Hardcore

It turns out nothing improves your pace quite as much as running in torrential rain, terrified you're going to screw up either your iPhone or your headphones with water damage.

It also turns out there's nothing quite as annoying as Nike+ failing to record the last km, making it look in that all important profile, that you weren't half as impressive as you know you actually were.

Still, I quite liked running in the rain. It focused the mind. I made sure to give passers by plenty of rueful looks, which hopefully conveyed to them that when I left the house it was totally dry.

Also, I finished feeling extra smug.