Saturday 17 May 2025 - Levengrove parkrun and Geilston Garden

Levengrove Park is a short way by car from Tarbet and the parkrun there proved to be an excellent way to start the day. Parkruns in Scotland start at 9:30, half an hour later than in England, so we enjoyed a lie in and a more leisurely breakfast than usual.

The park, next to where we left the car, enjoys the presence of a recently discovered well.

An energetic chap from South Wales kindly took the next picture. He was using this parkrun as a warm up for an ultra marathon multi day event from Fort William to Cape Wrath. He lapped me before finishing the run and dashing off to Fort William to start the ultra.

Others were loosening up on the warm morning.

We were quite sweaty by the end, with Sue in position 45 and me 98th out of the 145 participants.

We were 26:03 and 32:45 respectively on the three lap hilly course. Some were much slower.

Coffees with some locals at the café by the start and finish were most welcome, as our next destination lacked such a facility.

Moving on, we waved goodbye to the River Leven.

A fifteen minute drive took us to Geilston Garden, a pretty place on the way back to Tarbet.

Well, that was fun. After a pleasant hour in the garden we adjourned to Morrisons for a few days' provisions, then it was back to Loch View to discover that the owner had deposited the acquisitions from a shopping trip in the apartment - we now have a teapot, oven glove, oven trays, casserole dish, kitchen towel, bin liners and a second bin, table mats and lots of beer. He's certainly doing his best.

That's all for today unless Sue has another adventure whilst swimming in Loch Lomond...