With my cricket team not even able to raise a full side today, despite the riduculously low talent requirements, I found myself with a free saturday afternoon and decided to burn off more calories than a day trundling around a cricket pitch would do.
I've been planning a tram up the hill at the back of Kelham Village for a while, and finding online a couple of Kelham circular walks utilising parts of the TRent Valley Way gave me inspiration for a 7 mile route to follow.
After I'd already run a couple of miles to Kelham.
As it happened, the route proved impossible for me to complete for a couple of reasons; firstly, the fact that some parts are too overgrown to be passable, and secondly, I'm navigationally useless. But I still had an enjoyable trip out, up steeps hills, past remote farms, and photographing bees, butterflies, and the view from about the highest part of this chunk of Nottinghamshire.
In the end I ran 17km, rather less than I was expecting to, but still a good run nonetheless, and hopefully when I get an OS map, I'll be able to do the route properly!
Si
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| A nice busy bee to start |
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| Path through a barley field |
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| Ran on part of this route |
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| Oil seed rape after the flowers have gone |
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| Bohemian cuckoo perhaps, on rosebay willow herb |
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| hoverfly |
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| Followed this ringlet for ages to get this shot |
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| Viking ship at Cold Harbour Farm |
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| View to the power station |
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| Now across to the sugar factory |
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| Windy miller |
Love the shot of the path through the field of barley.
ReplyDeleteThat barley in the field Wilma mentions looks just about ripe.
ReplyDeleteI too love the photo of the path through the barley. Well done on the Ringlet photo - I spent ages yesterday trying to photograph them - almost impossible when they are among the grass!
ReplyDelete17km, good running Simon and nice photos too.
ReplyDeleteThink we are all liking the shot through the barley a walk I would like to do...
ReplyDeleteAmanda xx
THanks for the positive feedback folks! That barley field just looks golden and gorgeous, it's like a shot from Gladiator when Maximus sees himself walking through his fields (complete with non Roman tractor tracks!).
ReplyDeleteRinglets are tricky. Maybe the fact the sun had gone in made it easier to get the shot.
That's a fair old run, Simon. Nice bee and hoverfly pics, and the ringlet too.
ReplyDeletelovely photos, specially the ringlet.
ReplyDeleteThanks my friends! Had a very different sort of close encounter today!
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