Categories: uncategorized
Date: 19 January 2004 22:40:08
part two is a little walk worthy of mentioning.
after a quick bagel we set out for stoneleigh.
stoneleigh is a nice little village not far from coventry, but we've always joked we could never live ther eas there's no pub!!! i heard somewhere this was due to it being a quaker settlement originally, but the book we got the walk from says it had a pub until the 19th century, which was closed by the local lord after some boys whistled at his daughter .. heehee
although slightly excessive in this terrain i programmed the route onto my gps for practice and once it had picked up the signal at the top of the first hill it was pretty much spot on all the way round.
despite the hilliness of this short route we seemed to be forever crossing streams/rivers and i wondered if it could possibly be the same one... a later look at the map probably explains why stoneleigh is there at all, it's the confluence (joiny bit) of the river avon & the river sowe.
this walk took in a small part of the coventry way which is a long distance path circling coventry and covering about 40miles.. there's a walking and running event covering this full distance and half distance in september i intend to do.... see their site here
if i get really obsessive i could start putting up gps traces and route profiles.. but things havent got that bad yet!
oh and i'm counting this one in my running mileage cos it makes me feel better!
[todays 'run': 3miles]
[this weeks run total: 31.4]