Nice to see some of my comments have caused some interest from yesterday anyway!
I try to be open minded and if pembrey country park is left in a bad way after the festival, i will be the first to complain!
With this festival closing the doors to the country park this week, we really should appreciate it that much more from now on shouldn’t we? And the entire coastline when you think about it.
Jean for instance is well known to use the coastal path and beyond in her training, she swears by it and is pretty annoyed its closed this week (the country park)!
If you don’t use the great outdoors, such as the country park regularly, then shouldn’t you start using it a lot more, not only to enjoy the scenery but to do a whole range of workouts?
You have some great running conditions on the hard sand on the beach, i used to use this for my marathon training and usually do 12 miles every friday. From the car park on the left as you go in all the way to the bombing rane should make sure you get around 1 hour 40 minutes of running in, you can run so far down before you notice all the tornado’s coming overhead!! This is a sign to turn back as well as all the signs and barbed wire of course!!
There are great cycle routes there too, all the way around the park and its so vast that sometimes you can get lost, as even i have done several times! I would start off on shorter conservative routes to begin with, and be more adventerous from there as it can take a long time to know the park, and i don’t think anyone gets to know it all down there!
There are also various hills you can sprint up, from hills in the heavily wooded area, to a crazy hill on the right hand side of the ski slope, that jean herself remembers well, this takes some kind of effort i can tell you, and you be a very good barometer on your fitness!!
There are lots of park benches too you can do press ups, step ups and arm dips on and the point of all of this is to state that this is a magnificent place not only to walk, but to get some hardcore workouts in too.
This week’s closure makes me appreciate it all the more, i can’t wait to get down there and experience all its riches from now on!!
God I miss the country park, its not only this week, its the next 6 to 8 weeks, for the clean up. Managed to get in tho, but not my usual route, and could’nt go to the usual haunts, still I enjoyed went deeper into the forest.
thought they wouldnt keep you out! well done jean and will keep you informed of what happens down there, last thing we need is trouble so hopefully it will be okay. The organisers will be flat out to make money thats for sure.
got to say, everyone i know who went down to pembrey country park this week thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and the general feeling i hear from locals is they didnt mind it, and it was nice it was coming into the area.
Also, the local business could have tendered for the work going ,but some didnt get it due to competition, which is always fair.
its easy to be negative, but good to see it went off without any trouble and lots of fun.