With Hellrunner just around the corner, I thought I ought to step up my running, so have been chuffed to do 28 miles in the last eight days (that’s not too bad for my short legs). It’s been a little bit of a shock to the system as the last few weeks have been spent building up to, and then doing, the Atlas Mountains trekking trip, so the ankles have been grumbling a bit.

Pick of the bunch circuit wise is Knowle Hill, which runs between Reading and Maidenhead. It’s just over eight miles of mostly flat countryside with only a few golfers at the beginning and a handful of dog walkers on the rest of the way around.

17/10/2009 Knowle Hill – lower circuit
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Second favourite circuit is a six miler around Swinley Forest in Bracknell. Navigation via a crappy £1 map from the Look Out Discovery Park is tricky, but having been a couple of times now I reckon we can probably manage a decent run without getting hopelessly lost.