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!
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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!
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.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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...
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A Halloween Run (although technically a bit early in the day)
Bit of help as I’ve lost my running mojo 
Bit of a weary Parkrun today (still fun obvs!) with speedy newbie daughter! 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
...bit of a rubbish run!😕
