A freezing weekend in London for the first Cancer Research Winter Run - complete with warming hugs from polar bears. How was your weekend running, and did it involve bears, PBs or just your usual training?
It’s been a while since I had a race. The last one was a 10km fairly soon after the New York marathon, and my legs were either still very much recovering, or had just decided to go AWOL that day. That was a few months ago, and I’d forgotten the pre-race nerves. Half “oh god this is going to hurt” and half “why am I nervous? No on cares except me!”
So I felt a bit jittery lining up for the first Winter Run 10km in Central London yesterday. When they set the race date as February 1st it was clearly odds-on that the weather would cooperate, and yesterday’s temperatures were doing their best to help with the atmosphere. Polar bears offering warming bear bugs before and after the race had their work cut out. The fake snow showers had to battle against an icy wind blasting the snow away - a particularly weird wind tunnel effect in the loop of the course around St Paul’s had me almost at a standstill, if momentarily.
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