Big year and new longest distance

[Cliff_H]

I celebrated my one year Stroke anniversary with a run on Saturday. My half marathon training plan had me scheduled for a 12k run but I really wanted to mark it with something special so I ran my first ever 10 miler so I plodded my way through 17k.

Half Marathon in October to celebrate my 50th 👍

[Decker]

Well done Cliff! Congratulations on getting this distance done for your anniversary 👍🏼💪👊

[Cliff_H Graduate10 in reply to Decker]

Thanks Decker, the missus was annoyed I’d gone over plan but I was feeling strong.

[Decker in reply to Cliff_H]

Understandable but sometimes you just gotta go for it.

[TailChaser Graduate10]

Well done Cliff! Super running to mark your anniversary. Did you know about the new 10 miles badge over in the Marathon forum?

[Cliff_H Graduate10 in reply to TailChaser]

Ah nope I didn’t know about that. I’ll pop over, thanks for the heads up.

[Johnnylewis Graduate10]

Well. Done cliff. Enjoy and good luck with the. Hm

[Cliff_H Graduate10]

I’ve put the right run on the piccy now 😂

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Congratulations Cliff - what a great thing to be able to do for your anniversary! 👍

[ChrisAllen1 Graduate10]

Brilliant run, you absolutely have that half marathon nailed from here, very handy pace for a long run as well.

[uncle_wiggy]

What a fabulous way to mark your anniversary! 💪 Well done, keep up the great training and good luck for October 🤞

[Tinker5393 Graduate10]

Well done , that's some distance 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️😀

[mrrun Graduate10]

Well done mate, that’s a good one! I see we cross our routes at times. I do my interval runs around Streatham Common or Dulwich Park, longer ones all over sarf east London (Streatham/W Norwood/Palace/Forest Hill/Dulwich then back.

You’ll smash HM as a training run way before October! 👍

[Cliff_H Graduate10 in reply to mrrun]

It’s a small world! I used to live near S Norwood Country Park so did my regular runs there including ParkRun. I’m hoping to work up to doing a loop of Tooting, Clapham and Wandsworth but that’s a good 5 miles on top. That hill on Streatham Common puts me off even though it’s round the corner 😂

[mrrun Graduate10 in reply to Cliff_H]

Here’s one for cardio. Do that Common hill, continue upwards to W Norwood and then steep grand finale towards C Palace. If you push hard, it’s oxygen mask time. After that you can do HM on the flat as a joke!

[Lavender1962 Graduate10]

Way to go! Good luck with your training.

[Katnap Graduate10]

That's awesome Cliff! Well done. Do you have to do twice as much for your 2nd anniversary?

[Cliff_H Graduate10 in reply to Katnap]

Thanks Kat. I think I’ll be stopping at a half marathon, my partner is pretty adamant she doesn’t want me breaking myself doing a marathon 😂

[Katnap Graduate10 in reply to Cliff_H]

Well I won't tell if you don't.. 😁