, but still quite challenging. It starts off with a lot of downhill, initially with hairpin bends and then […]