This route has one optional loop at around mile 4
- Go right round tennis courts along castle grounds
- Turn right under subway leading onto Glascote Road
- Continue up the Glascote Road to Sheepcote Lane Island
- Turn right onto Marlborough Road
- Follow the paths/pavements keeping to the right
- Cross over the A5 bypass roundabout, passing Morrisons and reaching Watling Street roundabout.
- Continue straight on to Ninian Way
- Turn right at T Junction into Hedging Lane
- Turn right at T Junction onto Tamworth Road, Dosthill
- (Optional loop around Blackwood Road)
- Cross over Watling Street at traffic lights
- Continue on Tamworth Road all the way down to the Junction with Balti 2000 takeaway on your right
- Turn right and go left over A5 bypass bridge with pub on your left
- Follow Kettlebrook Road and turn left onto Campion Drive
- Turn right onto Peelers way
- Under bridge and left round castle grounds back to skate park (or back over wobbly bridge via Snowdome)