The route is varied. Starting from Chipping Sodbury School, running up the wide High Street and onto Sodbury Common; here's where the mud starts, the common is very marshy even in summer, and becomes very wet and boggy in November making the going especially tough. Strategically placed bales of hay provide ideal obstacles where gates would normally grace your passage (leaving them open would just be too easy).
The first climb then takes you onto the Cotswold Way, over the Roman encampment at Old Sodbury, then down through the woods into the grounds of Little Sodbury Manor, running past the Manor House and out running along the tree lined drive all add to the spectacular scenery of the run and making it unique.
After several watery excursions and through Horton village you find yourself back on Sodbury Common wading through the River Frome. A short road run takes you back to the school in a distance of 9.5 country miles.
A map locating Chipping Sodbury School can be found HERE.
Want to run the whole course in just ten minutes and not even get muddy? Well unless you're some kind of superhero your best bet is to just watch our course flyover. Simply press play on the video below to start the tour.
And just in case that wasn't enough information for you here's a nice graph of the course elevation graph for you. Hilly? You bet.
