Queens Park
Date I ran: 26th January 2020 Run time: 34:59 Distance covered: 3.74m (6.02km) Soundtrack: Laura Lippman, The Lady in the Lake Conditions: cold, sleet Probably one of the worst runs I've endured in terms of weather conditions. Started off cold but bearable, and a couple of minutes in it started raining, and then the rain turned to sleet. It was not fun to be out there in January in shorts and t-shirt. As a side effect, my phone screen is cracked, and it was so wet that I couldn't end the Strava session which meant I had to keep running, frantically trying to unlock my phone with numb fingers, like a really terrible version of Speed. But anyway, the park. Queens Park is one I've visited a fair amount, so it wasn't new territory for me. It's one of the major parks in the city, and like many it was originally on land owned by a wealthy family, in this case the Maxwells of Pollok. Wikipedia reports that it was Glasgow's third park (...