Challenge 3: Murrayfield Loop: Length, 10k. Difficulty, 1/10

Challenge 3:
Length, Long: 10k
Difficulty: 1/10
Time approx:1hour
Incine: 135feet
Max Height: 292m
Start position: Roseburn Park (Murrayfield)
End Position: Back to the Park
Terrain: Mixed, road, canal path, wooded track.
Items needed: Shoes

This run is pretty darn easy and is a lovely one to do on a nice sunny day.  It starts and ends at Murrayfield, the international rugby stadium, Well the park just at the front of it, which is called Roseburn park.

You can park your car right beside the park for free, any day of the week but there are not many spaces so you may be hunting for a while. 

The first section of the run is towards the city centre, you run past Donaldson's School for the deaf, and past Haymarket train station. You then do a short hill up Morrison street and then take a right and head to Edinburgh Quay where the bar/club Cargo is. This is the start of the Union Canal which goes from Edinburgh to Glasgow (via the Falkirk wheel)  

That is pretty much all the uphill that you are going to encounter on this run. For the next 3.5k you are running along the canal which is as flat as a…. canal.

You run out to the viaduct where the canal crosses over the Lanark Road and then next viaduct just before you start to go over it you take the steps off to the right which takes you down to the Slateford/water of Leith visitor centre and you then start to make your way back to Murrayfield via the path that follows the Water of Leith.  

This path has a lot more twists and turns, you are more in the trees and the ground is more gravel and earth rather than road and path.

Once you get to the Stenhouse road, you cross over and keep following the water, this then takes you to the Saughton park where there is a skatepark and then you are on the last 2k home.

At the moment the path is blocked due to some rail works just at the railway pass before Murrayfield so I had to do a little diversion via Sainsbury's and around the front of Murrayfield to get back to the park.

But otherwise it is just a case of follow the water and you get back to the park.

Challenge:

+1 point for ever minute faster than an hour 

-1 point for ever minute slower than an hour