Lost for words

[chickenfeet]

Runners brave marathon heatwave

Best quote: "Temperatures hit 21C at midday"

Try running in Toronto in the summer!

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought that too. Not the Toronto bit, clearly. But I completed my marathon in late June (true, I was walking rather than running; but I walked a lot faster than many people ran), and it was mid 20s (this is Edinburgh I'm talking about). Fuss about nothing!

[kittenexploring.livejournal.com]

A good long run at that temperature might be just enough to get me to take off a sweater.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But one doesn't expect it in April in Britain. And everyone will have been training in the cold and wet of a British winter, so they're not yet acclimatised.

The next major marathon in the UK will probably be run in June in a snowstorm and we'll have, "Runners brave cold snap," headlines. *g*