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I did a race this weekend, the 16.2 mile edition of the Kingston Breakfast Run. In 16 miles I needed two toilet breaks, one of which necessitated running into a cafe in a cold sweat with a desperate look on my face and being swiftly ushered into the loo. The second one was a portaloo next to a roundabout and I started having a panic about what would happen if a car crashed into the portaloo. After the race I had to leg it to John Lewis to use the loos there too. So, pretty upset stomach then! My legs don't hurt at all today, which is quite nice, but when you spend a lot of the race either needing the toilet or actually on the toilet then your pace is - pun intended - shit.
Feeling pretty worried about the marathon next month now, which is basically the opposite of how I wanted to feel, especially after a disappointing parkrun the day before.
Oh yeah, and as the sun gods were out yesterday I ran in a tshirt and have a friction burn up the inside of my arm which stuck to the bedsheets in the night. Whyyyyy did I not use bodyglide?