Today, my sister and I went for a gentle jog down to Battersea to see the whale that has become stranded in the Thames. It is a juvenile Northern bottle-nosed whale, about 18ft long and 7 tonnes. The poor whale had become confused and exhausted and there is now a rescue operation underway to get it back to the open ocean. We watched the rescuers working for a while before jogging back home via Battersea Park.
Yesterday I squeezed a run into my lunch break. I did a set of 6 x 800m with a 1 minute break in-between. I found that around the round pond in Kensington Gardens was the perfect distance so I ran around that 7 times… dodging the swans, geese, pigeons and people feeding the swans, geese and pigeons made it an especially challenging run.
Good luck with the marathon. Discipline like that is unheard of much anymore. The US News stations ran a human interest piece on that whale on last night’s news. Although I guess you should call it a mammalian interest story or just fishy.