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The run in Wales

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  So we're in Wales for the weekend. It is accepted now in my family that running is something I do, and it means I could pick my shoes up and choose my time and route and go! A luxury, and I'm not even sarcastic.     I quickly discovered, when plotting a route in an unknown place, that some roads are friendlier for this than others, and definitely avoid planning running along the motorway. That meant country roads, wounding and turning over hills, valleys, hills and valleys, hills-and-valleys, through villages and along pretty things.   (Photo of pretty things once I remember how to do it).                                Uncle Google gave me 3 possible routes but even uncle Google said the routes may not be walkable at times, and to exercise caution. The other running apps gave me their options. I kind of memorised a hybrid route of all of them, that I made up from the segments I could be absolutely sure they were walking friendly. So that was a bit anxiety-induci