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  • JamberJamber
    edited 12:06AM
    Oh Glad you enjoyed it! re canal - normally just past it - have you ventured down - i keep meaning to see if there are variations but never have the time to get lost!
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  • JamesJames
    edited 12:06AM
    I haven't ventured down either. However there's a map at the entrace off Duncan Terrace which seems to imply you could use it to come out somewhere near city road. Will give it a go and report back... although possibly not today given how cold it is!
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  • graemegraeme
    edited 12:06AM
    Thanks to Nick_M for mapping out the route to Ally Pally. Did it on Saturday morning, and indeed enjoyed the Rocky moment. Coming back downhill played havoc on my knees though. Hoping the YMCA 10k isn't as hilly as that, and I should be ok.
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  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    edited 12:06AM
    @optimo: be afraid, be very afraid. The slope up from the Chocolate Factory is a bit wearing and the little hill over the railway after AP station is a right bugger - but short. And you have to do it twice.
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  • AliAli
    edited 12:06AM
    I recently came across this web site.
    http://www.heritagepaths.co.uk/
    Pity something like this doesn’t exist for London and surrounds.
    I especially like the old Coffin Road
    http://www.heritagepaths.co.uk/pathdetails.php?path=50
    Could be the basis of a really nice walking holiday !
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  • graemegraeme
    edited 12:06AM
    [Reviving this thread...]

    Does anyone have a route for a half-marathon, around the Stroud Green area? Something like Nick_M's route to Ally Pally, but going further obv. (Looking for 13.1 mile circuit, not going round a 6.5m circuit twice if possible - I get bored easily).

    Ta.
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  • nick_mnick_m
    edited 12:06AM
    [this one](http://www.walkjogrun.net/routes/current_route.cfm?rid=3E34EADF-A8B3-7FEE-2DEBE62B9AD66455) is 11 miles. You can extend it by doing a lap around finno (and you could go further by doing a lap around clissold park). 11 miles should see you through for a half-marathon, especially as running in our neck of the woods (literally) involves a lot of hills! Which race are you doing?
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  • nick_mnick_m
    edited 12:06AM
    [here is](http://www.walkjogrun.net/routes/current_route.cfm?rid=AA9CA3AF-B963-B384-36F06A11CBDA37CA) an alternative. Less hilly and is still over 10.5 miles.
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  • graemegraeme
    edited July 2009
    Amazing service Nick, thanks very much indeed!

    Glasgow Half-Marathon in September. Haven't done it before but the route looks reasonably flat, and stops off at a couple of chip shops on the way. Nice!
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  • AliAli
    edited 12:06AM
    If your walking try this site http://www.walkit.com/cities/?welcome Great for routes etc
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  • nick_mnick_m
    edited 12:06AM
    @optimo75: Good luck. A mate of mine ran the Paris marathon a while back and they had a cheese and wine stall for runners at the 20 mile mark. Not sure how he stomached it, but he got stuck in and duly paid for it a mile later.
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  • graemegraeme
    edited 12:06AM
    Those crazy frogs.

    Yeah, won't be partaking... Did the Roy Roy Challenge last month (55 miles walk/bike), and they had tea and scones at 45 miles!! A few folk boaked up on the final hill climb..
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  • JamesJames
    edited 12:06AM
    @Jamber After a mere 6 months I did try walking down the canal. I went in the Duncan Terrace entrance but after about 50 metres you have to come back out onto Vincent Terrace. It was quite nice but probably not worth it. At that point though there is the option of crossing to the other side of the canal and keeping on going but I wussed out.
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  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    edited 12:06AM
    I walked ten miles of the North Downs Way in Surrey yesterday. I was amazed, you can get to the North Downs in around an hour from here for an outlay of not much more than £10. Nobody has any excuse any more not to get off their arse and go for a nice healthy day's walk in that weird muddy green place they call 'the countryside'.
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  • anixanix
    edited November 2009
    This is a great walk: Starts in Ally Pally, Parkland walk, highgate woods & village, Hampstead heath & village.
    You can easily expanded by walking down to Chalk Farm and ending at Pimrose Hill.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article585359.ece.
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  • anixanix
    edited 12:06AM
    sorry, some missing on the link
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article585359.ece
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