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| My view while marshalling the first ever Peckham Rye Parkrun |
The longest day, hot sunshine from start to finish. Perfect for a rest day before a half marathon. Yet my rest was rather active. First a cycle over to Peckham Rye to marshal the first Parkrun there. A great success: 201 runners. Upbeat mood. After this I repaired to the café to talk Parkrun and other matters with Hillyfields buddies. Two of them are running the Hackney Vitality Half tomorrow, as am I. I have many reservations, from this angle, about my predicted performance. They are:
1. Menstrual period. Ho hum.
2. Tired legs, because I had to walk quite a long way to pick up my number from the Hackney Half Marathon runners' village. A long, hot, but pretty walk through the Queen Elizabeth Park (Olympic Park), plus all the shenanigans trying to find the right platforms for the DLR journey
3. Sore feet, because I stupidly wore pumps for this walk, and sustained a blister on my big toe joint. Ho hum
4. The heat. 26 degrees C is forecast.
5. The pressure, I'd quite like to snag a PB. That would mean 1:47
6. The embarrassment. The press (that's me, because I'm writing about it for Women's Running magazine) line up behind the elites.
7. The embarrassement #2 Running with my period inevitably incurs a lapse into stress incontinence. EVB shorts, please don't let me down.
Here are my sore feet. Am I having cold feet?
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