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Sri Chinmoy 24 Hour Race - Tooting Bec

Let's do another lap... Eighteen months ago I didn’t even know 24-hour races existed. A year ago I crewed for Matt Bixley and watched my very first one. Things went downhill after that as I got sucked into their crazy circular world. Training over the last three months had consisted of the following: -           A handful of 15 minute jogs -           Less than a handful of 30 minute jogs -           Completing the Speyside Way -           Learning to swim a mile -           Increasing my stamina on the rowing machine to a whopping 15 minutes It might not be the training schedule that you’d find if you googled ‘training for a 24-hour race’ but I worked with the body I had after a slow WHW recovery. In hindsight the Speyside Way might not ha...