Running commute #3
As my running commute #2 and a half needed rounding up, I jumped on the tube tonight and went to the train station to get the train half way home and to run the rest of the way. I was wondering how I was going to drag myself off the train when I was half way home then realised that I didn’t need to get my train but could get any train that goes to Hackney Downs so I looked at the departure board and a few trains were going there and so I chose one that was leaving in six minutes and was stopping first at Hackney Downs but when I got to the platform it didn’t say Hackney Downs, so I got on the train and asked a woman does this train stop at Hackney Downs and she said yes, I’m pretty sure it does and so I stayed on the train thinking I hope this train does stop at Hackney Downs, I don’t want to end up in Cheshunt, I don’t even know where Cheshunt is, then over the speaker the man said that this train is calling at Hackney Downs and so off the train went and a few minutes later I’m standing outside the station wishing my Garmin would hurry up and get a signal as I’d rather be a moving target than a sitting duck and then I’m off to do my half a running commute and I get to the road that I remember being really hard to cross so I try to cross a bit earlier and a man tries to run me over because I’m standing where he wants to park, so I go back down the road and cross at the zebra crossing and then there’s another road to cross and the cars are coming from all directions and some are turning where I want to cross but hardly any of them are bothering to indicate first and so after I while I just cross and hope I don’t get run over and then I’m on Murder Mile and remember where my exit is at the roundabout and then I’m feeling pretty knackered and walk over the bridge and a cyclist is coming towards me so I have to stop anyway and then I think why is there a cyclist on the pavement? And then two more cyclists come towards me and I’m thinking EXCUSE ME CYCLISTS, PAVEMENTS ARE FOR PEOPLE and then I realise that half the pavement is a cycle path but it’s the narrowest pavement in the world and there’s not enough room for cyclists and pedestrians and I cross the road hoping there’s no cyclists on that side of the road but I’m going the same way as the traffic now and the cyclists are coming up behind me which is even worse so I have to carry on walking and then the cycle path gets cut off by some roadworks and there’s a cyclist right behind me so I stop to let him go past me and he’s stopped too and we’re both standing there saying no, it’s ok, you go first, no you first, no you can go, and so I end up going otherwise we’re going to be standing there all night being polite and I get to B&Q and I can see all their garden stuff and I’m wishing B&Q was further away so it would be easier to boycott when I want to go shopping in the Summer for plants and flowers and stuff and then I get to the corner and I think I’ve done a lot of walking, maybe I should do some running now and I run until I get to Somerfield and buy some cat food and there’s a man in there throwing a strop but I don’t know why. And I don’t really care.
Today’s route
Stats:
Miles: 2.70
Total time: 34:19
Average pace: 12:42
Total calories: 220
Cyclists on the pavement: millions
Men throwing a strop in Somerfield: 1
Music:
Ween – Strap On That Jammy Pac
Maximo Park – I Want You To Leave
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – The Dancing Girls
The Horrors – Dragger’s Rant
Bobby Conn – Winners
Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Soft Cell – The Art Of Falling Apart
Catatonia – Part Of The Furniture
Levellers – One Way
Courtney Love – But Julian, I’m A Little Bit Older Than You
Mark Ronson – Amy
Well done on the run home – what was the man doing whilst throwing his strop?
Loving the 3d map action.
I don’t know, I had my iPod on, but he was having a major strop and saying something about never shopping there again 🙂
LOL – is Somerfield twinned with B&Q?
I got some verbal today when I was out running from 3 woman sat outside a pub each with prams drinking pints at lunchtime (living the dream) 🙂 Luckly I had my world filter on too.
Just cat food? Or perhaps a celebratory bottle of wine too?
That map is making me feel a bit queasy actually. Do you not feel as if you are about to fall into the computer screen?
Um, I might have got a bottle of wine too 🙂
You should export your Broadmoor forest onto Google Earth, would look cool.
There is a pub on one of the routes where i go and its quite common for people there to shout stuff at me as i plod pass. I have no idea what they say at all sort of sounds like oiyerkhjaskhafs!!!!!!!!!