An 8am run to the Stratford Obelisk. Route: Leaving the AirBnB at 12 St John Strett and running west along Payton Place and north on Warwick Road and onto Welcombe Road. At a slight bend, continuing straight on a grassy track and keeping on this course past Welcombe Hotel, climbing then bending slightly right to the Obelisk. Then heading west and then south and then west again to find a path through corn fields to join Clopton Road and follow this down to the canal towpath and then down along Great Willian Street to return to St John Street.
Conditions: although 8am, hot while running.
Pub? Not at 9am but later Butcombe Rare Breed Pale Ale with a late lunch, post-visit to Compton Verney, with Emma, Nathan and James at the Antelope, Lighthorne.
