This morning a 10 miles and 1,400 feet walk/jog in 2.20 around the gloriously quiet Staffordshire Moorlands to recce this weeks RATRun. Glad I did recce as the route goes through so many farms and farmland where the footpaths are not marked and, due to even less footfall in current times, are not obvious on the ground.
On one stile prior to entering a property a sign informed me that the path was closed due to a Covid patient being in the house through whose garden the path went. Looked official and put up jointly by the Peak Park and Health Authority.
Apart from 4 women having a picnic in the middle of a moorland path that I had to avoid I saw no one. Plenty of wildlife including hare, heron, buzzard, kestrel.