Cambuslang Park
Run time: 30:02 Distance covered: 3.2m (5.15km) Soundtrack: Derren Brown, Confessions of a Conjuror Conditions: cold morning I grew up on Huntly Drive in Cambuslang, which is a short walk from Cambuslang Park. I was in the park with my buddies every day of those impossibly long summers back in the eighties, riding our bikes, playing soldiers, reading comic books, avoiding bullies, lunging out over precipices on rope swings, climbing rock faces we probably shouldn't have, discovering caves, trying to work up the nerve to venture into the underground culvert that carried the stream under Cairns Road, or the Witch's Tunnel, as it was known. Yes, my childhood was basically a less-supernatural Stephen King novel. The kind of childhood kids don't really have anymore. The park today is very different to the way it was when I was growing up. In the late eighties and early nineties, it was an overgrown wilderness, full of untamed trees and bushes. T...