If Bach 🎵 and Hiroshige 🌊 had composed a marathon workout, I imagine it’d be this: Canova alternations

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Edit: confirmed now at 
All the 26 (pedestrian) Thames bridges in Greater London from Hampton Court Bridge to Tower Bridge - I decided at short notice to give this a go (I do enjoy a bit of bridges slalom and this is the ultimate version of it). Had slightly easier conditions than Julien Cazorla a few months ago: no rowing regatta today - but on the other hand, crowds of people heading (verrrrrrry slowly) to the Chelsea Flower Show, and warmer weather (but that is probably just my problem - I still don’t deal well with ☀️). Question to all you FKT experts out there - given this is an ‘open course’ with objective to cross all the bridges, what is the correct time to submit: this reading from Coros (3:50:20 which I stopped at City Hall after crossing Tower Bridge), or a full 50K (I jogged another couple of loops around City Hall to make it 50km on Garmin, which would bring it to 3:54:40)? I’m not surprised that Garmin/Stryd shortchanged me by about 1km (I need to calibrate my Stryd, it regularly comes up 2% short in races), but Coros gps was very similar at 49.3km to City Hall - and I think I ran the same route as you, Julien (minus a minimally straighter route between Southwark and London Bridge)?
If I could have started earlier, I would have - but no earlier train to Hampton Court. I was aiming for something close to a 4:30 pace overall, but deliberately started faster, knowing that I would fade once the sun came up higher, but also bearing in mind that there are more bridges, stairs and pedestrian traffic in the second half. Having said that, I bonked pretty hard in the heat after 35km - I fed well enough for the first couple of hours, but ultimately was dehydrated and a bit underfuelled (stomach said no after ~2h). This time can still be easily improved on by a faster/fitter marathoner (who has the patience for the stairs and the slalom around pedestrians), and I suspect the route will eventually become a bit shorter (particularly once construction at Chelsea Creek is complete, and maybe going straight along the river just before Tower Bridge). 
Not gonna lie, this was harder in the end than I would have liked - the big drop in the final few splits was in part crowded paths & frequent stairs, but legs were pretty dead too - the walk back across Tower Bridge to the DLR took quite a while ☠️  However, still happy with that as a benchmark run before summer marathon training 😊 But next time I run a (more chilled) bridges slalom in central London, I’ll stick to the step-free routes again 😆

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If Bach 🎵 and Hiroshige 🌊 had composed a marathon workout, I imagine it’d be this: Canova alternations

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Mile End parkrun: P5th despite only 19:05 OT

WU to parkrun

Magic Fridays with Fabrice are back ✨ (2/2)

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