I did it. I ran a sub 35 minute parkrun! 😀😀😀 Garmin says 34.36 over 5.04k, so chuffed to pieces doesn’t cut it. I’m absolutely over the moon. 👍💪 I’ve slashed 2 whole minutes off my previous PB and I was literally driving home with a ridiculous grin plastered all over my face - and I really did punch the air at the traffic lights. 😅 Bonkers lone middle aged woman alert! 😀
Not ideal prep either, having gone out for a pub supper (Cajun chicken burger and fries - luscious) and 4 G&Ts ..... hey, maybe that’s my secret!
Another thing which helped was running with the same lady and dog who I ran with when I did my previous PB. Her dog likes mine and she calms him down. Mutually beneficial as his owner speeds me up! 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Anyway, I’m still overly excited and whoever I speak to today is going to get very bored! Hopefully you, my VRBs, understand! ❤️
I hope you’ve all had/will have fantastic runs this weekend too. 🏃♀️👊🏃♂️
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Thanks Dexy! It looks more complicated than it is really. I love it - plenty of challenges with 2 shorter hills and 1 long one, but there’s some downhill and flat too. 😀
Glad you had a good parkrun too. Nice you get to see VRBs at yours. Looking forward to 2 weeks today! I’m wondering whether to bring my dog - I’ll check to see if they’re allowed and decide nearer the time. Isn’t it exciting? 😀👍🏃♀️🏃♂️🐕
Dogs are allowed there cheeky but I don’t know how much room there is on the paths. Just bear in mind that there could be a thousand runners . We have half that amount in Southsea! 🏃♂️🏃♀️🏃♂️🏃♀️
Good point Dexy. We have about 500 runners in Bristol and we thin out fairly quickly after the start, so it’s not an issue. Hmmm, don’t know then. I’ll look on YouTube as they often have time lapse videos of the whole course for certain parkruns.
I looked at the website and on the front page it describes doing the lower part of the course first, then the upper common. But if you click on the course map it shows you do the upper part of the common first and then the lower. Hey ho!
Whichever way it’s done, there will be runners in both directions at various stages.
You could always go on their Facebook page and ask opinions of those in the know. 🏃♀️🐕
I’m still in a state of excited shock CP. It felt amazing and all my splits were in the 6’s except the long hill where it was 7 something. Unheard of for me! 😀
That is great, must be the race spirit (and all your training) paying off! I did my last one at just under 37’ but then it was entirely flat. I’m interested to see what it will be like when I do the hilly ones... 🥴
Ironically I didn’t get a PB the other week when I ventured to a totally flat parkrun. It was 12 seconds slower than my previous hilly PB and I was very surprised by that. Maybe the downhills cancel out the uphills, although I’m sure I read somewhere they don’t. 🤔🤔
Thanks Sandi! I’d have been happy with sub 36 if I’m honest, or even a second off my last PB which was 36.48 - so to smash it was unbelievable! You’ll do it, you know you will! 💪💪
Congratulations cheeky on running your first sub 35 minute 5K in a time of 34.36 at this mornings Parkrun. 😊 🏃.
I know that wonderful feeling, last year after I graduated I wanted to run a full 5K in less than 35 minutes, I did achieve that in the same time as you 34.34. Next goal is to "try" and get a sub 30 minute 5k but first of all I'll rerun some of the C25K program starting at week 3 on the anniversary on the day last year that I began C25K. 😊 🏃
I knew I could rely on my fabulous VRBs, thanks Biddy! My husband is a gazelle and whereas he’s pleased for me, he doesn’t feel the need to analyse it like I do! 😅
Wow! That is brilliant! Go you! I bore everyone when I’ve got a PB and I’m nowhere near as fast as you! I bet you will be sleeping with a smile on your face tonight 😃😃😃😃😊😊😊😊
I did Bridget! I’ve thought of nothing else. No one else really understands except you guys! I showed my splits to my husband and he said well done, but he didn’t expand on that. I could have talked for hours about them! 😅😅😅
That’s why you have to get your family into running cheeky! We all just compete with each other now and stare all afternoon at our results when we get PBs (trouble is we don’t get much else done when this happens 😆).
Too true! I spend far too long on here as it is, and yesterday (and today so far!) have taken the biscuit!! 😅😅
My husband runs as part of his rowing training and my younger daughter does too (she’s a gazelle doing 29.54 at her 2nd parkrun), but they don’t get as excited as me! 🙄😅
I was hoping my daughter could come, but she’s been invited to an engagement party in London and she’s pretty sure it’s that same weekend. So more than likely just me, and possibly my dog! 🏃♀️🐕
Fantastic. You have every reason to be proud of yourself. Keep on with the dogs owner, she seems to bring positive outcome your way. Next weekend a new target!! I do the same talking about my 1 min speed improvement to everyone I meet and I see them rolling their eyes. That don’t seem to bother me as long as I tell them of my supposedly super achievement. 2 minutes is an amazing gain. Very well done. I think I will try 4 gins a night before my runs. Let us know how next week goes.
The funny thing is, I used to be the eye roller whenever my husband tried to show me a video of his rowing stroke analysis or a race! He’s an avid rower and still uber keen even though he’s been doing it for nearly 40 years! 😅😅
I’m more enthusiastic when he shows me now, but only because I want him to return the favour when I bore him with my running! 😅🏃♀️😅
Well I am sure he will not pick it up where your enthusiasm comes from. Either way it’s a win win now. I have to say I envy rowers as my partner is one too but he will not show off his skills to me. I only get to imagine how much he would have worked by his blistered hands🤣 but he gets mine even in preparation stages🏃🏾♀️🏃🏾♀️
Oh fantastic cheeky! A brilliant well done! Two minutes is an amazing amount! 👏👏👏 I was only just saying to Pianism that it was a very good day for PBs because the weather was so perfect. You’ll have to run with that lady more often! 🎉🎉🎉🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️
I know TC, she was fantastic! She was slightly ahead on the last hill and was encouraging me all the way! She asked if I minded and I said no it was just what I needed! 😅😅😅
Wow cheeky a whapping 2 mins of you Pb is fantastic, I love the previous night out prep. I’m not surprised your punching the air excellent run well done you 😀👍🏅😁🍾
Thanks Runsome, I honestly couldn’t believe it! There was me, ordering my 4th beverage, thinking ‘oh well, there’s always another weekend to run well’, and boom! 💥
Great stuff. I know we do our runs constantly and would hope with practice and hard work to improve our times but it seems to me that great achievements come along when we least expect them. I was only saying this to Pianoteacher yesterday. And boom 💥 here you are with another example. I wonder if its us subconsciously putting pressure on ourselves but when we just enjoy it it sometimes we get wonderful results. Oh well I don’t really know but I’ll take them however they come. keep that cheesy champions grin going and you punch the air you deserve it, if know one else knows why all your VRB’s get it. Fantastic PB great stuff 👍😀👍😀
Yay go You !!!! Fabulous PB 😀😀👏👏🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️. Love a good air punch and also Rocky jumps work well for me. Keep Smiling that smile. You deserve to shine all weekend 😀😀😀😀
Thanks Wimborne! I think anything goes celebration-wise for us runners. All our inhibitions go right out the window! 😅😅 I’m still reliving it over 24 hours later! 😀😀😀
Funnily enough even though I clearly worked harder according to all my Garmin stats, it didn’t feel a whole lot different to when I snail round the course. My theory is, the slower you take the hills, the longer they last (or something like that!) 😅 I’m going to see how I get on at our local flat parkrun again next weekend ...... 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
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