Hello ladies

Thanks for another great week of running!  ASL is on holiday Monday so it will be a smaller group.  I won’t be there on Monday either, but I’ll see you Wednesday.  Read on for some great offers including a yoga class, exercise and training options and sports massage…

German Trip-

As a reminder, after you make your travel arrangements, please make sure to email Patricia Shelton ([email protected]).  We need to keep track of our numbers for the bus and hotel room block.  She needs to know:

1.  your race registration number

2.  total race cost (either 27 or 45 euros depending on whether you got a shirt)

3.  flight information

4.  room preference (single or double) and roommate, if known.

New “Offers” Web Page-

Our group receives offers from various organisations from time to time.  Some may be on our Experts page and others may not.  We have created a new page to feature these offers.  Although some of our members may have patronised these organisations, we don’t always have enough knowledge about them to add them to our Experts page at this time.  Please let us know if you have a good experience so we can evaluate them for inclusion on the Experts page.  There is some great stuff listed there now including a Tuesday morning Yoga Class in St. John’s Wood, a Boot Camp exercise class, and Aerobic Capacity Training for runners.

Sports Massage

There are so many benefits to sports massage.  Sports massage is good for injury prevention, rebalancing the musculoskeletal system and loosening tight muscles to reduce stress on joints.  It also improves circulation therefore increasing oxygen and nutrient availability and removal of toxin build up. It breaks down adhesions and scar tissue that are formed from the repetitive nature of running.  Tracey Tofts, who works at APPI Hampstead, gives an excellent massage!  Her contact details are on our Experts page.

Facebook Group

If you haven’t yet, please join our Facebook group, Women Running The World.  (You will need to request to join.)  It is a great way to share fun running and non-running photos, updates and information.  (For example, this week we learned that Maureen Fossum’s daughter Emily is available to pet sit.  You can email Emily at [email protected])

Big Congratulations!

Well done to all our runners who completed races last weekend.  I’ve heard good reports from all of you!  I’m also happy to report that Paula Mitchell finished the Grand to Grand Ultra in 41st place overall (out of 113), and 9th for all women!  WOW!  We are so proud of all of you!

Keep running!

XO

Jane

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ROUTES THIS WEEK

Monday is a no-school day for ASL so expect that the groups may be a bit small today.  Feel free to experiment if you’d like but we’re scheduling two of our ‘standard’ routes so that everybody can get comfortable with them.

 

LONG RUN —Monday 7th October for the 9’s and 10’s

                 Wednesday, 9th October for the 11’s and 12’s

 

Hyde Park—always versatile! 4, 6 or 8 miles, your choice:

Click here for all of the Hyde Park interactive route maps

Start:  Everybody starts the same way… head west on Circus Road, turn left on Grove End Road and follow south as it becomes Lisson Grove.  Cross over Marylebone Road and continue on Seymour Place until the end.  Turn right and cross over Edgware Road and then take the first left on Stanhope Place to enter Hyde Park at the intersection with Stanhope Place. Cross into the Park—you’ll see a silver orb just inside the park.

 

4 Milers:  turn left, follow the carriage drive to the exit by the Animals in War memorial [near food kiosk], follow Upper Brook Street to Park Street, where you turn left.  Park Street becomes Gloucester Place, then merges into Park Road and takes you back to SJW.  At the SJW Church roundabout, veer right to the crosswalk which goes to the SJW High Street. 

6 Milers: upon entering the park, turn right at the silver sphere and run until you meet N Carriage Road where you turn left.  Run down to the Serpentine, crossing over the bridge then left to run along the Serpentine. At the end of the Serpentine, turn left again and make your way to the eastern edge of the park before exiting at the Upper Brook St/Animals in War exit.  Continue along Upper Brook Street to Park Street, turn left, take it to Park Road and into SJW.

8 Milers: follow the 6 mile run but do not turn left at No Carriage Rd, instead cross over [this is tricky, be careful] and follow until you reach the large broadwalk where you turn left.  Run past Kensington Palace (on your right) and take a left to run along the southern edge of the park towards Hyde Park Corner, then turn left on the eastern edge and exit at Upper Brook St/Animals in War exit as above.  Take Upper Brook Street to Park Street [left] to Park Road and home to SJW.

TEMPO RUN:  Wednesday, 9th October for 9’s and 10’s

         Monday, 7th October for 11’s and 12’s

 

Kensal Rise – 4 or 6 miles, your choice

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.)

 

 

Friday 11, October – The Heath (4-8 miles)

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 so feel free to group up if you prefer not to run the hills.  

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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