Hi everyone,
Welcome back to a normal week of running. We’ve been a bit off schedule with ASL school trips and fall break. If you’ve been busy and missed a run or two, please come join us again! If you can run consistently, it’s best for your fitness/training and will help you avoid injury. Besides it’s fun! (Well, at least the coffee part is fun…)
Sorry I missed the Borough Market run on Friday. I’m running the Royal Parks half marathon on Sunday so I was resting my legs. We have a large group of runners doing the race and we have a group going to cheer us on as well, more details are below.
Monday we return to the Sloane Square, Embankment, Westminster route which gives us lots of options for distance. If you haven’t run in awhile it’s a good route to build some mileage. Remember to bring your Oyster card because we’ll take the tube home. Wednesday we head to The Wall and Friday we’re back up the hill.
Good Luck Royal Parks Half Marathon Runners!
We have 15 WRW runners in the Royal Parks Half Marathon on Sunday 11 October. Good luck to Jenni Barnett, Erin Collins, Mary Duffy, Maureen Fossum, Stephanie Gladis, Kathy Groom, Poornima Guruprasad, Alysia Hoyt, Leslie Kohler, Rekha Kumar, Leah Neenan, Jane Novak, Jen Skor, Holly Bell Stevens and Nesrin Tisdale. We hope you have a great race!
Cheering on the runners
If you would like to go support the runners, Vicky Timbers is organizing a group to meet at the St. John’s Wood tube stop at 8:15am on Sunday morning. Email Vicky ([email protected]) if you would like to join the group so she knows to look out for you. Wear your yellow hat from Padua (if you have one) so the runners can easily spot you. Thanks so much! We really appreciate the support!
Facebook Group
If you haven’t yet, please join our Facebook group, Women Running The World. (You will need to request to join.) It’s a great way to share fun running and non-running photos, updates and information.
Goals
Over these next few weeks, think about your goals for the year. Would you like to participate in the half-marathon in the spring? If so, would you like to target a certain finish time or just plan to run a strong race regardless of time? We’ll have training tips to help you reach your goals.
Keep running,
Jane
ROUTES
Monday 12 October – Sloane Sq/Westminster/Green Park–3.75 to 7/10 miles
We start out by running to Hyde Park, taking the usual route: west on Circus Road, left on Grove End, all the way down to Seymour Place where the road ends. Right on Seymour, across Edgware, left on Stanhope and enter the park. At the silver orb, turn left and run down to the southern edge, following the path to the right before it leaves the Park. Run to big gated exit before the tall ‘One Hyde Park’ complex, cross over Knightsbridge at William Street, quick right on Knightsbridge then a left onto Sloane Street.
3.75’ers: at Sloane Square, take the Tube home!
6.33’ers: continue past Sloane Square down Lower Sloane St/Chelsea Bridge Road to the Thames. Turn left on the Thames side of Grosvenor Rd and run along the Embankment to Westminster Tube–you’re done!
7+’ers: continue left on Birdcage Walk, cutting through St James Park to the Mall, then left on the Mall towards Buckingham Palace, crossing before the circle to reach Green Park. Run up to the Green Park Tube on Piccadilly St and take the tube home!
10 milers: for anyone wanting a longer run today, continue past Green Park Tube, through Mayfair and Marylebone to Baker Street and head to SJW Starbucks–this will give you 10 miles.
Wednesday 14 October – The Wall (3 to 6 miles)
We head down towards Regents Park, then enter the canal at the Charlbert entrance and run east [left] cutting through Camden Lock Market until we run out of canal path at Islington. At The Wall, we turn around and head back to St. John’s Wood. This is a great route to do a tempo run because there are no traffic lights. Please be aware of the bikes on the path and move into single file on the inside (away from the water) when they are approaching.
If you run all the way to The Wall and back it is 6 miles. But it is very easy to run half the distance if you want and turn around and head home. As a marker, if you run to the Camden market (where we have to exit the canal path and run past the food stalls for a minute) and return home it is a 3 mile round trip.
Friday 16 October – The Heath (4-8 miles)
We run up the hill on Fridays–it’s tradition! It is hard, but you’ll feel great when you are finished.
Every week there is usually a group of women who prefer to do a flat run. We can help make sure that you find each other if you are not running the hills this week.
4 miles: A great way to ease into running the hill. Run up to the Hampstead tube station and back. If you have trouble running up, think about how easy it will be running down!
5 miles: The Betsy Route
6-7miles: The partial Heath route
7.5 miles: The Highgate route
8 miles: The full Heath route
Click here for maps of all of the Heath routes.