Hi Everyone,

This is our last week of training before many of us leave for the race in Germany.  We have a 7-mile loop on Monday and a 5-mile loop on Wednesday.  Yesterday, I sent out an email to all the trip participants with our final update, the itinerary and the bus lists.  Please let me know if you didn’t receive it for some reason.  (You may want to check your spam folder first.)  The next weekly email will go out on Monday or Tuesday next week after the race.  If you’re not going to the race, you can decide together on your own favourite route for Monday 31 March.  

Mat Pilates Class Update

Angela has worked out a sign up system for the Thursday 10am Mat Pilates class at Pizza Express that we announced last week.  Follow this LINK to get to the google docs sign up page.  If you have any questions you can email her at [email protected].

Keep running,

Jane

ROUTES

Monday 24 March

LONG RUN – 7 miles 

Head to Hyde Park the usual way and run along the eastern edge of the park to Hyde Park Corner.  Cross under the Wellington Arch and run down Constitution Hill to The Mall.  Run a short distance down The Mall, turn left and run along the eastern edge of Green Park to Piccadilly.  Turn left on Piccadilly and run along the northern edge of Green Park back to Hyde Park Corner.  Cross back into Hyde Park and run back up the eastern edge of the park to the Upper Brook Street exit and back to SJW via the normal route.

 

Wednesday, 12 March

SHORT RUN – 5 miles – This is an easy-paced run

Camden/Morningside Crescent/Regent’s Park Loop

We start out on the canal eastbound to Camden Market, where we exit the canal and turn right onto Camden High Street.  We’ll run down Camden High Street to Mornington Crescent Tube Station and veer right onto Hempstead Road, which we will take down to Euston road.  We’ll then go right on Euston to Park Square East, where we will enter Regent’s Park.  We make the first left onto Outer Circle and run around the loop to the Charlbert exit (where we enter for the canal). We’ll run up Charlbert to Allitsen, make a left, and head back to Starbucks.  

Friday 28 March

For those running in Bad Durkheim, we are off to the races! No scheduled run today.  

For those not heading to Germany…

HILL RUN  The Heath

It’s Friday again, so everyone up Fitzjohn’s.  You can pick your distance and whatever you choose, there will certainly be someone else interested in running that distance.  All of these routes are on the website.

In addition, every week there are a group of women who prefer to do a flat run.  We can help make sure that you find each other.  

4 miles:  A great way to ease into running the hill.   Run up to the Hampstead tube station and back.

5 miles: The Betsy Route

6-7 miles:  The partial Heath route

8 miles:  The full Heath route

Click here for maps of all of the Heath routes

NO ROUTE 

Monday 31 March

Most of the group will be returning from Germany.  If you are not travelling, meet as usual at Barclays and pick your favourite route!

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Hi Everyone,

Spring has arrived!  It was so nice to run in short sleeves last week.  We’ve made it to our longest training run of the season – 11 miles to Kew Gardens.  Don’t forget your Oyster card, water and gels.  (We had some of our 11s run to Kew last week and they said the route was great.)

Pilates Mat Class

Angela has arranged a Pilates Mat Class on Thursdays at 10am in the upstairs room of Pizza Express on Abbey Road.  The class is great for stretching and core work and is taught by Ricardo who also teaches at Virgin Active.  The plan is to have 15 people each week so the cost would be £10 each.  Angela is trying to get a sense of interest and then she’ll create a sign-up system.  If you’re interested please email her at [email protected].

Keep running,

Jane

ROUTES

CONDITIONING LONG RUN  Kew

Monday 17 March

Bring your Oyster card!

You’ll be feeling the luck of the Irish today as we do our 11 mile run to the cute ‘village’ of Kew.  We start out the normal way running to Hyde Park.  Once in the Park, we’ll turn to the left and run down the main walkway as we regularly do, to parallel Park Lane.  At the end of the walk, turn right to follow the main cross route in the park—beware of the bike lane!  When this ends at West Carriage Drive, cross the road at the crossing and continue on the pathway towards the bottom right corner of Hyde/Kensington Park.  We’ll run out of the Park at the Broadwalk, turning right onto Kensington High Street and continue for about two miles until we reach the Hammersmith Tube gyratory.  Run counter clockwise towards the left, ending up on Queen Caroline Street which gets you to St. Paul’s Church green.  Run along the Green to the right, heading to and crossing over Hammersmith Bridge. Exit Hammersmith Bridge Road to your left and run under it onto the Thames footpath.  Now it’s time to enjoy the view as we run along the Thames for almost four miles—it’s beautiful!  Exit the footpath just after going under Kew Bridge, heading left from the Thames; run along this road [Kew Road] for about a third of a mile, veering left on Mortlake Road, then shortly thereafter turn right on Cumberland Road, which will merge into Kew Gardens Road. You’ll do a turn to the left onto Station Approach [follow the Kew Gardens Station signs].  There is a Starbucks around the small bend where we’ll all meet up to congratulate ourselves on such a great run!

