The mysterious tiffin runner
Mike | Add a comment! I’ve often thought that I could do worse than, once in a while, simply run up my road as fast as possible 5 times in a row.
It’s probably about 250m - uphill, and would constitute a reasonable contribution to improving my speed in 5k races (as part of a balanced diet of other running too).
But someone else seems to have had a similar idea, albeit with a twist.
Imagine my surprise when I opened my car door and was met by visceral shriek as I nearly disemboweled a lady in lycra sprinting up the narrow pavement in the dark. She was obviously surprised too. She was obviously as focussed on her sprint as I was on telling my kids to pick up their rubbish and get out of the car instead of bickering.
I thought it was strange that she had gone down to the Thali Cafe in her running gear and was returning home at such pace with her stainless steel tiffin in hand (one sees a lot of people with tiffins in our street, but very few in lycra - it just isn’t cool). Even stranger when she trotted back down the road only to pass us again as she sprinted back up.
We see a lot of weird people round here - the kids hardly bat an eye. But they were quite bemused by this one.
Who are you strange tiffin-running woman? What is your odd training technique about? Are you trying to rectify a leaning run by running with a weight in one hand? Is your tiffin full or empty?
Does anyone else know why a person would do interval training with a takeaway in one hand? All thoughts welcome.