The London Loop Is A Great Way To Run...

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Posted:  Thursday, January 12
Runner:  Garrett Turbett

The London Loop is a great way to run a long out and back course and stay mostly off road. From where I live in Enfield, you can link up several country parks woods and trails by staying with the London Loop white and green arrows. My top route: enter Forty Hall by the main entrance and run through the car park and into the wooded section. From here you run along the edge of Whitewebs country park and on to Hilly Fields. You eventually spring up at the Rectory Farm which you will run along some farm track for a short while until you come to the Ridgeway (road A1005) which you cross and head right for about 100 meters on. You then enter the fields heading west, but basically you follow a very obvious and marked path. This path will bring you out onto Hadley roads which you cross over to get into what most think is still Trent Park but is Moat Wood. From here there is endless woodland trails you can run but the easiest option is to stick to the London Loop symbols/markers which will bring you out at Cockfosters station. That route is about 9 miles of fairly tough off road, so I usually head back the same way. The whole route is marked with a white circle with green arrow saying London Loop and it is a great long run... with a cafe at the Trent park main entrance (next to Cockfosters station) for refreshments. Enjoy.

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