On my way to 10k

[Flyingred]

After 4 weeks of post-graduation consolidation, I've decided to go for 10k. I was inspired by reading Jeff Galloway's 5k/10k book and Lisa Jackson's 'Your Pace or Mine?'

I've been running 3 x 5ks over the past few weeks so today I added 10% of my weekly total to run 6.5k. I used Runkeeper to set my 90/30 intervals and stopped after the 2nd 'run' interval after 6k. Turns out I ran 6.7k at an average of 6 minutes 30 seconds. I'm counting today's run as completing my week 3 of Ju-Ju's plan.

Looking at my split times, I 'lost' a minute between the 2nd and 3rd kilometre when an incoming call messed up the interval timer on the phone and I had to stop to sort my apps out. I will be running with my phone in flight mode from now on!

This morning, I also worked on my running form, keeping my feet as close to the ground as I could (thanks Jeff Galloway!) and somehow, I felt more like a runner. I'm buzzing from achieving a new distance record for me and really looking forward to weeks 4-8! Who knows where it will end?

[misswobble Graduate10]

Who knows indeed! Just go very carefully and steadily and don’t increase distance by more than 10% a week. If you’re careful you avoid injury

It would be a good time now to start looking at cross training on your non-run days Cycling, swimming, walking more, gym or home-based strength work to get your core and upper body in good shape and strong.

We tend to Sag in the middle when we tire, so having a strong core makes sense Yoga is ace too. Dancing etc it’s all good 😃👍

[Flyingred Graduate10 in reply to misswobble]

Thanks for your helpful advice. I have been walking on rest days, making sure I do at least 10,000 steps. I should do more though, like go out on my bike (but it's quite a faff compared to running!). I'm definitely going to do squats, lunges and plank on rest days.

I found myself looking at resistance bands on that shopping site with the same name as a river in South America, but I stopped myself in time!

[misswobble Graduate10 in reply to Flyingred]

I think that about the bike as well 😃