A bit of street run fun

[CBDB]

I watched a video from The Running Channel recently, which set the challenge of running every street in your town section or village!

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So of course I just had to try that! I’m not quite as watchable as Sarah from the video, also by far not as fast and I don’t have a Garmin to program the route in.

However I used RunGo and it’s sat nav like voiced directions and this worked brilliantly. Maybe with exception that I headed out in the wrong direction right at the start but once I found myself again 🤨, it was plain sailing … or running.

What did I discover?

- I don’t usually run 5k on the road, so my shoes really felt much too grippy. I’ll have to try my old Aldi running shoes to see if they’re better. Advantage is also that they have a lower drop.

- it was really fun just following the sat nav instructions, learning the road names and cruising in dead end circles.

- I also discovered another large field (dog owners playing with their dogs) with an adjacent 1k path, which might make up my missing 600 m for my 10k eight-shape route. But it is another out and back, but a lovely one.

- there is a hill!! 😱😱🏔

- the early evening run was just lovely, nice temperature, less cars, only a few people around and kids playing on gras verges

So now I’m all excited about RunGo and town running. That will certainly get me running on the roads as i have avoided it until now. Just need the right shoes.

Happy running everyone!

[Instructor57 Graduate10]

Looks fun , and well done for trying it 😁And she is definitely running at a conversational pace 😁👍

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Instructor57]

😂.. not my conversational pace 🤣🤣

[Instructor57 Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

Haha nor mine 🤣🤣🤣

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10]

I could do the Old Village - I’ve actually walked a lot of it with different dogs over the years by just following our noses - but there’s no way I could do the whole of Hove!

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

Yeah, I think I’ll do my town in bits and. Pieces😅😅

[Fionamags Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

Hahaha I live in a city so.....

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to Fionamags]

Technically I live in a city too. I’d still be working on it aged 100 if I started now 🤣

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

🤣🤣

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

I’d be here for ever if I tried to do the whole city, but In the spirit of the thing, I walked round a close that I’ve never walked into before this morning, with the dogs, instead of just walking across the end of it.

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

Nice! 👍🏽

[skysue16 Graduate10]

Interesting activity.....although I live in a small coastal town, there are lots of streets so I am not sure how long it would take!!

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to skysue16]

Yeah, I’ll do them in stages, and I fear I did leave out a lot of smaller dead ends as my neighbourhood has plenty of those. But I did include dead ends that had a circle at the end, which were actually really fun to cruise down and around.

[Fionamags Graduate10]

Sounds like a fun way to do a run and you found new routes in the process!

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Fionamags]

😃👌🏼👍🏽🗺🧭

[Cmoi Graduate10]

Run every street in my village? OK. Out of the door, turn left, run past one house and to next, retrace steps and repeat to the right. Done. 🤣

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Cmoi]

🤣🤣 wow! I’m jealous!

[Devon_straggler Graduate10 in reply to Cmoi]

I was going to say something similar, and unfortunately the only road is a bit too dangerous for running anyway. Luckily there is plenty of off-road running to make up for it

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Devon_straggler]

Nice! 🏔⛰🏞

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

What a great idea but I’ve run round our village and not even round the perimeter, and it was 8k, and if I included Micky mouse town I’d be out for weeks if not months but up and down local streets is fun, now i’m thinking map art again

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Yeah, to map art! I hadn’t realised until I was using RunGo, that you can overlay an image on the map, trace some routes, run it and voila!

[Fionamags Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

Aha! Good tip- i didn't know that.

[Frenc Graduate10 60minGraduate]

That sounds like fun, I need to investigate 😊. It’s funny how we can discover things that are literally on our doorstep we never knew about! 😁

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Frenc]

Yeah, definitely. Found some gorgeous green spaces, that hill and one path between two parallel streets. 👍🏽

[GoGo_JoJo Graduate10]

I do similar in winter within streetlit areas. No directions, just linking streets up and exploring bits I don't know. Can be very interesting

Map

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

Yeah, I’m beginning to understand the attraction of that.

[Rennur Graduate10]

Erm. I live in London...

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Rennur]

You’ve got a lot of streets then 😀see you around 2050 when you’ve finished 🤣🤪

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

🤣🤣

[JulieByf]

I'd love to do that but living in London makes it a bit of a challenge. I was reading about a guy who is walking every street in London as a challenge. He is 10 years in and still has quite a way to go!I will however, do my local area. That will probably take a year

😆

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to JulieByf]

🤣yeah, if doing this you might have to choose your neighbourhood … 👍🏽🤣

[Week7 Graduate10]

I like the idea of this in the town where I live. It would take me a few sessions but would be doable over a few weeks perhaps. The only problem is that they are building so many new houses in my town at the moment that I fear that by the time I finish the roads on existing maps there would be a load more roads on the new developments-very unsatisfactory!

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to Week7]

Haha 😂 a race against builders! What a challenge. Run all streets in a fast growing town before all new building developments are built.

[LottieMW Ambassador]

Sounds interesting…but I’m in a “new” town…that’s getting newer by the minute! I suppose I could try running the local council ward…🤔

[CBDB Graduate10 in reply to LottieMW]

👍🏽another race against the builders? 😉

[LottieMW Ambassador in reply to CBDB]

Well certainly walking along the canal…🙄

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I am starting to think I should run through the city too. I always do the same route and yesterday my mother said (which I already knew) that always running the same route can be dangerous (in regards to dangerous people taking notice of it and waiting for you). But I don't have any other routes without running through regular streets. And I am a bit apprehensive about that, feeling better in running in a park than through streets in regards to people seeing me...