Vale Park sits between North East Road and the Torrens, and the river you see there is not where it originally ran. It was artificially diverted through 1968 and 1969. Ascot Avenue carries most of the traffic out.
The Linear Park. Torrens Linear Park runs along the river through Vale Park, and along with the O-Bahn corridor it makes up a serious slice of the suburb’s open space. It is where Vale Park walks, runs and rides.
That is genuinely good for you, and it is also where the most common problem I see from this suburb comes from. Flat, continuous, endlessly extendable paths make it very easy to add distance faster than your tissue can adapt to it. The result arrives as Achilles pain that is worst in the first ten steps of the morning, shin pain that shows up at the same point in every run, or a knee that starts complaining at a predictable distance.
None of that is a running-technique problem, and almost none of it needs a scan. It is a loading problem, and it gets fixed by loading properly rather than resting, which is close to the opposite of the standard advice.
Vale Park Primary has been on the ground since 1964, and school sport brings the other half of what I see from here.
You are a short run up the road. Same side of the river, four minutes in the car, free parking at the door.