Westminster, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

Saturday night saw us embark on the first London Run for a number of years. The basic premise behind a London run is to navigate around London’s various sights throughout the night, thus avoiding the crowds and using as much petrol as possible, then saving petrol on the return journey by cruising round the M25 at 56mph. The car journey usually passes through Heathrow, all the key sights in central London and finishing at a round about North of the Thames in view of the Millennium Dome.

Anthony’s Pensive Excitement, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

Clearly on Bikes this kind of journey would be ridiculous since it is more or less a 100 mile round trip and bikes/motorways are kind of out of bounds. So instead we decided to cut out Heathrow and the M25 and concentrate on landmarks.

Hyde Park Corner, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

The journey started at Hyde Park where we flooded with various liquids and wheelied about as the sun went down. Next up we went to Buckingham Palace and got this slightly wonky photo lined up in front of the gates…

Buckingham Palace, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

Then came Westminster, Trafalgar Square, London Eye and a cycle along the South Bank and back up over Tower Bridge.

St Pauls, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

I even managed to get a puncture from some errant thorn as I rumbled over the cobbles on the South Bank. Although I feared the run was over for me, unbelievably the team managed to fix the puncture with one of those clever repair pack things. The key success factor was almost certainly marking the hole with chalk before sealing it up.

Given how late it got, we never quite made it as far as the Millennium Dome, so that will be a task for another day.

Success, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.