Ya, well I set out to do 7Km, but then I was enjoying myself.
The weather forecast is terrible for the rest of the week, so I was determined to get my long run in today. Today was calm, cold, and dry (overhead, but not underfoot).
I set off going the wrong way round my 7Km, to give myself some more steep-up practice, and found myself at the top with quite a bit of get-up-and-go left, so I decided to see if I could get up to Orthwaite - and UP is the word!
I could have run back down and taken the easy way back to the village, it would have been about 8.5Km. But by cutting across the fields (mistake!) I could see the other road that is mostly down-hill, and which I knew would be a 10Km.
Okay. They might call it a footpath, but much of it was under(muddy)water... but I persisted, and the 3Km run back down to the village was a joy.
10Km in the bag. Bring on the rain, I don't care.
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Well done to you 'theoldfellow' for achieving your first 10K run in a decent time of around 75 minutes, yes, the weather for the rest of the week is gales and rain, so like here where I live in Central Scotland, it is a beautiful morning for a walk or a run.
This morning I went for an 11-kilometre walk, but I did run a little just to check out on my legs, I hope the baptism went well the other day.
Congratulations and very well done. It was beautiful here all day. Now that I am home of course the weather has turned. Windy wet and cold. Aaarrrggghhhh. I have to do my 5K in this.
I was talking to She-who-must-be-obeyed about it yesterday after the run. But the osteoarthritis that I am supposed to have in my knees has completely disappeared. I'm not sure how, but I applied some Ibuprophen gel a couple of weeks ago, and I have had no trace of it since.
I was dead scared of the final hill down to the village, as it is very steep and 1Km long. But nothing, not even a twinge. Alleluia!🙏
I'm South Wales .... only flat here is canal and river routes, thankfully I have both within a few mins drive. I live at the top of a very big hill..... perhaps one day I'll be fit enough to jog up half if not all of it, but that "one day" is a very long way off and may never be attainable 🏃🏽♀️😊
Brilliant theoldfellow 👏👏👏🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️💥 10k in mud, up and down hills - fantastic! Being in Lincolnshire, I know all about flat, but never done hills, so don’t really know how it would compare. It does sometimes feel like a real slog, although I guess, unlike cycling where you can relax going downhill, running downhill just uses different muscles from uphill🤔
Downhill is easy on the heart and lungs, but hard on the ankles, knees and hips. My main concern has always been the knees, but running 5Km-7Km seems to have improved them. My physio said that there are muscles that stabilise the joints, as well as the power muscles, and that running improves both. If you don't have the stability musculature, then downhill can be much more dangerous. My experience bears this out.
So I guess the message to those who train on the flat is, "don't go fast downhill at first."
Strangely enough I find running when it’s windy invigorating too. Not so much when I’m against the wind. but the return journey was great. I arrived back home yesterday glowing and grinning to myself. Felt upbeat all day then.
Not so keen on the forecast for tomorrow’s run though ☹️
Was there a particular program you followed after the c25k? My aim is to complete a 10 km in June, I think I have time but seem a bit lost with all the running programs, post c25k. Adding 6 mins a week will get me thereabouts and so far that’s my idea and the best one I have seen so far. Any thought?
A lot of us on here have followed ju-ju’s Magic 10 plan (pinned on the right). 8 weeks from 5k to 10k but with a bit more flexibility than C25k. You can either download and follow it yourself or join a virtual training group to get support and encouragement from fellow participants. I think the latest one is just finishing so the next one should be starting soon. Quite a lot of us have done our weekly 5k run at parkrun as well.
Ju-ju's plan is excellent. But I have to say that I couldn't stick with it. Injuries and just plain old age and weather, especially the weather, meant I diverged from it. But just reading her work and looking at her videos are excellent ways of making up your own programme. Ju-ju is the role model.
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Well done. 
For me it's still a long way to 10k. So, for me that sounds as a very great achievement! 
