4. Skipping Past Pandas
There you are. On the starting line for, say, The Great North Run. Eye of the Tiger is instilled in your bones and you will assume the starting klaxon has gone because thousands of people are pressing buttons on their watches and...OFF YOU GO!!! Only, you dont. You see, when you submitted your entry months ago, you were quite honest when you said you could finish the race in, say, 1h50m. Unfortunately, most other people werent quite so honest and all those pandas and gorillas and pantomime horses, they have no intention of finishing in this time, they just wanted to be nearer the front! So you spend the first three miles skipping past the cast of Darren Aronofskys Noah or, even worse, people who just stop in front of you like Romeros zombies! That PB you were after? Not a chance after that maze of running youve just undertaken. In fact, you spend so much time darting around other people that youve probably run an extra mile just getting round them. Anyway, good on them. Its all for charity. Just get out of my way panda-boy.