Week to date mileage 40.6 miles
Month to date mileage 18
Average weekly rate 30.2 miles
Average monthly rate 131
Year to date 1056
Lifetime 10649
After a good weeks running and feeling a little tired I decided to take it easy on my hour run by doing a circuit of my nearly measured circular run. Starting at the Ouida memorial at the bottom of Vinery Road I head up hill along Hardwick Lane.Following the road around in a circle to take back towards town along Cullum Road before heading back along Out Westgate Street and back to the Ouida memorial. Has any read or got an Ouida novel? A 2.21 mile circuit according to mapmyrun.com. I didn't run very quickly but ran an 18.20 time.
After this I turned back along Out Westgate Street and into Bury. The Albert Buildings and the Chapel both date from 1840. At this time Bury St Edmunds had just gained its first Police Force in 1836 the gas works had just been built but the town had yet to be connected by rail to any other towns.
We are very fortunate to live in Bury St Edmunds and have the wonderful Abbey Gardens on our door step. It is a place I never tire of visiting and it makes a great place for a run. It was here I headed next.
It was quite at this time of the morning with just a few early bird families heading for the swings and one or two tourists consulting maps. Running here doesn't feel like work at all as you are totally distracted by everything around you and time passes though the benches looked tempting.
"Ouida memorial" is that near the phone box at the bottom of the hill, near the Tesco store? Never knew it was called that. I will google it to find out more. Thank you.
ReplyDelete*screams with frustration* Unsurprisingly www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/Ouida-Memorial.cfm is not working!!
ReplyDeleteThe Abbey Gardens never gets old. I love visiting it when I haven't been for a while too - as I did recently on coming back from a month in York. Best pic nic place ever, as well as a good place to run!
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