Sunday 22 February 2009

Monday Miles Programme Feb 2009 – June 2009

Feb 23rd Halford/Matalan car park – on left on Woodside Ave Eastleigh
Eastleigh – part of 10K route
Mar 2nd 1st car park Sports Centre
Sheila’s hospital run
Mar 9th turn in to Sholing Road from Pear Tree Avenue and then in to Pear Tree Road to park
Two Bridges
Mar 16th Outside The Crown, Highfield
Highfield
Mar 23rd Sainsbury’s car park Bitterne
Into West End
Mar 30th Entrance to Common opposite The Bellemoor
Through Common towards University
April 6th (Dusk 20:28 )Dear Leap car park, New Forest
Dear Leap
April 13th Easter Monday To be arranged if wanted
April 20th Outside the main entrance to Victoria Country Park
Victoria Country Park Netley
April 27th Outside New Forest Fencing, Mill Lane , Nursling
Across board walk to Testwood Lakes
May 4th Bank Holiday To be arranged if wanted
May 11th Winchester junction 11 M3, 2nd exit at roundabout as if going back on the M3, parking in lay-by on left on Hockley Link
Winchester water meadows
May 18th Ashurst Station car park
Into forest to Dearleap
May 25th Bank Holiday To be arranged if wanted
June 1st Planning White Swan Mansbridge
Itchen Valley Country Park followed by meal/drink and planning.
June 8th Park near school, on left near the start of Underwood Road, Bishopstoke
Stoke Park Eastleigh
June 15th Public car park on left before Waitrose , off Alma Road, Romsey
Along Canal
June 22nd Woodlands, over bridge past Happy Cheese and turn right, parking near telephone box
Through the woods

Monday 9 February 2009

Current Programme Feb 2009

Only two more runs scheduled at the moment


Feb 16th, Sainsbury’s car park , Bitterne, Into Sholing

Planning meeting was a week late, rescheduled because of the snow!

more details coming very soon

Previous Runs

list of previous run locations, good for ideas/planning


Off Road ( light evenings)
  • Ashurst Deerleap Loop, Ashurst Station car park
  • Ashurst to Denny Wood, Ashurst railway station
  • Bishopstoke Stoke Park, Eastleigh, Park near school, on left near the start of Underwood Road (Bishopstoke Eastleigh)
  • Bitterne Park Loop, Bitterne Triangle
  • Itchen Valley Country Park, The Swan car park Mansbridge
  • Sports Centre Lordwood Loop, Sports Centre First Car Park
  • New Forest Dear leap, Dear Leap car park
  • Romsey canal run, Public car park off Alma Road just before Waitrose car park (Romsey)
  • Southampton Common Loop, park on Hill Lane meet at entrance to the Common opposite the Bellemoor
  • Sports Centre Chilworth Loop via golf course, Sports Centre first car park
  • Sports Centre Through the woods to Chilworth, 1st car park, Sports Centre
  • Sports Centre Chilworth Loop via Utopia, 1st car park (Sports Centre)
  • Testwood Lakes, Outside New Forest Fencing (Mill Lane Nursling)
  • Totton to Eling, ASDA car park near the recycling bins (Totton)
  • Victoria Country Park, Netley Outside the main entrance to Victoria Country Park, Netley
  • Winchester water meadows, Winchester junction 11 M3; 2nd exit at roundabout as if going back on the M3 (parking in lay-by on left on Hockley Link )
  • Woodlands run through woods, parking near telephone box (over bridge past Happy Cheese and turn right)
Pavement Runs (Dark Evenings)
  • Ashurst Foxhills, Public car park near Happy Cheese (Ashurst)
  • Bellemoor Into Shirley, Entrance to Common opposite The Bellemoor
  • Bitterne Into Highfield, Bitterne Station car park (Bitterne)
  • Bitterne Into Sholing, Sainsbury’s car park (Bitterne)
  • Bitterne Into West End, Sainsburys car park (Bitterne)
  • Eastleigh 10k route, Halford/ Matalan car park – on left on Woodside Ave (Eastleigh)
  • Highfield Glen Eyre-Chilworth Loop, Outside The Crown (Highfield)
  • Highfield Shirley Loop, Outside The Crown (Highfield)
  • Highfield Swaythling Hills, Crown Pub park nearby
  • Romsey Christmas lights, Public car park on left before Waitrose (off Alma Road Romsey)
  • Romsey Circuit, Public car park off Alma Road just before Waitrose car park Romsey
  • Sheila's Hospital run, 1st Sports Centre car park
  • Southampton Common towards University, Entrance to Common opposite The Bellemoor
  • Totton Rushington circuit, Asda car park Totton near recycling bins,
  • Totton round Calmore, Asda car park Totton near recycling bins
  • Townhill Christmas lights followed by meal, The Swan (Mansbridge)
  • Two bridges from Bitterne, Car park Bitterne railway station
  • Two Bridges from Pear Tree, Pear tree Church (Pear Tree Road)
  • Two Saints - Portswood Road towards Highfield, Solent University car park New Road
  • Victoria Country Park, Entrance to Victoria Country Park
  • West End towards motorway, Netto car park West End
  • West End Rose Bowl Hills, , Netto car park West End
  • Westwood/Weston Shore, Netley Community centre car park opposite the Abbey ruins
  • Woolston To Weston Shore, Woolston- car park under bridge by feather sculpture

Monday Miles Intro

Monday Miles is an ad hoc running group for women runners in the Southampton area in the UK.

The folk who set up Monday Miles had been part of the Southampton Running Sisters beginners course some time in the early nineties which run in the west of the city. Laura Savage was running the course at that time, and Monday Miles was a satelite running group based in the Lordshill area. Current stalwarts are Jan Capstick and Sheila Rogers, and Anne Bradshaw has been a great supporter in the recent past. Monday Miles is not a formal part of Southampton Running Sisters, but is is very popular with their runners who make regular particiants.

Monday Miles run at a different location each week for about 45 mins to one hour, at a gentle pace. Its a sociable group, in winter we try to find imaginative locations and routes, any time that its light in the evenings (we meet at 7.00) then we try to head off road.

Jan and Sheila convene the runs and coordinate the planning meetings. Jan produces a schedule and then we meet and run.

We have a mailing list on google mail, but I think that it would help people find details if we also have a blog, so here it is!

Bit peeved to discover today that some other person has already got monday miles on blogger, so I have had to go for sotonmondaymiles as the id, however I should be able to make it the first find, since its only been used for a couple of postings since 2007, and I plan to use it for each of the monday miles runs which I use. Its ironic really because the first time I set up a blog about running it was for Monday Miles, and that was ages ago, but I got confused about setting it up, and gave the blog a really stupid name. Hey ho, things you learn!