Electric Run at Wembley

At the station waiting for the train - yes we got lots of funny looks!

So a few months ago, a friend of mine suggested we get a group together to run the Electric Run at Wembley, London. I'd never heard of it before, and more importantly, I don't run much (well, only to catch a bus!)

I thought it'd be a good challenge and had every intention of doing a bit of training in the lead up to it.

Us girls being silly on the Underground!

When doing some research on the run itself, it sounded like a real laugh - lots of neon lights and different Electric lands, dance music being played and a chance to dress up. Needless to say, I didn't actually do any training before the day arrived and decided I could walk a little if I needed to. 

I ordered some neon leggings from eBay which were so thin you could see my underwear so put a black leotard over the top and wore two vests for extra warmth with neon fishnets, again purchased on eBay.

My lipstick was Mac Candy Yum-Yum for extra colour!

Sam, Me & Anneka

We paid £35 to enter the run, and on arrival, we were given our packs - this included an Electric run t-shirt, glow sticks, flashing glasses & a light-up wristband, plus our running number. Sam had bought with her some neon glow paints, so while we waited for it to get dark, we painted our faces and I took way too many selfies!

There was dance music playing whilst waiting at the entrance to the start line and the crowds were really starting to build - we heard around 15,000 people were signed up to run! The atmosphere was buzzing and as it started to get dark - we could really see what we were about to experience.

My nerves started to kick in while we were at the start line, but I was excited too, about to run my first ever 5K! I could see there were lots of runners that clearly do this a lot, and the 3 other girls in my group all love running - two have already run a marathon and the other is due to next year! I didn't want to be lagging behind and have them feel like they couldn't enjoy it, so I said to them they could speed off if they wanted to.

It took about 45 minutes for us to actually get to the start line and there were plenty of runners behind us waiting too.

The course of the run was great - from one side of the stadium to the other, then lapped back on itself, down in to the car park with dance music playing as we were running...

It seemed to go really quickly too, I felt like I'd only been running for ten minutes when I heard we'd already done 3K!

Sam & Kim having a mid-run photo!

The four of us girls almost at the end!

One of the 'lands' we ran through at the end of the course.

There was a waterstop halfway through but I was surpirsed that there weren't more stewards around to pass out drinks. Even the cups the water was served in were neon!

Where a lot of the cups had been thrown on the floor, they had all been trodden on so there was a lot of broken plastic around!

When we saw the finish line we could hear Disclosure - White Noise playing and I swear that is what got me to the end! There was a huge crowd dancing by a giant dance stage once past the finish so we got involved for a bit having a good dance and really soaking up the atmosphere. There were a few bars but it was so busy we couldn't get a drink to celebrate. Also the food stalls all had greasy burgers etc, nothing healthy which I thought was a shame as not everyone would have wanted that.

All in all, I was really proud of myself for doing it, I only walked for a bit of it where I'd heard a song I loved and just wanted to dance and not run! Plus the girls were fine with that too as they didn't want to sprint through it and not be able to really enjoy it. Saying that, we did manage to finish in around 45 minutes.

I'd recommend it for a fun night out with a group, maybe not for a runner looking to achieve a PB! 

I'm now going to look for another 5K run I can do. Have any of you pushed yourselves out of your comfort zone? What runs might you recommend for me to try?

Thanks for reading!

Chloe x