BCK 5K trail 3

[AlMorr]

This is the third and final photo I took this morning of the ButtercupKid 5K trail.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate]

Ooh, lovely!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to BaddieThePirate]

agree

[Time_to_run Graduate]

Oh wow - it is a nature reserve you are running around? Looks lovely.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Time_to_run]

It is, before the council made it a Loch by building a dam at the east end of the Loch, this place was just very boggy ground with no paths or anything at all. When they were building the dam they found evidence of sea shells, the elevation is 100 above sea level now, so those sea shells must go back millions of years.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

That’s cool. The plateau of Kinder Scout was a riverbed apparently, that’d be a while back, even my dad doesn’t remember 😂

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Well it was MILLIONS of years ago UNM, perhaps your great a thousand times grandfather remembers those days, I wonder if anyone in those far off days ran a 5K🤔

[Granspeed Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Bet they all trotted it before breakfast to catch something for the pot!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Granspeed]

If those cavemen back then trotted it before breakfast to hunt or catch something, the distance between caves might have been 5K, or perhaps 10K, there were great migrations back in those far off days following bison, etc, so even marathon distances or more were not unusual.

[Granspeed Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Maybe they were trotting over to invite the neighbours to brunch.... 😊

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

It is lovely Baddie, what the photo doesn't tell you is that particular part which goes a little way over the water was very icy this morning, I saw several runners and they had to slow down to slow walking pace at that time, within 30 minutes the sun melted all the ice and the runners could run as normal. 😊 🏃

[BaddieThePirate Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Yes it was a chilly morning here too. Took me by surprise.

[Jell6 Graduate]

That looks beautiful 😊

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Jell6]

It is Jell6 and BCK appreciates it as well.

[Ang33333 Graduate]

Stunning. I am jealous!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Ang33333]

😊

[molly1973 Graduate]

Beautiful. How lovely that you named it after such a lovely person, too x

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Yes Molly, BCK told me she did appreciate it.

[theoldfellow]

Great pictures, AlMorr. I love flat runs, if only we had some round here. Not so keen on boardwalks though, especially in the icy & wet.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to theoldfellow]

That part was very icy this morning when I took the photo, there were several runners who had to slow down to slow walking pace, however, within 30 minutes the sun melted all the ice and the runners didn't need to slow down, even in wet weather you have to slow down a little.

[Wimborne]

Wow how beautiful. Beats my dreary streets hands down. 😀.

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to Wimborne]

Thanks Wimborne