Well as many of you may know and have so kindly written in support of, today was meant to have been my first parkrun, post graduating in the C-5K programme.
But as you may have seen, the parkrun was cancelled due to the waterlogged conditions.
Setting aside this frustration, together with my son, a regular parkrunner who had come home especially to support me, we did our own substitute run, replicating a good part of the official route minus the quagmire!
With the Week 9 podcast in my ears and my son using his Strava app (calibrated in miles not km!), we broke 30 minutes some way off the magic 5K ... and kept on ....
At 3 miles (only 4.8K as I later discovered!), we called a halt - at 36 minutes, 23 seconds. I am not quite sure what that equates to had it been the full 5K - may be 38 minutes (?).
Verdict: I reckon I could have taken at least 5 minutes off the 43 I took to complete my only previous parkrun at the end of last October (pre C-5K).
It was great to run with my son in support ... in windy conditions with several hills - but a shame it wasn't quite the 'real thing" !
Now, I ask myself - and would love to hear others' views of course - do I try parkrun next weekend ... or just, may be, enter a local charity 5k instead? I am tempted by that goal and cause (and to be honest by the chance of winning my first-ever medal 😄) but perhaps it would be over-ambitious too soon (4 weeks after C-5K graduation)?
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