{"id":79,"date":"2015-12-22T17:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-01-03T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T17:57:03","slug":"22122015-view-from-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runspoonsrun.co.uk\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"22\/12\/2015 – View from a Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Christmas firmly on the horizon, I wanted to get a solid weeks-worth of running in, if not a quite full one. Parkrun was off the agenda on Saturday as Palace were away at Stoke. Just too far away to manage a squeeze in a \u00a0run and shower. As it was I managed to arrive 10 minutes late for the game, due to parking issues and the slowest pub lunch ever. However, I’ve managed to digress even before I’ve started the blog… a new record surely.<\/p>\n

It’s been a while since Jim and I had a swim date, so I was pleased to get a couple in this week. The routine of a gentle one mile trot to the Baths, a 1k swim and a 5K with backpack\u00a0thereafter\u00a0is not conducive to a speedy time, even if the tightness again seems easier. A wet and wild easy run came in at 33:40. The dirt path across the Country Park was particularly wet and an smelly encounter with a well-disguised dog turd (in my new shoes, too!) made we wonder whether I should perhaps switch to trail shoes or change the post-swim route to terra-firma.<\/p>\n

Neither choice really appeals, so I stick to both shoes and route. With better, drier weather I manage 32:08. Not up to the heights achieved earlier in the month granted, but I’m happy with it.<\/p>\n

There was some debate at Spoons Mansions about whether we would do a long Sunday run as we were staying with our good friends in Oldham. We’ve prkrun up there and also done a local 5k route, through woods and alongside the Rochdale Canal. The concern was whether we’d be fit to run after a night out in Oldham – they can get very messy – and where to run. The recent heavy rain in the area was likely to make canal-side running a rather moist experience. In the end we chucked in the clobber in the overnight \u00a0bag.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning dawned bright and with the night out only registering a mild wobble on the Richter Scale, we decided to go for it. The ground-hopping geek within me wanted to explore FC United of Manchester new ground in Mostyn and came up with an 7 mile\u00a0circular route from base camp and a way in which Sue could do her usual 10k by omitting the trip to the ground, otherwise known as ‘The Best Bit’!<\/p>\n

It was just as well she did too, as early on she managed to miss the much-discussed left turn after the bridge of the canal (whose path was indeed waterlogged). She ended up detouring towards Rochdale before correcting herself meaning she also did 7 miles and didn’t even get to see the ground. She appeared to be\u00a0less distressed about this than me, though.<\/p>\n

The nice thing about running a new route is getting to see things from a different perspective, I’ve been coming to these parts since 1988, so nothing was really new as such, but I’ve mostly seen it from the inside of a car or train or bus (or pub). \u00a0Occasionally, something just stops you mid-trundle. First, it was the smell from the vinegar factory then it was the view over the M60 looking back across Oldham and backdrop of the Peninnes. I had to take a snap, although the picture below doesn’t really do the expansive view any sort of justice. By the time I wrestled my phone from my new running bum-bag whilst trying to trot along, I managed to obscure the view of the town with\u00a0a warehouse.<\/p>\n

\"2015-12-20<\/a><\/p>\n

A skirt around Broadhurst Park, the new stadium and the bonus of finding a quiet footpath alongside the railway before hitting Broadway\u00a0back home. The time 1:17:11 was nothing to brag about (which is probably why why I’ve been wittering on a about a view\u00a0and a non-league ground), but all miles in the bank and a nice pain-free run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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