parkrun and Moore

@steevc just finished a 4.99km run, that lasted for 27 minutes.
This run helped steevc burn 347.0 calories.

Description from Strava:
After having to miss parkrun due to a bad back it was good to be there at Henlow Bridge Lakes again today. I am just about recovered and able to run, but I do get the odd twinge. There was a good crowd there today, but I saw on Strava that some friends are on holiday.

I just went with how I felt today and it went well even though plenty of people overtook me. My legs felt fine, so I pushed on. I even managed to overtake some people near the finish to come in just under 27 minutes. That is one of my better times this year.

I have to say that I really like my Garmin watch as a convenient way to track my runs, but I prefer Strava for the statistics. Luckily the two integrate very well and then I can automatically get my run reports onto Hive. I saw that Garmin and Strava are falling out over features and patents. I hope they can sort that out.

I had to get home as we were planning to go out. I had showed my other half this post by @sjarvie5 (plus more here) about the Henry Moore Studios and Gardens. We had seen signs to this and so I knew it was not too far away.

The studios are in the village of Perry Green near Much Hadham in Hertfordshire. To get there you have to go down some narrow little lanes that require some careful driving with blind turns and having to let others pass the other way at some points. These places are very pretty though with some really old buildings.

The ticket office, shop and cafe are in a fairly modern building. It costs £19.50 for an adult with various concessions and family tickets. That pays for you to go back any time within a year and we probably will. The site is huge with the various studios, gardens, fields and woodland featuring sculptures scattered around.

They give you a map to show where the sculptures are, but it helps to scan their QR code at reception to get more information on each of them. Moore was born in 1898, served in the first world war and then was active as an artist into the 1980s. His works are on display all over the world. He made several copies of some so they can be on show around his home. We were told that a number of them will be moved to an exhibition at Kew Gardens soon, so if we go next year there should be others to see.

We found a friendly cat there that followed us for a while.

A lot of his work is on a large scale and you can walk inside it. You are allowed to touch. They are mostly hollow bronze.

There is an old barn that Moore had moved there and it contains a series of tapestries based on his paintings.

There are several studio buildings that give some idea of how he worked. He got a lot of ideas from nature such as bones and stones. He would create small models and then scale them up.

The autumn leaves made a nice background to the art. It will look different in other seasons. I like the faces on the family group.

We had a walk though the woods and then went to the cafe for lunch.

After lunch we walked up the road (no footpath) to the small village church. I think it was locked up, so we did not see inside.

There we found the simple graves of Henry and his wife Irina. On his it just has:

HENRY
MOORE
1898
1986
SCULPTOR

She died three years after him.

It was a nice day out and we will be back next year. They shut down for the winter at the end of this month.

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https://www.strava.com/activities/16102589943

About the Athlete: Older guy trying to keep fit, but still hope to go quicker.

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