Cuningar Loop and Helenslea Park
Run time : 33:20 Distance covered : 3.5 miles (5.63km) Soundtrack : Art of the Score podcast Conditions : sunny and warm A tale of two very different parks on this run. I started out from the big Tesco Extra in Farme Cross, combining daily exercise with weekly shop. From the Tesco car park, it's a short distance to the first park, Cuningar Loop Woodland Park . This is one of the newest parks on the list, having been established as one of 13 Commonwealth Woods as part of the legacy of the 2014 Games. The site is on a meander in the Clyde (which I'd never thought of as a noun before, but of course it is). A long curve that I've traversed on the opposite bank by bicycle before. The twistiness of the river in this section adds about three miles from the route from Cambuslang into the city centre, compared with using surface roads. The land is the site of one of the city's old reservoirs, when Glasgow got its drinking water mainly from the Clyde. It'...