How was your weekend running?

Running, jumping, throwing or scoffing - how was your weekend running? As always come and share your triumphs and woes below the line. Just mind out for the hammer throwers, those things are lethal

This weekend I learned an important lesson: running a 10k race half an hour after eating pancakes is not a pleasant experience. There, that’s the kind of pearl of wisdom you all come here for, right? Where would you all be without that kind of expert, insider knowledge?

So, an explanation .. It was my club open 10km race yesterday and I was supposed to be doing it as part of a long run. 9 mile ‘warm up’ then race, then home - at which point pancakes would have been entirely justified. Instead, my childcare plans fell through, I thought I wasn’t going to be able to run at all, so I ate pancakes with the small fry by way of consolation. Then discovered, thanks to a lovely friend, that I could go after all. Cue mad dash into running kit and out of the door.

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