Running round and round in circles for a full day and night? The things Adharanand Finn will do in the service of the running blog ...
Many years ago, I worked as a writer for Which? magazine, and often had to visit its testing laboratory in Milton Keynes. Without giving away any secrets, they test things vigorously at Which?. There were rooms for overheating microwave ovens until they exploded. There were sound labs peopled with experts sitting with their eyes closed. They had a bumpy treadmill-type thing for testing baby buggies to see how they performed over hundreds of miles.
I thought of all this when I signed up, in a moment of madness, to the Self Transcendence 24-hour track race in Tooting. I would be a human guinea pig, I thought, running around in circles for hundreds of laps, testing out running products to see if they could really stand the heat. This was Which? magazine-level product testing. Like the Duracell bunny, I could be the ultimate kit tester, for a day.
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