DW Runners

In twelve days, I will be running The Spartan Race, which is my first race ever. It's a 5k, but since it also involves wading through mud, leaping hurdles, crawling under barbed wire, dodging some big dude with a stick and jumping through fire, I figured it would be a good challenge. It looked to me like a cross between Calvinball and an obstacle course, which had the right element of silliness to make it my first race.

In a fit of madness, I agreed to run the race dressed as Princess Leia if I could raise £50 for Oxfam and to wear the earmuff braids if I could raise £100. My friends, ever eager to see me make an idiot of myself, have come through. And so I am running the race in this outfit.

O dear.



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If anyone happens to be in Royston, UK on Sunday 19th September, feel free to come along and giggle at me in person. Also, if anyone has any tips about how to secure ridiculous headgear while running a race, please let me know.