First Time Runners

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Tips

Do not start the race in a brand new pair of trainers - or any other running kit! Make sure that you have broken your kit and trainers in by running in them previously - you don't want to end up with blisters or an uncomfortable run due to inappropriate clothing!

Mountjoy

Professor Alistair Black - an experienced marathon runner and Professor in Innovation North - discusses Mountjoy:

If some of you are worried about over-exerting yourself in the Great Student Run, then the achievements of the celebrated mid-nineteenth-century pedestrian runner and walker Mountjoy should put things in perspective and ease your anxiety (pedestrianism was the name given to long-distance running and walking before they became part of organised athletics). Mayhall’s Annals and History of Leeds (1860) records that on 8 October 1842 Mountjoy completed the feat of:

‘walking from Leeds to Bradford and back again, three times within fourteen hours, on six successive days. On the 17th of the same month, at the Victoria cricket ground, Woodhouse moor, in the space of half-an-hour, he ran one mile – walked one mile forwards and one backwards – trundled a hoop half-a-mile – wheeled a barrow half-a-mile – hopped upon one leg 200 yards – ran backwards two hundred yards – picked up 40 eggs with his mouth … and brought each egg in his mouth, and deposited it in a bucket … After a rest of thirty minutes he also … ran seven miles, and leaped over sixty hurdles, having an egg in his mouth while leaping over the last twenty’.

So, don’t forget your eggs, hoops and wheel-barrows on 29 April !

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