Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Can you do the Harringay 10 minute mile?

(another new river photo post ... )

Beautiful evening on the Harringay New River path tonight

Walking along I saw something I'd never seen there before - a group of youths sitting on the bank and then one or two of them jumped in for a swim. Beautiful evening for a swim. In not too long there were quite a lot of police. By the time I got to the Hampden Rd end lots of police cars, an ambulance, and some other youths watching from the bridge making funny comments about the police running along the new river path. Apparently police are supposed to be able run a mile in 10 minutes, and they wondered if this lot looked like they could do that. So it got me wondering if I could do a mile in 10 minutes?

Measuring on Google Maps its this simple course - start at that big house on Wightman Rd, down and along the New River path, out and down Hampden Rd to the Harringay Passage, along the passage to Allison Rd, then up Allison Rd and across Wightman and back to the big house.

I just gave it a try, not really a runner so a more of a brisk walk, bit hot by the end - 16 minutes! I'm going to practice, I think I could do it in 10. Might bribe my kids to try too.

Start anywhere on the route, go around till you're back where you started, and you know you've done about exactly one mile. Its a nice short thing so you can try without having to make too much of a major effort but still feel you've done something.