Does running for long distances feel like an impossible task? Writer Alex Sims explains how signing up for a 10k race without any experience repaired her relationship with exercise.
What I didn’t expect was the atmosphere. This was the first time I had run any kind of distance withbeside me and not only did their presence diminish my pre-race jitters, but they also gave me running tips along the way. I learnt warm-up stretches I’d never heard of before, I found out runners should push themselves rather than pull their limbs and that it’s good practice to count up the distance markers until you reach the halfway mark and then count down to the finish for motivation.
Throughout the whole run, I felt like part of a beautiful team. At the starting line, there were ladies with “I’m 80” written across their T-shirts, groups raising money for charity sang and danced their way to the start, and runners who had already finished the race arrived at the sidelines to cheer on those still going.
The steel pan bands, choirs and DJs along the route encouraged us on as we pounded our way through central London. By the time I’d jogged past the 7k mark and into the unknown, I was riding high. I’d kept my pace steady and thanks to the pace-makers running alongside us I felt OK, rather than a failure, to be running slower than lots of the other participants. In fact, the fun-filled atmosphere eschewed any sense of competition or
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