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Running in the park at Night
When I run in the evenings I most run around the perimeter of the park on the roads. However I have seen people running in the park in the dark as well as people playing tennis? Does anyone do this? How safe is it?
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Otherwise there's not been anything major reported in the news in 2020 to my knowledge.
It's probably common sense to not go there at night, but that being said I have done so myself a few times as a short cut and had no issues.
I thought Haringey Council was going to install more lighting and some CCTV?
I had three guys try to stop me by the bridge as I was exiting once, I could see what was about to happen so was really not about to stop, I also had the engine to get a move on but it did strike me that had that been on the way in to the park i would have had a long way to leg it.
I also told a couple in Oxford Road not to go in via the bridge but they didn't listen.
Unfortunately I think it's a numbers game if you run regularly, add in some multipliers like the fact that I am probably not the easiest target and also do not strap a £500 phone to my arm then maybe my odds are favourable.
Equally if there are 30 people in the park in winter and 200 people in summer when are the odds of getting mugged worse?
As for the Parkland Walk after dark, that’s probably an even more attractive proposition, with many places to suddenly appear from at close quarters, and then to disappear just as quickly. In fact, for many years (going back to when it was just a disused railway) it’s been an escape route for muggers operating on the streets near the bridges over Tollington Park, Stapleton Hall Road, Mount Pleasant Villas, and the passage from Florence Road.
Still, each to his/her own level of risk with which he/she feels comfortable.
@HolbornFox, apart from the crappy service we get from Veolia in Haringey (I don’t know who Islington use), what have you got against bin men?
On a lighter running note - down stroud green road and towards clissold park isn't that far, you can then run loops of clissold in the streetlights and head back uphill to stroud green. Quite a nice route.
My old man wasn't a Dustman @Scruffy but I've got nothing against them, in fact now we have left the EU can they finally start throwing your rubbish down the street again if you don't give them a tip at Christmas?
Do the first short loop of Ally Pally and run all the way back down, through the park and onto New River Path.
Then down through the reservoirs to Clissold Park.
Loop Clissold Park and come back up the beginning of Parkland Walk.
There's facilities all along and optional loops in Highgate Woods.
The run is probably about 13 or 14 miles if you do it without looping through the parks, I wanted to do 20 miles when I was doing it (marathon training) so looped every park.
It's fantastic as it's bloody hard going at first but you get great views as well as a good recovery period back down the hills and the second half is flat(ish), you also don't have to carry water.
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