The last time we blogged about doing something sporty, it didn’t quite work out as planned. Even though Andrew didn’t do any of the training he said he was going to do, he stilll, somehow, completed the New York City Marathon. And in a pretty decent time too. Anyhoo, this year I’m thinking about entering Nike Supersonic. It’s this thing where the fastest 1000 people in London are going sprint off against each other to work who is the fastest of them all. Or something. In order to work this out they have a bunch of trials, the first of which were held in Finsbury Park…

For what was essentially a running race in a gloomy, crime-ridden North London park, the Supersonic trials turned into a pretty glitzy affair. There was a load of free Nike goodies and DJs cranking out loud music to get pumped to, it was basically like one big Rocky training montage. Then out of nowhere Dizzee Rascal turned up in a Lamborghini, straight ballin’. I just tried to focus and keep all of these distractions out of my mind as I limbered up by the starting line.

But as race-time approached I started getting cold feet – mentally and literally. Everyone was really fit and really fast plus getting beaten by a girl would have sucked. In the end I kinda slunk away before my race was called and supersonicked my ass out of there. Obviously I need to do a bit more training before the next speed trial on the October 26 in Crystal Palace. I’ll keep you posted.

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