London Training Log
Date: 2nd April 2007
Conditions: Warm, Dry
Notes: Having been sent to London on a training course with work I was really looking forward to doing some running in the Capital.
We were staying right on the river in between the Tower Bridge and the Millenium Eye. To get to where I was training each morning we walked across the London Bridge and the sights were amazing.
On the first night I decided to head towards the Tower Bridge and run across it and then back down the river on the opposite side. The run there was amazing and running across the Bridge was fantastic.
Once across I ran down the South side of the river and eventually crossed back over the London Bridge to where I started. The run took me around twenty minutes so I decided to do the loop again as I enjoyed it that much.
In all I ran for around forty minutes and probably ran around four to five miles, however include the many flights of stairs I had to climb at the start and finish of each bridge and coupled with the constant dodging of people it was probably getting on five and a half miles in all.
Having finished I felt fantastic and jubilant and could not wait for the next night, when I would be heading in the opposite direction, towards the Millenium Eye.
Positive: Running in London felt fantastic.
Negative: I was constantly dodging people throughout.
Days to Edinburgh Marathon: 54
Run Time: N/T
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The Five Boroughs
"There's more to this place than Manhattan"
Staten Island
"Only the first half mile is spent on Staten Island as you immediately leave across the Varrazano-Narrows bridge into Brooklyn"
Brooklyn
"Almost half the race is spent in Brooklyn, where many different neighbourhoods and cultural changes are passed through"
Queens
"The race enters Queens at exactly the half way point by crossing the Pulalski Bridge, over Newton creek, where you get your first amazing view of the City. The next 3 miles are spent here until crossing the challenging Queensboro Bridge over the East river."
Manhattan
"The first of two visits into Manhattan comes at mile 16 as you leave the Queensboro Bridge. Greeted by thousands of screaming spectators makes this one of the most memorable moments of the race, before the 4 mile stretch up First Avenue towards the Bronx"
Bronx
"At mile 20 you cross the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx where little over a mile is run before returning to Manhattan across the Madison Avenue Bridge, where you see the Yankee Stadium, which has to be the highlight of the short trip across the Harlem river"
Manhattan 2
"As you arrive back in Manhattan the course proceeds down Fifth Avenue for 3 miles before entering Central Park for the final push and that moment that will last forever."
Varrazano-Narrows (Staten Island-Brooklyn)
Pulalski Bridge (Brooklyn-Queens)
Queensboro Bridge (Queens-Manhattan)
Willis Avenue Bridge (Manhattan-Bronx)
Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-Manhattan)
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