Wanted an easy run today as racing tomorrow - and also, as it's a weekend, to run somewhere useful to link things up. The original plan was to do Longtown to Ewyas Harold Common and back, but checked the distance and came to 15k with 400m ascent, which is more than I wanted.
Plan B was to return to Skenfrith, and do the next bit up to Garway, since I want to do a race there this summer. Lovely warm morning when out of the wind (which was fierce to start with). Taking it quite easy up the road looking at all the nice cows.
Don't know Garway itself very well, but it's a nice place to come to, and about as typically Herefordshire as anywhere could get. Looped the common and then headed back down a road which I don't think has seen any through traffic for many years (nowhere-nowhere but with a farm and 4 shut gates in the middle - farmer seemed pretty chirpy though).
Did a few bits extra in Skenfrith to get to 11k, noting that watch lost a bit by the river on the way out (under dense trees alongside steep hill - not surprising really).
Had a decent look around the castle after - much easier when not in the middle of a run and feeling ill. Accosted, and then followed, by a black and white cat for some time before it found somebody else to fuss it.
Drove over to Longtown via Cross Ash and the lane to Pandy, which seems to be far better than the B road to Abergavenny. Great views of the mountains from a perspective I've never considered before - Three Castles Walk is getting further up the list now.
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