The rusty sign in this blog's title banner is located along the High Street in Eton, England. It's an original route marker from the legendary 1908 London Olympic Marathon, the first official distance (26.2 mile) marathon in history. One of my favorite long runs is a loop from Uxbridge (where I live) to Windsor, a route which overlaps for many miles with the 1908 marathon course.
A great thing about running to Windsor is you get to run in the massive and beautiful Windsor Great Park. It's about nine miles from Uxbridge to Windsor town centre, so 18 miles round trip, and you can easily add on to that by running as long as you like in Great Park. The roads in the park are virtually traffic free, although you may have to dodge some deer on the 'Long Walk' en route to the park. There's a steep uphill section, crowned by an equestrian statue of George III, but the altitude affords great views of Windsor Castle, and of a good stretch of southern England for that matter.
I recently ran the below 26-mile loop (7:10 pace) that took me through Windsor Great Park for several miles:
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