Knee Knacker runner Sean Lavin has done been doing some research related to weather on Race Day over the past dozen or so years. Here is the first chart he has pro­duced show­ing the max­i­mum tem­per­a­tures (Cel­sius) on Race Day:

The reader is left to draw their own con­clu­sions based on this chart, e.g. is global warm­ing for real?

It may also be useful to com­pare the tem­per­a­tures on the chart above to the median fin­ish­ing times in this chart. Expect fur­ther analy­sis from Sean (or Enzo).