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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