Running in the heat of Spain

I have been in Valencia a week and ran almost every day. I love running in the heat of summer - perhaps it reminds me of my first marathon in the Stockholm mid-summer sun or the glorious rays of the half-marathon in Palma beneath an Autumn but very warm Spanish sky.

But there has been another reason I have been drawn to running here, the amazing Jardin del Turia, the drained river that now serves as the lungs of the city and is quite simply the greatest park I have visited - Central Park has nothing on this.