Running the Parks

Date I ran:  24th January 2020 Run time:  43:40 Distance covered:  4.71m (7.58km) Soundtrack:  Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake Conditions:  drizzly morning Relatively long run from Cambuslang, out to Overtoun Park and back, after the school run. The cool thing about running different routes is it doesn't feel like you're running as far as you are, because it's as much exploration as it is exercise. I've always found the secret to exercise is to distract myself from the fact I'm doing it, and combining a run with a bit of pedestrian exploration is a good way to do it. Overtoun Park is named for the industrialist Lord Overtoun, who was, as standard for a lot of these parks, a rich dude from hundreds of years ago. Overtoun seems to be a particularly controversial one , as his chemical company dumped toxic waste around the area, some of which is still contaminated a couple of centuries later. It's a nice little park, not big enough for a full 5...