How was your weekend running?

Digging out the base layers and gloves and attempting to ‘warm up’ in sleet this weekend? As always, I want to hear your stories, so please share below the line, whether it was a triumphant PB or a slowly defrosting plod

Well, that was cold. Having had an absurdly mild November so far, the sudden drop in temperature on Friday night came as a bit of a shock to the running system. In fact, thinking about last winter, there were very few days cold enough to even require gloves, so it’s been a long time since I had to fish out base layers and buffs and the like. Saturday morning was a particular eye opener - or rather, eye-closer, since when the temperature drops my eyes start streaming and I can’t see a thing. When I used to cycle regularly to work this meant that, during winter, many a concerned passer-by or fellow cyclist used to ask if I was ok. Clearly they thought I’d just had terrible news, rather than leaky tear ducts ...

Anyway at around 8am on Saturday quite a few hardy souls were, like me, ‘warming’ up for the Battersea 10k in sleet. I started the race unable to feel my own toes so was fairly happy to finish in a solid-if-nowhere-near-PB 40m 39sec, especially as I somehow - despite not looking at my watch once (or perhaps because?) ran the most even splits I’ve ever run in my life. The Battersea 10k series attracts a pretty speedy bunch of club runners and as the last one of the season, this week’s was particularly good - just looking at the women, of 75 racing, eight went under 40 minutes which is, I imagine, a pretty impressive proportion compared to most races of that size.

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