Where the path leaves the Thames

Today was a return to exercising in Reading but obviously a very different exercise to the many, many times I’ve run around there in the past. But there was about 10 miles to go before we’d got near Reading which sort of broke down into sections.

The first bit from Goring was along the usual meadows, aside from a diversion which we didn’t know about. All pretty good.

Then we turned away from the river a bit taking the Thames Path route towards Whitchurch and Pangbourne. This was very much an expected hilly section but perhaps the gradient in places was far greater than actually expected.Læs mere