I’ve been a bit quiet on my running blog of late (in fact, my training has hardly been pushing any boundaries either), so thought I’d post a quick entry about my new fave place to run: Hampstead Heath.

I think it just about qualifies as a running commute. Basically I get the Tube to either Highgate or Kentish Town and take a meandering run towards and through Hampstead Heath and then drop down into West Hampstead.

Tuesday night was perfect, starting off at Highgate and running (getting a bit lost) around Queen’s Wood. Hampstead Heath was populated with loads of other runners, as well as cyclists, dog walkers and picnickers (probably the most sensible of the lot, given the warm evening).

The only pain is that work demands, and meeting up with an old mate for a curry yesterday, meant that my only other window for exercise this week was tonight. Predictably a late job stopped me from going. Pants. I hope the warm weather continues, so I can get a few more runs in before my next Septathlon Challenge: the British 10k.