7 Hills of Edinburgh

Forecast was rain all day so rather than running out in the hills I chose to do a recce of the 7 hills or Edinburgh race which was on my list of things to do. 

The race starts on Calton Hill and goes on to visit the remaining 6 hills before finishing again at Calton Hill. Route is Calton Hill, Castle Rock, Corstorphine Hill, Easter Craiglockhart, Braids, Blackford, Arthurs Seat, Calton Hill and is around 22.6km

Really only needed to recce the bit up to Corstorphine then all the way to Craiglockhart but thought it would be nice to do the whole thing and the Seat/Castle wouldn't be that busy in the rain.

8th photo is of the Womens Cycle tour of Scotland. The main race had already past me on Queens Drive but this is the start of the community / children's race. Ultra record holder Mark Beaumont is posing at the start line on a hire bike alongisde other local celebs. He didn't actually go on to race on it