Today my legs were aching from a mixture of my last run a
couple of day ago and possibly a load of gardening I had done yesterday. I
planned to go out of a run with my neighbour at 3pm and it was going to be a 4
mile route (the same route that was done on Monday).
As we came to Sutton Cheney Wharf we noticed that the car
park looked full, so we decided to do another route. We parked outside the
Hercules Pub in Sutton Cheney and got ourselves ready for the run.
We walked down the road and a short way along a footpath until
we came to a stile, we hopped over the stile and I set the Garmin (Forerunner
610) and the run began. We ran through a few fields, some of which were
ploughed, and then ran through a field with a horse roaming around which lead
us to a children’s playing field with swings in. There was a 5-10 minute break
in the playground before we backtracked along the route we had just come along
and back to the car.
Once we arrived at the car I paused the Garmin and we had a
water break while deciding where to go as we had done about 3.5 miles. A
decision was made for the next part of the route which was a short 0.5 mile
drive to a couple of fields away from Bosworth Battlefield Centre. I unpaused
the Garmin and created a split and then decided that I would run the 0.5 mile
to the next start point along a path.
Once I arrived to the start point where my neighbour had
parked, I created another split on the Garmin and then had a small sip of water
before we started the next part of our run.
We ran across a few fields to the Bosworth Battlefield
Centre and then on towards an old unused railway track via Ambion wood. When we
exited the woods we turned left and headed towards an old railway bridge that
spans across a canal.
We took a short path from the bridge down to the canal where
we turned left and continued up the canal. I seemed to feel okay at this point
as I got into a nice slow run and controlling my breathing, until we reached a
bridge with a road going over it. We took the road which leads to Shenton
station which is a part of the Bosworth Battlefield Railway Line.
We crossed the line by going through a couple of gates and
through another couple of gates at the side of the station building. The track
went up a little hill and alongside a field that leads to another small hill. We
had a small rest to get our breath back and a small drink of water while
soaking up the fantastic view across Bosworth Battlefield.
The run started again and headed off into Ambion wood
towards the disused railway line, once we got to the disused railway line we turned
left and ran down towards to old railway bridge once again. When we arrived at
the railway bridge we took to the canal but this time we turned right that
leads to Sutton Cheney Wharf. I found I had to try and get into slow run and
concentrate on the breathing again. I was very surprised that the run along the
canal went by very quickly and that I managed to continue without stopping, I
was really tired at this stage.
There is a bridge that crosses the canal to the Sutton
Cheney Wharf car park which we just walked across to give us a little break.
Once in the car park we carried on through the car park and along a path that
runs alongside the canal and once again into Ambion wood. I really don’t know
how I managed to carry on but I did, I suppose it was the thought that we were
not far from where the run was going to come to an end. I found running on the
side of the track on the pine needles were softer to run on and more
comfortable, it wasn’t that long before we came out of Ambion wood through a
couple of gates and a short distance to Bosworth Battlefield Centre where we
turned down the side of the building to a gate where the run came to a stop. At
this point I looked at the Garmin and notice the mileage was reading just over
8 miles. We walked across a couple of fields using this as a cool down towards
the location where the car was parked.
This run is the furthest I have ever run and is a personal
record for me, I really don’t know how I managed to cover the 8 miles plus. I
feel great having achieved today’s run but I can’t help thinking that I will be
suffering for it during the evening and the next day.
Garmin Connect - Sutton Cheney, Stapleton, Bosworth Battlefield, Sutton Cheney
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