5th June Does Michael Mosely do runners?

Having watched Michael Mosely transform five unfit flabby fatties into five slightly less unfit, slightly less flabby fatties through a twenty one day regime of starvation, shame and step classes, I am wondering if he could do the same for runners. And one pedestrian plodder in particular.

Today marks the three week countdown to the Round Sheffield Run, an 11 stage, 14 mile run around the parks and green spaces of what can ony be desciribed as an undulating city. Cancelled last year due to the discovery of the' Eh By Gum' Yorkshire Covid varient which threatened to trun participents into flat cap wearing, pudding eating, tea drinking grumps, it's now back on.

The event is described as a novel event. Not because one is encouraged to read a book whilst running but rather that one does not have to run the entire distance or for all the time. Now to be honest, if I could actually manage to do both of those things, at the same time, during the same run, would transform it into not just a novel event but into a singularly unique one in my running career.

After yesterday's sweat soaked woodland wander I am now setting my usually low bar even lower with the hope that I can simply manage to run all 11 stages of the run before it goes dark. Which given it will only be a week past the longest day of the day might just about be possible, even in my state of lockdown lardiness.