Midnight Runners - Wednesday Run

Who would have ever thought I'd chose to run over skating?!!


I opted today to join the Midnight Runners which have been active since last September in London. Their main midnight event is usually on the last Saturday of the month, but to keep us occupied they also do weekly Wednesday runs at 20:00 and Sunday runs at 12:00. All events are free to join. 

During the run they also incorporate a few core based workout as it compliments your running fitness, I did not realise this so I started to regret the twenty five minute abs session I did prior to this!

They have Ultimate Ears as their sponsors which provide the speakers that one of the guys used to pump music on our run.

It was one of the main organisers' birthday today so it was apparently a much smaller group than usual. Today there was six of us, yet we were still turning heads. Comments included "I want to join that group!" Our run ended up at the bar for the birthday guy. I must say it was a very friendly and open bunch of people.

Summary.
Midnight Runners' Wednesday sessions clashes with my other favourite free event, the London Skate. 

There's definitely positive parallels in mentality with the two groups, 

• the need to be outside, 
  
• to socialise, 
  
• to enjoy a bit of fitness, 
  
• all thrown together with some music.
  

Skating is my first love, but running has it's benefits of being less restrictive of locations with regards to suitable surfaces, more accessible to the masses and it's not weather dependant.

Also next month I shall begin my proper run marathon training so this group will be a good thing to incorporate into the weekly schedule.

Find Midnight Runners events on Facebook for the latest news.

Today's Achievements.

• Clocked up 8km from work to Hyde Park.
  
• Another 3km to Westminster meeting point for Midnight Runners.
  
• 11km to Clerkenwell. 
  

So this is the most running I've ever done in a single day. Feeling good.