I'm just back from a fun weekend in Bath for a family event. Some of us stayed at the Youth Hostel. It's functional, but we just needed somewhere to sleep and they did a good breakfast too. If you've not been to Bath you may not know that the town is surrounded by hills and this place is up one of these. It's a serious climb to walk up there from the centre.
This morning I went for a run whilst the family were still in bad. I chose to head uphill to start with. That took me up to the university and a golf course that featured a castle wall.
I stayed up the top for a while, which took me across some fields, but I eventually headed down when I decided I needed to get back. I found a road, but had to check the map to see where I was. The views were great, but the people in balloon ad it even better than me. Note the wall of cloud that spread across the sky.
There are some amazing houses in the town, but up on the hill were some huge ones that show the wealth that was there. People have come to Bath for the 'healing waters' for millennia. The Roman baths in town are spectacular. A lot of the building came in the 18th and 19th centuries when it was a popular resort for the rich. It was part of the canal network and that is still used. I should perhaps have just run along the canal as that is guaranteed to to be flat, but I had to go and tackle the hills.
The final stretch took me past a large new housing estate and brought me out down the hill from the hostel, so I had to climb the last part. I walked some of that. The pace was nothing special as I was taking it easy and struggling on the hills. I may have done even more climbing that I did in Edinburgh recently. Over 1200m in under 8km! I was ready for a shower and breakfast when I got back.
We've been to Bath before and may well return as I have family there. I may even run again there. For now I have my 10km race next weekend. I'll do one more set of intervals before that. I'm just out to enjoy it.
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