Saturday 10th February 2024

Today was all about the Severn Bridge. We had yet to cover it to link our England walk (so far) to our Wales Walk (so far). And what better way to kick it off than a parkrun. We had much discussion as to how to travel to the start – drive, run or walk … but drive it was and we parked up in Chepstow.

There we met up with our great friends, Ros and David (who have a getaway house in Chepstow) and Matt Jones who was staying with them for the weekend. David has an injury so was time-keeping today but the rest of us eagerly lined up for the start of our favourite Saturday pursuit – the parkrun. To be truthful it was a fabulous run, an out and back to halfway across the bridge, with spectacular views. Despite some incline on the way out it all felt OK, particularly a long stretch of downhill on the return. Weather was mild too – absolutely no complaints.

The very best bit was going back to Ros and David’s for tasty sausages, bacon, eggs etc. and lashings of tea and toast. Great to spend time with such lovely people – lots of laughing and exchanging our travel and many Redway Runners memories.

David kindly drove us back to the hotel where we had a quick turn around before heading out for the Severn Bridge again. This time we had to walk the whole way across it, so covering the Coastal Path distance and achieving the retrieval of our car. It was a wee bit more chilly and windy by this time but still a fabulous walk. Cyclists certainly rule the way on this route though – make no mistake! It turned out to be less than 3 miles though so an easy day all round. Hey ho, that’s how the cookie crumbles.