How was your weekend running?

Yesterda saw one of my highlights of the racing year - did you race a mile? As always, I want to hear about your triumphs, your training, your injury woes, your questions and all your many miles

The last couple of weeks have seen the start of the main block of marathon training, for Berlin at the end of September. So it was a bit of a switch to go out yesterday and race a mile. The Amba City of London mile, though, has become one of my favourite events of the year. It’s brilliantly organised, a fabulous course on closed roads around St Paul’s Cathedral, you get a medal, water and there’s a goody bag for little racers. You can enter multiple waves. How much, you ask? Oh, it’s free. I don’t know how they do it, but if you were judging races on value for money, I think we have an annual winner ...

I ran in the women’s wave and the family wave. I was pleasantly surprised - once my lungs stopped screaming at me - with my time, 5min 44sec, which is quicker than last year despite coming at the end of a very high mileage week (for me). But more importantly, my two little mini-racers both scored PBs. This is undoubtedly one of the best things about this race - inspiring little runners to get out and try their best and, hopefully, plant the seeds of a lifetime’s habit. Or at least a love of race bling ..

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