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#TodaysWalk

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Mike B :rainbow_flag:

Ambling along for 14.6km/9.1mi for today's walk in 20C/67F temps. 9'29" per km and lightly moderate 106 BPM (71%). I think I'm running a caloric deficit, and my body is saying: "There is this much energy available, and this is the max exercise that can be sustained until home." Eat more, exercise less. Sheesh.
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Mike B :rainbow_flag:

And there you have it. 23C/74F for today's 14.6km/9.1mi walk. A pretty brisk (compared to yesterday) 9'05" per km and a heart rate that was 15 less than yesterday at a moderately light 104 BPM (69%).
I'm thinking one should not count on an iWatch for accurate physiological information.
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Mike B :rainbow_flag:

Really wasn't feeling it for today's 14.8km/9.2mi walk even though it was a clement 12C/54F degrees. I dawdled along at 9'04" per km and managed to get the old heart going a lightly moderate 106 BPM (71%).
Turned out okay once I convinced myself to get started. Walking is good.
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wibble

#TodaysWalk was up to St Margaret Pattens in the City, by way of Burgess Park and Peckham's peculiar bollards.

Earlier in the week, I went to Sydenham Hill Wood to look for the elusive Monkey Puzzle but, having found it, failed to announce to an eager world that I'd done anything of the sort.

I can only apologise for that, and hope that this will make amends.

A view across the lake at Burgess Park, showing a lot of water with nothing much in it, though the pale and distant form of an apparently headless swan floats somewhere in the distance, if it isn't dust on the lens. The lake is bordered with trees, fluffily green now that spring has sprung. Also fluffy is a flotilla of clouds, streaked with fading lines that point, I imagine, either in the direction of London's various airports or towards the secret bunkers where chemtrail scientists brew their potions, according to taste or medication.
The junction of Fenwick and East Dulwich Roads, where the widened footway has been decorated with a cluster of rust-coloured bollards peculiar to that posh part of Peckham that has taken to calling itself Bellenden, to the great amusement of many. The bollards are of roughly conventional size, but take various forms. Two are shaped like geometric hourglasses, one like an upended turd, another a triplet of vertically-stacked balls and a fifth, perhaps not unfortunately, consists of a bulbous head emerging turgidly from a stout shaft. They are bollards, so count for something, but it's hard not to wonder what they were imagining or, more charitably, whether they did eventually get help.
Sydenham Hill Wood, as viewed from the Footbridge, is mostly made of trees. There is a little sign on the footbridge itself that explains this fact, and also contains a reproduction of a painting by Pissarro, allegedly made from the bridge itself.
An indifferent picture of a bell bollard sited at the end of a narrow road. The narrowness isn't clear from the picture, though is hinted at by the condition of the bollard, which has the facing edge ground almost flat, and the absence of a kerbstone that was once underneath it. The real point of interest, however, is the name of the road, proudly displayed on a sign behind. For, if that is to be believed, this is Stanton Road, in the London Borough of Lewisham. A road that, spookily, you won't find on any map.
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Mike B :rainbow_flag:

A little cooler today at 15C/59F for a 14.4km/8.9mi walk. I lingered at 9'14" per km and a moderately light 100 BPM (66%). Sheesh, I know people who have a resting heart rate of 100 BPM.
Last day for the Brooks Ghost shoes. Nice cushioning, light-weight, but the fit was horrible. Back to the Hoka Bondis.
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Mike B :rainbow_flag:

Rain was forecast for the last half of today's walk, so I cut it short at 12.7km/7.8mi. A really slow10'10" per km and a why bother calling it exercise 95 BPM (63%). It was a warm 22C/72F.
It did rain for 3 km, but then quit so the last km or so was accompanied by petrichor, which was pleasant.
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wibble

As it's Good Friday, #TodaysWalk was cancelled and I have spent the day in timeworn fashion, morosely considering my buns and mulling the mysteries of other people's sins.

Earlier in the week, however, I wandered over to Brixton to check preparations for the Easter Egg Hunt, a tradition in which children perform futile fingertip searches of parks and gardens in the slender hope of nugatory, evanescent rewards, and thus prepare themselves for the World of Work.

Amidst cherry trees garlanded with damp blossom, in a flattish corner of the green lawns of Southwyck House, two egg-shaped objects have been carefully placed. Each is around eight feet in length, from end to end - or sideways, as sideways is how they are - but are partly concealed by the trunks of the trees, depending on the angle of the viewer. One of them is shiny, and apparently of steel, while the other is more modestly rust-coloured and, if not iron, at least ironic. In the background looms the brutalist bulk of Southwyck House, known as the Barrier Block, its red bricks and beige concrete detailing harmonizing beautifully with the unnatural wonders laid out before it.
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