literally another aussie in london

jogging in london

That is what I have started doing.

Now my knee seems to be all in one piece, and the cricket season is nearly upon me, I have started to get fit.

Not much.

Just a little.

But I haven’t done any fitness work for 9 months because of my knee, so I am literally jogging in baby steps. If that is possible.

London is not an easy place to jog in.

Their aren’t many parks, and the ones they have are taken up with dogshit from all the people who own dogs in flats.

If you want to run on grass it is even harder.

I can either run at the local cricket or football ovals, in either case I have to run past the drug dealers who rarely smile.

Even if I choose to run in the local park, which isn’t completely grassed, it is usually wet from the rain. The weird thing about London rain is I hardly ever see it, but when I am out everything is always wet. It’s like it only rains when you aren’t looking.

Now perhaps if I had some sort of shoe that had any kind of friction to it or was waterproof, I could take on the mud paths, but I have neither.

To me, London is not a jog friendly city.

I could be wrong, or just looking at excuses to stop.

Soon I need to find a new fitness regime to immerse myself in.

Pilates and Capoeira are possibilities.

Or I could just chase squirrels.

January 29, 2010 - Posted by Jrod | living in london | fitness