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2 months agoIt’s called going bandit. I do this all the time - not only does nobody notice or give a fuck, there’s tons of other people who do it, like I got the sense maybe 3% of the people in the last race I did went bandit or just didn’t wear the race shirt/bib.
IDK maybe it’s different in different areas but 10ks don’t really matter anyways like it’s just a pedestrian race. Halfs don’t matter either. IDK maybe if you’re in the New York Marathon people would care or something but a 10k is just a bunch of people having a fun time and the size of the crowd is part of what makes it cool - you’re making it cooler.
And honestly fuck it use the facilities. Drink water at the stations and eat a banana when you’re done they’ll just throw them out anyways.
No. Running long distances is basically the one thing we evolved to do well besides thinking, your body has an incredible capacity to adapt to longer distances and make them feel normal. Honestly you’re way closer than October for a 10k if you’re running 4k multiple times a week.
If you only added 10% distance every other week you’d be running 10k by September, but most people don’t do their entire race distance when they’re training.