Tales from Helen and Simon Errington as they run the Hertfordshire Way https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/favicon.ico 2021-03-21T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway Simon Errington simon@maprunner.co.uk 2020-10-07T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-1-royston-to-sandon/

In which it all begins

2020-10-11T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-2-sandon-to-weston/

In which we see a lot of chalk and red kites

2020-10-14T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-3-weston-to-little-wymondley/

In which it rains quite a lot and we encounter a yeti

2020-10-18T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-4-little-wymondley-to-whitwell/

In which we are joined by a guest runner

2020-10-28T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-5-whitwell-to-lamer-park/

In which we discover a Hertfordshire sugar beet industry and it rains again

2020-11-01T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-6-lamer-park-to-sandridge/

In which things start getting very familiar but we still find some surprises

2020-11-04T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-7-sandridge-to-verulamium/

In which we leave the car behind and fit in a few chores

2020-11-07T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-8-verulamium-to-flamstead/

In which the River Ver leads us to a Cetti's warbler and a stonechat

2020-11-11T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-9-flamstead-to-great-gaddesden/

In which we see a lot of parkland, sheep and even alpacas

2020-11-15T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-10-great-gaddesden-to-berkhamsted-common/

In which we run through a proper forest and a find a monument rising above it

2020-11-18T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-11-berkhamsted-common-to-bovingdon/

In which we meet a little egret from Essex and we stray into Buckinghamshire

2020-11-22T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-12-bovingdon-to-kings-langley/

In which we misplace a pond and find a marina

2020-11-26T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-13-kings-langley-to-aldenham/

In which Watford provides not one but two kingfishers

2020-12-01T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-14-aldenham-to-shenley/

In which we reach the southernmost point and the Ver meets the Colne

2020-12-20T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-15-shenley-to-south-mimms/

In which our guest runner returns and is taken back to Christmas past

2020-12-24T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-16-south-mimms-to-potters-bar/

In which the bleak midwinter produces mud on mud, mud on mud

2020-12-28T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-17-potters-bar-to-newgate-street/

In which fog hides the views or at least we think it did

2020-12-31T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-18-newgate-street-to-bayford/

In which a remarkable year ends with white wallabies in a Hertfordshire wood

2021-01-02T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-19-bayford-to-waterford/

In which the Hertfordshire Way takes us to Hertford for the first time

2021-01-17T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-20-cuffley-to-wormley-wood/

In which we trudge up and down hill through mud and wonder why

2021-01-22T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-21-wormley-wood-to-hoddesdon/

In which the sun shines, the birds sing and we find a New River

2021-01-29T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-22-hoddesdon-to-great-amwell/

In which we find a black swan and a lot of water

2021-01-31T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-23-great-amwell-to-hertford/

In which we spot mermaids and reach Hertford for the second time

2021-02-10T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-24-waterford-to-thundridge/

In which we take a short detour in the snow

2021-02-13T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-25-thundridge-to-hadham-mill/

In which the mud is frozen solid and four muntjac appear

2021-02-20T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-26-hadham-mill-to-bury-green/

In which we run in circles around mistletoe in Much Hadham

2021-02-27T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-27-bury-green-to-patmore-heath/

In which we decide not to swim out of Bishop's Stortford

2021-03-06T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-28-patmore-heath-to-great-hormead/

In which we are stared at by 95 fallow deer and we wade along the River Ash

2021-03-14T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-29-great-hormead-to-barkway/

In which the deer reappear and the end is almost in sight

2021-03-21T00:00:00Z https://www.maprunner.co.uk/hertsway/post/leg-30-barkway-to-royston/

In which we reach the Roy Stone again and our tale ends