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Skybird
09-30-21, 02:49 PM
This 10 minutes-video was not meant to be, but my Mum asked me how my jogging is going, I restarted with that again this year after years of a break and she knows I have vulnerable shinbones (I must take big care of shin splinters although I ran for 20 years, and too much stress from martial arts training in my youth). And so I made this video originally only for my parents to show them the track I am running, or better: slowly jogging. For living in an urban area, I am lucky to have it available. Most people living in towns and cities probably must run tarmac all the time.

The tiny forest you see is so small that I think of it more in terms of a park. Due to the clever Skybirdian design of plotted courses :cool:, running it lets it appear much bigger than it is. But do not get misled: it covers only around 350 x 350m, with some extensions beyond the rims here and there, nevertheless I squeeze 3km of racetrack into that , 60% of the total distance I jog. I run an outer loop counter-clockwise, an inner loop clockwise, and then the outer loop again but clockwise as well. That way all the time the sights never repeat themselves.

I found the sequence in the woods to be very relaxing and almost meditative, and so I added music to it that you already know by now, and post it.

My total distance which I run twice a week, is 5km, 1km to get there, 3 km in the park, and the same 1km back home. I take around 30 minutes for that, so that is no competitive running, really just a laid back jogging. Heck, I'm 54 and have not run since over a decade, so what do you expect... I could go longer by stamina and breath, but my bones don't like that anymore... that I lost 15 kg this year before starting to run again, certainly helps. :D

Maybe you find it relaxing, too. Hope you enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kPR7MLOF4

Reece
10-01-21, 02:06 AM
You passed the old geezer in blue twice and almost ran a family over!!!:D
Good stuff Sky! :up:

Jimbuna
10-01-21, 05:04 AM
Very nice but I suspect not so much on a dark evening.