The first part leaves Moss Bank Park and runs along the road through Barrow Bridge. It then continues on the road up the big hill and out onto Colliers Row, then turns right and along to Coal Pit Road. Coal Pit Road goes on a bit and is quite dull but it then turns off at the Trespass Stone and follows the path all the way up to the mast. From the mast it goes all the way down the mast road and out onto George’s Lane then along towards the Pike.
We didn’t carry along towards the Pike though and continued by doing the last bit of the marathon route instead. We turned off Georges Lane on the bend by Wilderswood and headed up towards Two Lads. The route doesn’t go up to Two Lads though and carries on past the water tanks back onto the mast road then turns right along the road for a short way before turning left onto the path down towards Holden’s Farm. From Holden’s Farm, we turned right following the footpath sign to Walker Fold. This path eventually comes out onto Colliers Row (Scout Road) which you then run along a short way before turning left at the big stone wheel and heading along Dakin’s Brook, down the 63 steps and back into Barrow Bridge. From Barrow Bridge it was just along the road and back to Moss Bank Park.
My initial views on the marathon route is that the beginning is really dull and boring as it’s mostly on roads going uphill but the end is lovely. The end is actually the only bit I haven’t run on before (except for the road bit at the beginning but I’ve driven on that so it’s not very exciting) but it was really nice running through the woods.
Maggie wants to do the recce in three stages so we need to sort out when stage 2 is going to take place. Hopefully that won’t have too much road in it.
Total distance - 9.7 miles
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