Hi everyone,

Thanks for your flexibility with the route on Monday.  We had a few runners head out to Canary Wharf and many runners who took the route through Farringdon, but then headed east out to the Tower of London for a viewing of the Poppies.   It’s a good reminder to always bring your Oyster card because sometimes we do change plans on the day.  Sorry we didn’t advertise it ahead of time, but I took the good suggestion from others that morning.

Wednesday was a classic London day, pouring rain at 7:45 and sun by 8:45.  Friday was just straight pouring rain, but we still had a good turnout to run up the hill.  You never know what we’ll get from the London weather – just come out and run!

This week we head out to Putney Bridge on Monday, Kensal Rise on Wednesday and back up the Hill on Friday.   There’s a speaker at ASL on Wednesday so we’ll wait until early December to do our Paddington Bear run.

Good luck racers!

We have many current and former WRW members meeting in Las Vegas this weekend to run a half marathon.  Good luck from London to Molly Ashford, Susan Breeden, Colleen Crescenti, Kelly Ezickson, Peggy Ford, Christine Galiardo, Lynn Gilbert, Jill Granader, Lisa Hill, Georgine Hoffman, Lynne Hodge, Mindy Hollar, Francesca Howell, Colleen Kirkley, Betsy LaMaster, Mee Lee, Becky Lindon, Dorrie Marks, Kathy McMahon, Paula Mitchell, Carmine Najjar, Ariadne Petrucelli, Danya Roberts, Sue Rushmore, Diane Schlinkert, Pam Shields and Traci Tipple.  We hope you have a great race!

Training Plans

We’ve posted two training plans on the website for the April 19 half marathon in Italy.  There’s our standard training plan and also a gradual plan for runners who don’t want to tackle as many miles as part of training.

Foam Roller Exercises

In case you missed it on our Facebook page, here’s a link to Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop website that did a post on different exercises and stretches using a foam roller, complete with photos.

Feedback on shirts

We’re starting to plan the WRW shirt for this year and we’d love to get some feedback from you.  We can’t take everyone’s suggestion but we’d love to hear your preferences.  How do you feel about no-sleeve, short-sleeve, or long-sleeve, maybe with a half zip?  Any color requests?  Any great ideas for a slogan?

Finally, here’s part of Friday’s very wet group in front of the Hampstead tube station.

Keep running,

Jane

ROUTES

Monday 17 November – Putney High Street (7.75 miles)

We’ll start out with our usual trek to Hyde Park, turning right along the southern path until we get to the One Hyde Park complex where we’ll turn left, passing through to Sloane Street and running south all the way to the Thames [keep an eye out for some great window shopping!].  Turn right and run along the north side of the river on Embankment/Cheyne Walk.  Just before Lots Road, turn right onto Cremorne Road which becomes Ashburnham Road.  Turn left onto Kings Road and run through Chelsea, Parsons Green, all the way to its end at Fulham High Street.  Turn left, crossing the Putney Bridge and run to the Starbucks on the left hand side of the street [past Fulham Bridge Road].  Stop, stretch and stay for a coffee!  We’ll take the train home from the Putney Station to Waterloo, then transfer to the Jubilee Line to SJW.

***If you want to have a 3.5 mile option, run to the Sloane Square Tube station and take the Tube home.***

Wednesday 19 November – Kensal Rise (6 miles)

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.

 

Friday 21 November – 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.