Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2014
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The hills, the killer hills. I'm going to try and do a test run mid week, either Wednesday or Thursday. I should have my lycra shorts by then.
Just looking at those results mean i will easily be last, they will have finished their post race coffee before i cross the finishing line. But it's the taking part that counts.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Is it raising money for charity?
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Nope. It's a weekly get together.
han
love is the answer
Do you run regularly?
I used to do a lot of regular running until I was about 25, then got more into cycling.... (and drinking) - erk.
My right old-lady knee is making a grindy noise when I go up and down the stairs. So maybe starting running again is a bad idea...
Rushy
basically a scrotum
That doesn't sound too healthy! Although is biking good for a crunky knee? You're not a fixed or single gear rider are you? I heard that those are becoming responsible for quite a few knew related visits to physios of late.Do you run regularly?
I used to do a lot of regular running until I was about 25, then got more into cycling.... (and drinking) - erk.
My right old-lady knee is making a grindy noise when I go up and down the stairs. So maybe starting running again is a bad idea...
I've always run in fits and starts. I'm far to disorganised to have ever kept to a training schedule. I much prefer trail running to road though.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
I've never understood the point of fixies, single speed yes (although not for me) but fixies no
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
You can ride just on one foot and go up and down like a piston!
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
You can ride just on one foot and go up and down like a piston!
Ah, now that I can understand
The back hill at the second attempt is a killer. But run the whole way up and you feel like a champion, regardless of your final time.
When I first started, I'd do a brisk walk up the back hill the second time and do a better time than when I had run the whole way.
There is a guy working for Lambeth called Ivor Northey trying to get some funds together to launch the junior parkrun.
I told him that many peoples' employers will match money raised for charity and we should try to raise it, about £2k, from the regular parkrun.
We went to Claire, the race director, and she said we will never be allowed to make an announcement or send an email because the whole ethos is that nobody is asked for money ever.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Stealth charity
Emmanusquelle
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Isn't there a junior park run type thing on Sunday mornings in Brockwell Park? I have just taken up running (well, that's a very big word for what it is at the moment...) and on Sunday mornings I have seen some kind of kids' race - I think it starts at 9am by the lido.
I am aiming to do my first parkrun probably in August. At the moment can't make it round the whole park (2.8k?) without stopping. A lot.
I have the course map but do they run clockwise or anti clockwise. The back hill is the Tulse Hill end?
I've had enough of the gentrification runners, I'm putting these down
http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/07/anti-homeless-spikes-outside-london-flats-spark-outrage-4753547/
http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/07/anti-homeless-spikes-outside-london-flats-spark-outrage-4753547/
Yeah, it leads from the duck pond to Cressingham Gardens. We start at the Lido and head off toward Water Lane. Do a full circuit, take a left after the Lido, past the BMX track and rejoin the perimeter at the gate opposite Jubilee Primary School / TH Estate.
CH1
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I was wondering if Barratts would put something like that outside Brixton Square now people sit on their raised flower beds smoking and drinking. But then again maybe the residents above benefit from the "fragrances" wafting towards their windows - and of course the extra vibrancy and edginess.
SpamMisery
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It's private property right?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
What is - the doorways of luxury flats in Southwark Bridge Road or the flower beds outside Brixton Square (or both)?
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
The doorway of the flats
Nice party going on out the front of the Canterbury Arms, good luck to them.
I like the fact that this Parkrun is not linked to a business charity. I don't want the hassle or the guilt trip about raising money for a charity that is almost certainly poncing off the unemployed via the Workfare scheme. I just want to turn up, run, have fun and get fit. These charity business can look after themselves.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Yes. Sunday mornings. Whipped my three daughters around this morning.
Yep, turn up, run, and volunteer three times a year.
The volunteers get a great round of applause each week.
So it's anti clockwise, i prefer that. I can't run 1km without stopping, i can't run half that without stopping. Will jog and walk. I will do it.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
It's basically two full hills and one semi hill.
Which is easier than going up the Dulwich wood path from Sydenham station to the Dulwich wood pub - as I foolishly did this morning.
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Presumably it is private. There was an interesting pictorial comment under the newspaper article:
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