After driving north for about 6 hours yesterday we found out he was wrong, it’s very hilly round here.
Short joggle looking for the canal path this morning which we didn’t find but woods grass and views were lovely.
Castles and canals are now on the agenda, I will find a canal to run alongside
Happy running all
Oooh, you can get a long way in 6 hours. Are you on your holibobs? Enjoy!
Yes we are 😀and right up north
Have a lovely holiday wherever you are, go short walks or runs if you feel that way, the main thing is to relax.
It’s lovely thanks Al, it’s just bliss knowing I don’t have to go back to work for a week and I met a man with a dog who told me i wasn’t that far from the canals We are hunting a castle later
When I first saw your photo I thought it was a headstone 🙄😏
There’s definitely a castle in there though! Happy running to you both 🙂
It’s a stone marker for the canal walk that we never found, we’ve come to a different town for the castle, it’s amazing having a holiday
Have a wonderful holiday 🙂
It reminds me of the old joke.
"Sure, this fellow lived to a grand old age." "Who's that?"
"This one here on the headstone. 102, Miles from Dublin."
Haha 😂 that’s very good 🤣
Oh enjoy your trip and the hills - they are very good for you😂 happy running 🤗
They are bigger than home, thanks we are having such fun
Looks like a nice environment, a run is definitely in order in such an environment! Hope lil Parker isn't fending for himself now? 😉
No my granddaughter is caring for him very well and sending me regular photo updates
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Enjoy your holiday . Hope you find your castle and cabals up run along🤗
We found the canals but you have to book a visit to the castle so we looked at the outside
A holiday! Brilliant! Have a fantastic time and enjoy running in some new places once you find that canal!
Enjoy exploring new runs W&S, you deserve a holiday.
Thanks Dexy, it’s just great to see family and spend time together
Oh enjoy your hols! Up North is lovely 😊. Being a northerner myself and now living in the south, I'm very biased 😊. I am heading Up North myself for a holiday at the weekend. We're off to beautiful North Yorkshire, where - you can tell Willow - it is definitely not flat 😉.
Welcome back home at the weekend Delly-dot. We have just returned home to the northernmost bit of North Yorkshire after 2 weeks in the lovely Isles of Scilly. There has been a lot of rain whilst we we were away, so that everything is looking very lush and green. Unsurprisingly, it is still very hilly 🙂
I’m looking forward to doing some tourist running in new places. Hopefully we’ll find a flattish route, as my daughter has just started C25K and I think hills might not go down well at this stage 😉🤫.
True!! Although they help to keep the pace down 🙂
Welcome up North Willow and Sola. No canals, but plenty of hills in our bit of North Yorks. Railway lines turned into walkways are our best bet for flatter runs. 😀
I think we are east of you,, my geography is dire but we are in Lancashire
Lancashire is west of us 🙂. East of us is the North Sea; no hills but not good for running 😂
I went to Middlesbrough once and went to a beach, it was so tempting that off came my outer clothes and in i went, it was October and i’d never felt water so cold before, that North Sea is freezing
Oh I meant west
It is pretty cold up here but seas around Scilly feel colder. Something about circular tides down there keeping the water very clean but very cold too!
The sea is strange, north west of Scotland there is the gulf stream which can make swimming more pleasurable
True. Swimming off beaches in Cornwall is good too; wet suit needed for many of us off Scilly.
I’d always thought Scilly would have warm seas, we live on the south coast and it’s warm enough in summer
Yep, we’ve just been up t’north and it’s hilly! My knees are not happy at all. I’ve never had to walk mid run since I graduated, until that is, I went north 😂
We ran down and down then decided to turn round and go back up before we’d gone down so far we couldn’t get back up again
😂😆😂 Have just come back from a 5k road run. Elevation gain 36m. It isn’t all terrible. The route is level to down hill out and uphill much of the way back 🙂. The worst one I do (not very often now) is 150m gain. Just have to slow off.
That sounds like a good run
Sounds glorious! Enjoy and rest 😴😊
Thanks and we are, today is resting day and we’ve hardly moved, apart from stairs, we don’t have stairs at home and it seems whatever you want involves going up or down stairs
Hilly Parkrun
