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I'd rather be on a turbo/rollers than Regents Park. I have used it quite a lot over the years, especially a concentrated burst after Eastway closed, but I've given up because:
there are a lot of suicide squirrels, and I almost came down in a group stack thanks to quite a large one.
there's a tendency to go through the lights after the mosque, because it seems to be the done thing in group/fast training. But there's a little gate/path-road that cuts into the park there, and whilst doing ~30mph, I almost got taken out by a vehicle darting out of there... and it was a police car, and I only got away due to traffic being on my side.
cars don't give you much room heading up the East side, and I nearly got hit by someone overtaking me when I had to swerve to avoid another car that came flying out of the road that cuts across the Boardwalk.
the road surface is shit in places.
I hit a dog that ran out into the road just after London Zoo, and the owner felt I was in the wrong, rather than him and his leash-based laissez-faire attitude.
and many more...