Running

Back to back snow days – what more could you want? Busier trails today that I could actually run. Distance: 14km. New squares: 8. New peaks: 1. New Trigs: 1.   Looking back over Greenfield to Alderman’s. SD9903. Climbing up Alphin felt a little like Everest today. Such lovely conditions brought a queue of people…

This was an epic run in the snow. Total change of route mid way through as we were making incredibly slow progress in knee deep powdery snow. Gave us immense respect for all those starting the Spine Race this weekend. Speaking of which, if you haven’t been watching dots already this weekend then here are…

I love running in snow. It’s a hell of a workout. Didn’t go far today, ran the length of the hill behind our house, but I was the first idiot covering most of it so was running in 1-3 ft of undisturbed snow for much of it. Distance: 11km. New squares: 9. New peaks: 1….

Snow and ice, a first trig point, and a bump to the head! Distance: 13km. New squares: 5. New peaks: 1. New trig points: 1. SD9807 takes in the Saddleworth village of Delph. I almost always take the footpath along the river, rather than the high street. It’s quiet and another nice bit of industrial…

A beautiful January day to start ticking off squares & peaks. Glad I didn’t go out yesterday with fairly significant flooding in the local area. Distance: 13km. New squares: 9. New peaks: 2. First up was my home square of SD9905. The local playing fields were looking picturesque in the morning sun & frost. The…