Wild Run: A Hobbit’s “Trail”

*There and back again... by GoodGym-Baggins*

We ran up hill and down dale, and then back up again!

From the Steel City streets, we arrived at the Lushes Longshaw Estate where we started our 8k training run.

We set off from the front of the lodge and headed east toward the old gamekeepers cottage at White Edge - taking in our evenings first views across the Dark Peak.

Dancing round the trees and hotstepping over the rocks, we heading down-down-deeper-and-down into the woods of lower Padley Gorge, a woodland straight out of a *Tolkien* book. Traveling through *Hobbiton, we bolted across the wooden bridge, avoiding the *dark riders** and up the steep ( sooo steep) stone steps to what could have been *Mount Doom! *

With no *ring to burn or Orc's to fight*, we pressed on across the Lawrence fields towards the iconic Owler Tor. Climbing up onto the grit stone Tor where we perched. With the low sun hanging in the sky, we rested a moment. Taking in a 360 view across Britain's oldest national park.

The final stretch took us passed the old boat pond and back to the lodge.

After catching our breath, Kim took us though our stretches before heading home for a pint of *Middle Earth *mild!

The next Wild Run is here: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/wild-run-white-edge-coppice-wood