I met a friend in Bath yesterday and instead of doing my recovery day walk around the village where I live, I decided to leave early and have a walk around the city.
I’d originally planned to walk from the park and ride but time got away from me. The one I use goes along part of the half marathon route. It was nice to be seeing it from a comfy bus seat this time! It still feels totally unreal that I did that! It was freezing cold so I was suitable bundled up in my winter coat (great pockets!), gloves and new hat. I love a hat. This one has reflective threads in it so cars can see you at night but also a soft fleecy lining. I set off to get lost around some back streets and enjoy the river. It’s beautiful on a day like this-cold but bright.
There were lots of nice things to see along the way. Dogs wearing clothes. Joggers with light up shoes. A new wool shop and a few cafes I hadn’t seen before. Some massive seagulls having a tiff over what seemed to be an empty crisp packet. At one point, I paused for a coffee to warm my hands up with but I was quite disciplined in not popping into shops. An hour or so later, my friend rang and we met for lunch. Lovely!
A thoroughly civilised day with a decent step count!
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Great walk around Bath for you MissUnderstanding, glad you enjoyed it despite the cold, I have seen dogs wearing clothes but runners with light up shoes, that's new, by the way I ran my 137th 5K (not) parkrun this morning in a time of 35.24
I’ve seen late night joggers with shoe lights before (I’d quite like some!) but never daytime ones. Maybe they’d just forgotten to take them off!
Congratulations on that (not) parkrun. I’ve never thought about doing that before. I’m aiming to run one 5k a week as well as my long run so maybe I’ll look into it. Saturday morning is tricky for me so it could be a different way to make sure I get that 5k done!!
it’s easy…just log into your Park Run page and enter the date and your result. It goes live at once, and then you get the full results for for your local Run on Monday (I think)…
Their week runs Monday to Sunday, so if you run on Sunday, log your result before the end of the day or you will be unable to use it.
2019 was a good year for me regarding walking and running, I had graduated from C25K the previous year, in January 2019 I started going to my weekly Thursday morning walking club and later that year in July I began parkruns, so now I go to the Thursday walking club and on most Saturday's it's parkrun day, after the walk on a Thursday all the walkers go into the local leisure centre for cake and coffee, the group are devided into three groups, the slow group have a 1 kilometre walk, the medium group have a 2 kilometre walk and the faster walkers which I am in go for a 4 kilometre walk which usually takes around 45 minutes, just for fun a while ago I ran the exact route in 27 minutes, not on a Thursday but one of the Saturday morning's that parkruns were not on due to covid 19.
How wonderful! It sounds so lovely, and you contemplating your past achievements along this route as well! Warm hat and gloves sound cozy in this cold weather (I love that as well) and meeting your friend for a cuppa is the cherry (a delicious crown) on the top! How wonderful! This weather is made for days like the one you described!
It was such a lovely day. If I’d stayed at home, I most likely would have just faffed around not doing anything in particular. So much nicer to have a good walk instead. Plus I felt I’d got better value for money on parking by staying longer since it’s a flat fee on the bus!!!
Yes-I’ve been a couple of times with visiting friends. A fantastic place to chill out! I love Bath. Such a pretty city and a great place to spend an anniversary ❤️
Yes, we've been a few times, went with a friend for our birthdays one year, cold dark January morning, 3 hour drive, 2 hours in the spa, pizza for lunch, 3 hour drive home, amazing day. We are staying overnight this time so no rush and I can run in the morning
Hello MissUnderstanding, I absolutely love the picture that has accompanied your letter to this forum. When I saw it, it was a sharp intake of breath. Beautiful!!!
What a lovely picture. It looks a lovely place I log my park walks in not parkrun every week, have been doing 5km every day just walking. Mr D I will be going on the buses around here as we have our bus passes ,and it will be a change than the car. 😊
Thanks! I’m very lucky to have Bath within an easy driving distance. Always nice for a day out.
I’ll definitely have a look at not parkrun. That may well be a help in motivating me to keep up a 5km run a week. This morning was long run day because of a busy weekend coming up but next week I’m sure will be a good time to start. It’s great you manage to log one every week.
Missed this... Sorry! It looks and sounds glorious! You were well snugged up and that hat! You have mentioned it before.. is it a newish one...can you still buy them... I would really like one!
I bought the hat from Trespass in the post Christmas sale. Just had a look on the website and I can’t see it any more which is a shame. I’m very taken with it! I’ve just been over to the village veg stall and the lady running it really liked the subtle reflectiveness. That short walk is counting as my exercise for the day. My legs are seriously complaining after some side lunges yesterday with weights for the first time in ages. Great that my wrists are strong enough now but my legs are out of practice at the extra load!!
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