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SUTTON
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RICHMOND
TWICKENHAM
WEMBLEY
HARROW
WATFORD
EDGWARE
BARNET
BRENT PARK
HOUNSLOW
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Leg 4: Kingston to Merton
(9.8 miles) 03:00
Runners: Susie Chan and
Cat Simpson ‘The lowlight
was having to get up at
1:30am’ says Susie ‘but I
got over that pretty quickly.
There is something serene
about running at night
through empty streets. I
enjoyed ticking of the miles
and putting the world to
rights with my friend Cat.’
Leg 13: Barnet to Enfield
(4 miles) 09:40
Runners: Georgina Pearson
and Tariq Knight ‘We
discovered a side of London
previously unknown to us’
says Georgina. ‘We weren’t
particularly fast but we
felt like heroes reaching
our destination.’
Leg 11 Hillingdon
to Harrow (4.1
miles) 08:10
Runners: Anna
McNuf and
Jonty McNuf
‘The London
Peaks Relay had
everything a
great adventure
should have:
uncharted
territory
snack stops a
willingness to
embrace the
unknown and
above all a irm
commitment not
to take things too
seriously’ says
Anna. ‘I loved
the chance to
scamper through
London streets
and past green
ields in suburbia
that I’d never
seen before (and
perhaps won’t
ever see again).’
● Leg 9 Ealing to
Brent (1.7 miles)
7:00am
Runners: John
Carroll and
Alison Hamlett
‘Our irst leg
began at around
7am on top of
Horsenden Hill
west London’
says John. ‘This
meant getting
up at 5am but
given that other
runners were
only going to
bed at that time
I’m reluctant to
complain. Which
is a shame.
Much later on
our second leg
in southeast
London included
some thrilling
descents but we
always knew a
long exhausting
climb would
follow. High
points: the whole
day and telling
a man that his
house was the
highest point
in Bexley. Low
point: being
asked by the
photographer
if we’d take a
detour at the end
our long second
leg and run up a
series of steps in
Crystal Palace.
Then another.’
Leg 7: Richmond
to Hounslow
(6.2 miles) 05:10
Runners: Tobias Mews
and Vassos Alexander
‘Most people will have
reasons why you shouldn’t
get up at 4:30am’ says
Tobias ‘especially while
it’s still drizzling and dark
to meet two other runners
at the highest point in
Richmond before darting of in the opposite direction
towards a random street a little south of Heathrow some
10km away. But it’s enormous fun; it’s diferent from
anything we’d done before; it felt like a team efort; and
most of all it makes me want to do it all over again.’
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