127, 126, 125 ; The Regent's Park Training Ground

I am most fortunate to live equidistant between the two big green spaces of central Lunnon. Both HP and RP are often bursting with people indulging in all kind of meaningful, but ultimately meaningless exercise.  From dawn till dusk there are cyclists and pavement pounders obssesively kow-towing to their Stravas' statistical demands.  Hyde Park is welcoming and open armed while The Regent's Park, originally hunting ground known as Marylebone Park, for most part hides behind hedges. The latter is famous for the Zoo, where, in this kind of weather, the famous Brahs Monkeys can be seen swinging from tree to tree. RP does have at least one secret - it possesses the only road in London where one can ride infinitely and indefinitely without having to stop for pedestrian or car. The Inner Ring Road, 1km  long, has no beginning or end or lights and so is perfect for training though it is a bit dull going round and round. Going round and round on the IRR is not, however as dull - or precarious - as the even duller circuits of the 5.5km Outer Ring Road.Once you have got over the Outer Road's few sights: the Mosque, the Armed guard outside the US Ambassador's crib, the running track and the neighbouring seasonal trapeze, and the Zoo, the endless hedges get very boring. The ORR does attract many road cyclists and if one is lucky one can be swept to one side and into the gutter by a passing peloton.

Easter, despite being the coldest ever known since the earth was formed one week 6500 years ago, has been OK for cycling. I 'enjoyed' climbing Swains Lane ( London's steepest hillock) twice. I have the 1005th fastest recorded time - just in front of a fun cyclist dressed as a pumpkin and cycling a big yellow, inflatable bike. 

M&S Spring Collection

66 miles on the bike
5 miles running.