Househill and Rosshall Parks. And getting lost.
Run time : 1:03:37 Distance covered : 6.68m (5.60km) Soundtrack : Orphan X , Gregg Hurwitz Conditions : warm and cloudy I know some parts of Glasgow like the back of my hand. Pollok, Crookston and the surrounding areas are not included in that. I'm not sure why I've so rarely ventured into the south-western suburbs, but my lack of familiarity for the area led to me missing one of the parks I'd intended to hit, running a couple of miles out of my way, and accidentally doing a 10k. It's got a really different feel from the rest of the city. Instead of sandstone villas and tenements and orderly street layouts, it's bungalows and dual carriageways and meandering diversions. In places it feels almost more like a new town. That's probably because it was built around the post-war period as the new towns, and had some of the same goals, to take overspill from the city. Anyway, I'd planned to start at Househill Park , then run down to Lochar P...