Hi all. I’ve done it! Sub 1 hour 10K non stop. I’m delighted. I did a 7K loop and a 3K loop. The 3K loop was the loop I used for C25K plan 2 years ago.
Never imagined I’d ever be able to run 10K in 1 hour. I knocked 17 minutes off my previous 10K time.
I’m putting the legs up for the evening.
Damien
Nice one Damien.
Always good to hit a target...........and totally demolish a pb.
Thank you. There was a good 30 mph head wind for about 4K. It feels great to have it completed, especially after a warm shower.
Damien
Congratulations Damienair, I hope you have a wonderful evening celebrating your sub 1 hour 10K run today. 😊 🏃 I notice that you ran it in 58 minutes.15.6 seconds, excellent.
Talking about loops, there is a route near where I live which is 98% off road, after the 5K part ends I can extend it to 10K by up to now walking the second part on a exactly 1K loop 3 times and continuing for the other 2 kilometers to where I started the 5K which begins and ends only a ten minute walk from where I live.
Thank you. Yes it’s great to have a choice of routes and not have to go too far. I’ve a 3.2K, 5K and 7K loop right outside my door. And it’s all street lighting which is great during the winter evenings.
Must start doing more off road trail running.
Damien
That’s fab - well done! Isn’t it your runniversary this week too?
There are a few running anniversaries around this time of the year, the reason being it is now spring and many people including myself started C25K about now, the exact date I started was 18 April 2018, so this coming Wednesday is my runiversary
After a winter break I have resumed running with a few reruns of C25K, last Saturday I rerun week 3 at the exact place I graduated, this morning I reran run 1 of week 4, during the second 90 second walk 2 runners passed me around 10 seconds before I ran the last 5 minutes part of the run, I managed to keep going at the same pace as they were going until they stopped their run, I still had around 3 minutes left until the end of the my run, all in all I enjoyed that run, may repeat either run 3 or 4 next week.
Although I have graduated I am a little concerned about the longer runs of week 5 to 9 after so long a break from them, during the winter months I only reran occasionally runs 1 or 2 to keep my legs in running order during many of the long walks 🚶 I do at that time of the year.
Thank you SueKen, yes my 2 year runniversary is around now or perhaps a couple of weeks ago. I know my Parkrun 2 year Anniversary is at the end of April. I’ve 35 Parkruns complete. Another 15 until I get that lovely red milestone T-Shirt.
Damien
Wow, that’s a great time and what an improvement over your last one! Well done! 👏👏👏
Fabulous time D !!!! Well done. Amazing what 2 years can achieve. Rest easy speedy you. 😀
Fantastic work👍💪😁
It's always great to see what you can really do. Enjoy your rest 🥂
Heyyy!! Great work Damien! Knew you could do it! What’s next? 😉
Thank you Decker. I’m going to run a 10K night run in Dublin on the 28th of April with my Sister. Looking forward to it.
Damien
Well done to you! Brilliant! 😊
Fantastic progress, well done Damien.
Wow! Now that’s something to be truly proud of! 👏👏👏 Very zippy!
Thank you. My legs are tired tonight.
Fantastic time - well done! 🎉
Whoohoo! That is AWESOME! Congrats on smashing that goal!
Thank you so much. I was delighted to be feeling comfortable and able to hold the pace. Although the last 2Km were tough.
Great going Damien...Well done on a super PB! 😊
Happy 2nd Runniversary too! Look how far you have come! 😊xxx
Thank you. Just back from a 3K fun run for the kids school. My legs were ok. I know 2 years ago I would not have been able to do a 3K family fun run.
Yaaay. Excellent. Well done 😊😊
That’s a fab time, well done 👍👍
Nice work Damian! As you know, today was my first 10K - don’t think I’d ever achieve a time like yours, but I’m delighted for you!!
Love this running malarkey!
My last 10K time was 1 hour and 15 minutes. I managed to knock off 17 minutes just by doing 5K interval training. Just concentrate on 5K , and work on 5K speed. And just enjoy longer distance runs. The speed will come from 5K.
Look at me, 2 years ago I was a couch potato. Nothing is impossible.
Damien
Well done!
Maybe I should have waited another day
Starting over! 
A lovely surprise for a lovely morning. My first 5k 😊😊
I’m a 10K graduate yay 😁 
