The Official Start of Spring, to my Mind, Except in One Corner of Victoria Park

Delightful spring morning as I ran back the 8ish miles yesterday from Maitripushpa’s along the canal, past London Zoo, through Camden, Islington and Hackney and through Victoria Park in Bethnal Green. It was the first time during my marathon training that I’ve been able to run without an extra layer over my T shirt, which is a real turning poing as far as I’m concerned. I hope that the day of the Marathon in two and a half weeks’ time will bring something similar.

I went out in very different conditions for a 20 mile run on Sunday, starting out when it was still snowing. I subsequently got a cold and couldn’t run on Monday and Tuesday. Certainly there was no snow left on the ground this morning except in one corner of Victoria Park where they were doing some filming and had created a convincing wintry scene with fake snow, as shown below. My friend Jnanavaca suggested afterwards that I should have run straight through it - I wish I’d thought of that at the time.