Ep 19 Huw's Soft Rock ordeal. Plus Josh Kerr's mile, the Tour de France, and fear vs your body actually protecting you

So how do you add up your last week, Alice? Give us just scores or from sort of home or personal and running.

Personal scores.

It's been a bit mixed, but I'm going to go with a seven.

I actually...

You know, I think we've shared before that I did medicine, clinical medicine for a long time.

But actually, I stopped practicing when I went into finance and I gave up my license.

I still, you know, a doctor and registered and all of that.

But I got my license back in the last week because I'm going to be starting a bit of medical work again.

So that was actually quite a weird feeling just to... get that sort of tick up and got my full license back.

Like, for example, if I wanted to start writing some prescriptions, I know that I'm not going to, but it's just small things like that in your mind.

You're like, oh, I get to practice again.

So that was quite cool, actually.

And then running, I'm giving a nine out of 10 because I had a really great week.

I had a great session on the track.

I did a really good tempo run.

My Saturday session, you know, everybody who's been listening will probably remember that my coach has been setting these sessions where I do my warmup, I do a marathon pace block, I then run a 5K or park run, and then I do some more marathon pace blocks.

So, I think week before, I said I was too busy talking to a friend and I missed the park run, so I had to do my own.

This week, I'd actually entered a race and I run through an organization that do lots of races all over, I guess, the UK, but there are lots in London.

And they had one in Battersea Park, a 5K, a 10K and a half race.

marathon there was 5k was starting at a sort of quarter past 11 so anyway I did I got to the park nice and early it was mayhem because they had park run and then they were setting up for the 5 10k and a half there were so many people running so by the time it got to 10 past 11 first of all I also was really a sort of tour guide and showing so many people to the start of the race and I mean, I don't know how I got involved.

Maybe I look friendly, which I don't think I look friendly, but for whatever reason, a lot of people ask me, where do I go? So I was jogging people back and forth to the start, showing them where to start.

They lined us up with a 5K, a half marathon who had already been underway for something like, I don't know, 45 minutes.

The 10K was about to go.

They are walking the 10K people to a different place to start.

They're going in the opposite direction of the traffic of the half marathon.