"Cheshire's Hill Country"

For the second week running the highlight has been focussed around Teggs Nose Country Park, known as Cheshire's hill country whilst the remainder of the county being better known for its flat plain. The country park is managed by one of my teams as part of my role as Leisure & Green Spaces manager for the local authority and it is great to get out and see the outcome of all the hard work put in by the Ranger Service during the year.

After a couple of easy runs during the week the Teggs run turned out to be an 11 mile epic hill run taking in Macclesfield Forest, Shutlingsloe and running several public paths I hadn't followed before (I'm in charge of public rights of way as well!). With some real tough climbing and descending it was quite a shock to the system after a summer of speedwork but the views were fantastic and there may not be many more really bright clear days before the winter sets in. The picture shows the descent towards the forest and Shutlingsloe is the furthest hill on the horizon!

This time next week its the Dream Inspires run in Oxford as part of the World Wide Festival of Races something I'm really lookin forward to.

Annual mileage - 948