Oh What A Beautiful Morning...

Okay, so it's catch up time for the blog entries.
Here's the latest 3, so scroll down to "Adelaide", (or just choose it from the post list on the right) and read on up from there. Unfortunately, pictures won't seem to upload from this internet cafe, so they'll be added once I've moved in to Tottenham and have direct internet access...


You're not reading this first are you?? Go on, back the the first two on the right...

Awake at 5.30am, with one unfortunate sod in the 6bed dorm having breathing (and snoring) problems, so after an hour of resisting that ever increasing ‘urge’, I thought I may as well get up and go for a run. Having just spent all those hours travelling and basically having done no physical activity since last Monday, it will have to do in the absence of either bike.

One of the best moves i’ve made in quite a while. A stirling idea (with no apologies to the old cigarette ad from years ago!). Here’s a quick rundown of how it went, so you be the judge;

Warm up was descending the 5 flights of stairs to Piccadilly, then off across Piccadilly Circus and down to what turned out to be Pall Mall. So, turn left and head up to the arch at the start of it. Along the edge of St James Park past the Royal Parade grounds and the British War rooms to come out at Buckingham Palace. With the sun just starting to rise and blue sky poking through from the London Eye and onto the Palace, I headed around the Victoria Monunment and up along the edge of Green Park. Impressive start to this little jog.

About here, during Pink Floyd's Sorrow, the Ipod died leaving me with the just the early Sunday morning sounds of London and these very picturesque parklands. Barely a soul about, only ravens, a few geese, some other birds and of course the squirrels. Anyway, it made up for my frustration at having left the ipod on all night. I wondered about John Kilzer's question If sidewalks talked, what would they say? Imagine!!

Through the arch of something-or-other (the one with the three horses atop it) and into Hyde Park. Using the paths along the edges, I basically did a lap of Hyde Park, passing places like the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace and a few other things that I don’t know the name of. All the while, the sun was gradually rising with a few rays starting to poke through the trees and cross over the landscape. Beautiful!

With almost no one around the whole scene was pretty serene, despite the mounting traffic on the other side of the fences. A fantastic way to start the day. Even the lack of hot water for a shower at the backpackers didn’t diminish the high I was on, nor the grin I carried for nearly all of the hour of which I ran.

And i thought running along the Esplanade at StKilda and Elwood was pretty good in the early morning! Will be back at it tomorrow morning before having to check out of the backpackers and head up to Tottenham...