It’s hard to describe how surreal it is to wander downstairs on a Sunday evening and see, through the ground floor windows, not the occasional passing bus or car, but a tide of humanity; thousands of people, running really fast right to left, mostly silent except for the occasional bleep from a heart monitor, or the clearing of a throat.
The picture above is of that scene, outside my front door tonight. It’s of fit people (including Gamesblog’s Greg Howson) running on the Run London 10k event, sponsored by Nike. We live on the London Marathon route, part of which they adopted for this event, thus guaranteeing another pang of guilt at our exercise regime, or lack thereof. But, given the nippy, damp weather, and dinner cooking upstairs, that pang didn’t last too long…
Paula Radcliffe was running, they say – I may have spotted the huddle she was in, in the first group that hurtled by early on. So soon after victory in New York she wasn’t running competitively, but she was still fast enough to be long gone before I’d so much as managed to open my camera up, let alone take a snap.
Love the pic! It looks as if they’re all smoking – but I guess not.
More of a Chinese Dragon I thought.