Lap of Honour

I get up this morning and think where shall I go today? and I think I could go to Finsbury Park and I look at the comments left on yesterday’s post and Monica says that she used to run in Finsbury Park and Clissold Park and that’s why she loves my blog and she also casts aspersions on the state of my mental health but I’m going to overlook that just this once and I think I will go and run round Finsbury Park in her honour and I’m thinking that to run there might be a bit far and maybe I’ll get the tube and then I consult www.walkit.com and it says it’s only 3.1 miles and I think hurrah, I can run there and it looks a pretty straightforward route too and I’m thinking how since I’ve been running London has shrunk and all the places I go to overground when before I only travelled underground and now I rarely get the tube and I decide to run up the steep hill and I think if I run up the steep hill that will be my I-missed-three-Juneathons redemption but then I’m walking up the hill looking at the steps leading up to the houses and I wonder why they’ve got so many steps and then I’m thinking I’m supposed to be running up the hill like Kate Bush not wondering why there’s so many steps leading up to the houses and then I’m in Stamford Hill and there’s a shop called Pound Plus Big Discount Shop and I’m wondering if the things in the shop cost over a pound or do the things in the shop cost Β£1 then discounted further? and then just before I get to Finsbury Park I cross the road and a man nods and smiles at me and I’m thinking that’s odd, why is that man smiling and nodding at me and I wonder if I have slept with him know him and then I’m at Finsbury Park and www.walkit.com didn’t lie as my Garmin tells me I’ve travelled 3.1 miles.

And I go to do a lap of the park and there’s some American Footballers or should that be people playing American Football as I don’t know if they’re American or not.

And I’m getting thirsty and I’m wondering if it’s because I’ve gone north and the high altitude is making me thirsty and I decide that it’s more likely I’m dehydrated after last night’s wine, beer and cocktails.

But I am high up and I’m thinking there must be a steep hill somewhere as over in the distance I can see houses high up in the sky.

And I go past a sign

and it says Highgate Wood is three miles away and I think ooh, somewhere else for me to investigate and then I’ve done a lap of the park and I head off back home after taking a picture of a flower.

And as I’m on the mile long boring stretch out of the marshes, a couple stop me and the girl says where’s the entrance? and I say the entrance to what? and she says to the lakes and stuff, is it all like this? and I say ah, it’s just another half a mile, keep going and you’ll come to fields and the river and boats and stuff and she looks happy and says thank you have a nice day and I say thanks, you too and I hope she’s not going to be disappointed with the marshes.

Today’s route

Splits

Stats
Distance: 8.35 miles
Time: 1:45:38
Pace: 12:39 m/m
Calories: 760
Finsbury Parks: 1
American Footballers: lots
Cocktails: 2
Music
Black Kids
PJ Harvey
Blur
The Mission
Sisters of Mercy
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Beatles
THE 100 MILE CHALLENGE
Miles completed so far
64.42 out of 100 / 9 days left

4 comments

  • “I’m wondering if it’s because I’ve gone north and the high altitude is making me thirsty”

    Now that’s funny πŸ™‚

  • there are 2 horrible hills in that park. before deciding to embrace my insanity and train 4 marathons I used to go to that park with my flatmate and we called the hills, “the hills of death” and after 2 laps I WAS dead. he was always trying to convince me to do a third lap but that meant running longer than 30 minutes and i REFUSED to do it…. LOL πŸ™‚

    i said you are mad…in a nice way though!

    i am moved by the dedication πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ and by the pics…THANKS!

  • Yeah, there’s a race there every year and it’s three laps, I haven’t managed to not walk up the hill yet.

  • Ooh, that’s impressive and looks so lovely too. We got to Finsbury Park but mainly to enjoy the ducks and the sand πŸ™‚

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