Today did not go according to plan. This was the usual Saturday morning run with the Frontrunners around Hyde Park. I came out of Paddington tube station and walked around the corner towards the hospital to be greeted by a phalanx of photographers and journalists who were waiting outside the hospital. I asked a policeman what was going on and he said "the princess' baby". As I hadn't heard any news that day I had no idea that the royal baby was about to be born inside the hospital. We joked later that the cameras had turned out for our training session!
The reason the session did not go according to plan was because I got lost. Yes I have run around Hyde Park LOTS of times before and in theory I do know where all the paths go (roughly). However today I thought I'd change it up a little bit by running in the opposite direction in the loop around the Serpentine. Instead I found myself right back at the beginning much too early and with no idea of which path I should take in order to make my way back, so I carried on and ended up losing the path and getting very lost. I did find my way back to the start later on in the end but I had to cut across the park to do so, through some (very nice) parts that I had never run through before. Consequently I don't know how far I ran this time, only that it took me over an hour to do so. I need to invest in a watch that measures distance as well as time!
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