Tonight I ran on a track. Yep, I get it, not the most amazing place to run. But this was no ordinary track, let me explain…

Now I’ve run on plenty of tracks, I’m a teacher, so I often take advantage of the facilities. The current school I work at has a track, I’ve not managed to get out on it until now.

The initial plan was to do various laps alternating between fast and slow so that I completed a lovely interval session. That was the plan, however we all know that things don’t always go to plan.

I put bag and water bottle on the inside of the track and began a gentle warm-up. It wasn’t long before it became obvious that the track wasn’t as it seemed. It was not a 400m lap. The straights were very short, probably only 10m in length.

There was also a straight bit of track attached to the loop – I assume to make a 100m ‘straight’.

So my time was taken up trying to work out what the actual lap was. I think the lap was 200m which is ridiculous.