London calling! - destinations

 

Are you ready to discover the city with its runner community? The meeting is at 152 Brick Lane (m.adidas.co.uk/studioLDN_152BrickLane), a beautiful space derived from a famed street of East End of London, full of creative energy. From here start some of Adidas' community workouts around the neighborhood, but here there are also workshops, yoga lessons, sport and nutrition seminars. There's an internal cafe, the Bel Air, which offers snacks and one of the best cocoa and peanut butter smoothie. Do you want to chat and meet a new guy? No way.. here can only enter females and the training's inscriptions is available only in the Facebook Messenger chatbot. For both females and males and group workouts look on the site (adidas.co.uk/adidasrunners/events/london/) and the community's facebook page. Usually, workouts are outdoor on friday morning at the Workshop Coffee White Collar Factory (Old Street) for a welcome coffee. Mark this area: alternative spaces and groovy club are several. 

Another meeting point is on monday at the Hyde Park station to run in one of the most beautiful parks of the world. If you want, you can go till Abbey Road and go through (running) the most famous crosswalk (yes, the Beatles ones!). 

You can also take a little break to see monuments. You can book a City Jogging Tour (cityjoggingtours.co.uk), this way you will run with a local runner: he will came to your hotel and he will take you in the most famous places, from Tamigi to Royal Parks. In these six pathways some breaks are planned to do yoga, pilates and fitness. 

Do you want to go out from sightseeing tours? Secret London Runs (secretlondonruns.com) proposes a path to the discover of the gin's hisotry. You start from The Punch Tavern, in Fleet Street, and you run 10 km between streets and places which have signed liquor's history. 10 little breaks are planned. But don't deceive yourself, gin tonic will be offered to you only at the end...!

JAMES POOLE, London adidas runners captain  (instagram @jamesdpoole) said: 

"I have two favorite places to run here. One is the London Borough of Hackney. It seems a suburban neighborhood, but it's rich of coffee, shops and trendy bar. Starting from Old Street, planty of new start-up, I go towards Shoreditch, planty of street art signed by Ben Eine, Roa, Sweet Toof and Banksy. What's another area that I love the most? Hampstead Heat: where the adidas community usually meets. You can find it only a few stops form the center: it is planty of green, ponds and kilometers of streets for runners. After workouts, I like going to Bababoom (bababoom.london), which offers a very good middle eastern cuisine and it's handled by runners! And on monday there's the Medal Monday: the kebab will be free if you take with you a medal you won in a competition. In center, instead, there's the Mile 27 Clubhouse, a Running Hub Café which receives a runners community who wants to chat, leave the bag in the near Regents Park or drink a beer!"