Buckingham and Sandyhills Park, with bonus content
Run time : 32:34 Distance covered : 3.56 miles (5.73km) Soundtrack : Red Desert , by Paddy Magrane Conditions : cool with some sun I ran the (rather uninspiring) Carmyle New Park early on in this project, before I had assembled a full list of Glasgow parks, so unbeknownst to me, I had run within yards of Buckingham Park without noticing. I had to pick up a prescription today, so decided to get my weekly longer run in in that neck of the woods. Buckingham is much nicer than Carmyle Park. It's just at the entrance to Carmyle, which is an oddly secluded little neighbourhood, cut off from everywhere else by the Clyde on one side and the M74 on the other. It's small, but it has some really beautiful trees, and a playpark and a basketball court. I've noticed that loads of parks in the city now have basketball courts. I would have loved if that had been the case back in the 90s, when I was playing basketball every day. As it is...