Outdoors in daylight!

[Runninginsingapore]

Today I braved the great outdoors! It was lovely 😊. I’ve done all of my running so far on a treadmill and it has become boring. It has been really useful to train on, as I know how far I’m going etc, but my aim today was to run 6km and the thought of plodding along for nearly an hour ....

So I donned my running shorts and set off, with the target of running for about 50 minutes, which I figured would be approx 6km.

I’m never running long distances on a treadmill again. The sun was out, people smiled at me, I saw wildlife. The traffic lights weren’t great, but the park was lovely. And it didn’t take me an hours traveling time to get to the gym and back!

Including walking I managed 7.4km, my Fitbit tells me I ran for 6.6km - well above my target. It was slow and in some places slower, but I can see now why people run.

This forum (and the c25k) is amazing. Without reading all of your posts I’m certain I would never have got this far! So thank you 😊

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

Good for you for making the break. It's so much nicer outside. That sounds like a lovely run. I transitioned from treadmill too and once outside never returned. Although I had to go back to one in the wintertime because of snow and I found it so hard!

Well done to you on the run and the distance 🙂

[AnnieW55]

Sounds like a lovely run. Your vitamin D levels will benefit too.