It was a hot weekend for one race, let alone two ... Come and share your top tips for evening racing and post-race rehydration below the line as always
So it’s a glorious Friday night, still blazing hot, the end of a long day and a full working week. What do you do? Hit the nearest beer garden or park, surely? No, of course not. You head to Walthamstow to go and run around in a 400m circle 25 times as fast as you can, naturally. Runners: making peculiar life choices since, well, forever.
Well that’s what I did anyway. Lining up for the start of my 10,000m race as part of Orion Harriers Fast Friday, it was still about 27 degrees. I haven’t felt that nervous before a race in ages - not helped by the fact that I never quite know what to do with myself before an evening race: how much should you eat during the day? Would a 5am start mean that an 8.15pm race was past my bedtime? Would I implode - or explode - due to the heat? Fortunately, I neither exploded nor fell asleep mid-race and finished in 39:32 - slower than I’d have liked, but respectable enough given the heat.
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