24-03-2020, 12:18 PM
As we are all confined to the home and garage, I think we need something to look forward to. There is the 100 year anniversary of the Austin 7 coming up in 2022 but hopefully life will get back to something like normal well before then.
I am always thinking about future road runs and would welcome ideas and suggestions from Forum contributors. In the past my runs could be 175 miles in the day over very demanding roads but in recent years I have come to realise that about 120 miles a day is preferable, with ample time for comfort and coffee stops at country pubs and overnight stops in nice hotels.
I will start the thread with a suggestion for a 'River Tweed Run'.
The idea would be to start at Berwick upon Tweed and follow the river as closely as possible to its source, crossing it by all the bridges that would have existed in the 1930's.
Using the Bartholemew 1/2" to the mile map 41 Tweeddale, which can be downloaded from the superb National Library of Scotland website, a route can be planned. A couple of the old bridges are now closed to traffic but could be visited and inspected on foot.
The route would take in the worlds oldest suspension bridge and the Border towns of Coldstream, Kelso, Melrose and Peebles, which I would use for the overnight stop.
Day 2 would continue on some quite challenging roads to the source of the river Tweed near the Devils Beef Tub just north of Moffat.
A second night stay could be near Carlisle.
Has anyone any plans for a major centenary run in 2022?
I am always thinking about future road runs and would welcome ideas and suggestions from Forum contributors. In the past my runs could be 175 miles in the day over very demanding roads but in recent years I have come to realise that about 120 miles a day is preferable, with ample time for comfort and coffee stops at country pubs and overnight stops in nice hotels.
I will start the thread with a suggestion for a 'River Tweed Run'.
The idea would be to start at Berwick upon Tweed and follow the river as closely as possible to its source, crossing it by all the bridges that would have existed in the 1930's.
Using the Bartholemew 1/2" to the mile map 41 Tweeddale, which can be downloaded from the superb National Library of Scotland website, a route can be planned. A couple of the old bridges are now closed to traffic but could be visited and inspected on foot.
The route would take in the worlds oldest suspension bridge and the Border towns of Coldstream, Kelso, Melrose and Peebles, which I would use for the overnight stop.
Day 2 would continue on some quite challenging roads to the source of the river Tweed near the Devils Beef Tub just north of Moffat.
A second night stay could be near Carlisle.
Has anyone any plans for a major centenary run in 2022?