I'm really enjoying all this advice as I tend to run to and from the gym.

Trouble is I live right down Stanstead Road and the route that offers the most distance is uphill to Blythe Hill Fields, Downhill to Gladiator Rd and onto HOP high street. From there its uphill AGAIN as far as One Tree Hill before finally flattening out and turning down hill at Honor Oak Road down to the petrol station and onto London Road and the gym.

It's two miles that feels a lot like five. But for all the effort, you have some lovely views and fairly quiet paths