Exploring a new direction

Back to true exploring this week, as my long run took me in a new direction, by which I mean running southwards, into the centre of Devon rather than east-west along the coast. Living so close to the North Devon shore, it has been natural to run along the sea line but this week my running partner and I took a turn downwards, across the heart of the county towards Dartmoor.

We ran from Bideford to nearly Okehampton and back again. Looking at the map afterwards I was impressed by just how much of the countryside we had covered- almost half of the entire length of Devon, which means if we had run in a point-to-point route instead of turning around we could have run from coast to coast. Devon is the only county in England with two coastlines and we could have run from one to the other; from the Bristol Channel to the English Channel. I find that so satisfying! And it's given me an idea for another mission to do after doing the whole of the coastal path through North Devon. If I had ran the width and length of the land I think I would really be able to say I had run-explored in Devon.