 

 

TEMPO RUN  The Wall

Wednesday 19 March

Run South on Finchley/Wellington Road to the SJW Church Roundabout, follow the sidewalk to the left and cross Prince Albert Road at the crosswalk just beyond the SJW Church.  Continue east and enter the canal at the Charlbert entrance.  Run east [left], cutting through the Camden Lock Market until you run out of canal path at Islington.  Touch the canal boat tunnel wall—this is The Wall!—then turn around and re-trace your steps back to SJW.  When you come off the canal at Regents Park, take Charlbert to Allitsen to SJW High Street to Starbucks.

HILL RUN  The Heath

Friday 21 March

 

It’s Friday again, so everyone up Fitzjohn’s.  You can pick your distance and whatever you choose, there will certainly be someone else interested in running that distance.  All of these routes are on the website.

In addition, every week there are a group of women who prefer to do a flat run.  We can help make sure that you find each other.  

 

4 miles:  A great way to ease into running the hill.   Run up to the Hampstead tube station and back.

5 miles: The Betsy Route

6-7 miles:  The partial Heath route

8 miles:  The full Heath route

 

Click here for maps of all of the Heath routes

 

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Hi Runners,

A massive CONGRATULATIONS to our Beginner group who ran to Canary Wharf on Thursday.  They started this journey in September by running one minute and walking two and in a few weeks they’ll run a half marathon!  I’m looking forward to celebrating together.  THANK YOU to their coaches Syma, Betsy and Bonnie!

We’ll done to everyone for getting in the 10-mile run last week. I know many of you had conflicts on Monday so you ran on Sunday or modified the route to loop back. That’s great.  The most important thing is to clock the mileage. For those of us who ran to Greenford, we were rewarded by running along a beautiful stretch of the canal. Once you pass the Wembley exit, it feels like you’re in the English countryside.

This week our long run is the Big Ben loop.  Remember, good training means not continually adding mileage. We’ll step back to 8 miles this week.  We ran this route in the fall and many of us took the tube home from Westminster.  I hope you’re proud of how far we’ve come this year!  We’re also done with our Speed training for the year. Wednesday we return to our standard tempo training with the Kensal Rise loop.  You should be running faster than the Monday long-run pace, but not as fast as our speed work.

Video Filming

Thanks for all your work to contribute to our annual video.  If you haven’t had a chance to be involved, we’ll be filming on Wed and Friday mornings.  Please join us- we want as many women as possible to be a part of the video so filming on those days will focus on those who have not attended a filming session yet. The video directors promise this will be easy, just wear normal running clothes.  Wednesday we will be filming as part of the normal run along the canal at the Puppet Barge.  Friday we need to do a few scenes at Starbucks before we start our run.  Thanks again for all your help!

Race Numbers

The race confirmation letters were emailed on Thursday by the race director. You need to print this letter and bring it with you.  If you didn’t receive it, check your SPAM folder.

Keep running,

Jane

ROUTES

LONG RUN – 8 miles

Monday 10 March

Big Ben and back

For this run we head to Hyde Park via the usual route and run along the eastern edge of the park to Hyde Park Corner, under the arch and down Constitution Hill.  Run passed the Victoria Memorial down the mall and enter St. James Park.  Run over the pond and out of the park, turning left onto Birdcage Walk and down into Parliament Square to Big Ben, then turn around and run the same route back to Starbucks.

SHORT RUN – 6 miles – This is a regular-paced run, there will be no more speed work leading up to the half-marathon

Wednesday, 12 March

Kensal Rise

The beginning of this run takes us along the canal to the west.  Please be aware of bikes along the canal and move into single file whenever you hear a ‘bike!’ shout.

Start out heading west on Circus Road, turn left on Grove End to St John’s Wood Road and go west working your way to the canal entrance on Blomfield.  Enter the canal heading west and run to the Ladbroke Grove exit.  Here we turn right and run over the bridge along Chamberlayne Road to Harvist Road. Turn right on Harvist, which turns into Brondesbury Road, and take that to Kilburn High Road/Maida Vale.  Turn right and follow Maida Vale to Hall Road where you turn left and run back to Starbucks. If you want to shorten this route, run west on the canal and turn back at your desired half-way point.

(The two mile mark is at the point on the canal when the Westway highway is over our heads.)

HILL RUN  The Heath

Friday 14 March

It’s Friday again, so everyone up Fitzjohn’s.  You can pick your distance and whatever you choose, there will certainly be someone else interested in running that distance.  All of these routes are on the website.

In addition, every week there are a group of women who prefer to do a flat run.  We can help make sure that you find each other.

4 miles:  A great way to ease into running the hill.   Run up to the Hampstead tube station and back.

5 miles: The Betsy Route

6-7 miles:  The partial Heath route

8 miles:  The full Heath route

Click here for maps of all of the Heath routes

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Website:  https://womenrunningtheworld.commm

Facebook Group:  Women Running The World (request to join)

Email: [email protected]