6k done and dusted

[backintime]

I am soooooo happy, it started off badly lol.

I did my warm up walk and felt like I had heavy legs and though oh well, tbey'll warm up. Started to run and my legs were shouting abort abort abort ! I couldn't work out what was wrong. I ran three minutes and stopped.

I just knew something was different.

Turns out my son had put the elevation on the treadmill at 4...😒

I know I should have worked it out sooner, but it was hot, my mind was on a work problem. Imagine someone raised your street up without you knowing...no one uses the treadmill except me lol...

Anyway, dropped it back down to 1.5 and got on with my run. ☺

I feel really thick for not noticing it but it was weird and I was not expecting anything to have changed from before.

I threw in my own version of treadmill intervals over the last 1k. Not a flat out run but up a bit then up a bit more over the 30 20 10.

Anyway...t'is done !

[Stephen_UK Graduate10]

Well done. That’s impressive.

Funny that you had a real-life gremlin making problems for you.

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to Stephen_UK]

Yeah...I can laugh now but I thought I'd forgotten how to run haha

[Debston Graduate10]

Well done, you did well to realise what the problem was! I did my 6km this morning, wasn't totally sure when I set off if I would be doing 6km or 5km but really pleased that the longest one is done and dusted. "Only" a mere 5k to go...

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to Debston]

well done! yes, I sort of thought I'd do the longer run today but left a margin of error if I wanted to stop at 5k

remember when we were worried about 1 minute, now its a "mere" 5K it's great isn't it?

[Debston Graduate10 in reply to backintime]

😂 It's insane!

[MuddledGardener Graduate10]

🤣🤣🤣

[Julia187 Graduate10]

Yay well done! My colleagues were laughing at me earlier when they asked what run I had next and I said "just 3k" who'd have thought I'd saying it's just 3k!

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to Julia187]

I know right, I was so worried about week 1, then week 5, then week 9 loomed from afar

finally I stopped looking at the time on the treadmill and I look at the distance, this plan has been great for worrying about how long I have left, 30 mins goes by with nary a glance

[Dottie_D Graduate10]

Lol 3 mins on incline; hill training, well done.

Then for added extra you added speed training too 😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to Dottie_D]

Not sure if hill training requires you to know you are on a hill, hmmmm hahaha

I felt so stupid once I'd realised but on a hill I normally adapt my balance, there I was just trying to run like normal, lol, so weird

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10]

Brilliant BIT! 😅 I think I’d have stropped and flounced off - but then again treadmills make me do that anyway! 🤦‍♀️

Great that you continued regular service and had a good run - with intervals too. And on a treadmill! Ultimate kudos to you! 👏👏

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

The intervals weren't "proper" intervals, I just upped a bit and then upped a bit more

I'm too scared to run flat out on a treadmill, I need to be able to reach the stop button

[cheekychipmunks Graduate10 in reply to backintime]

Well the fact that you’re even thinking about running flat out on one puts me in complete awe of you! 👊😀

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to cheekychipmunks]

On the plus side, the last 1K went past a lot quicker

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

He probably wanted to see you work really hard on that treadmill or thought he was helping 😂😂

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to Buddy34]

Nah, he's 16, I think he was having a joke

[Wimborne]

6k done and you won’t forget that one!!! Made me smile as I once didn’t check the speed and someone before me had put it on miles per hour. Should have seen my legs go... I was a blur till I realised.

[backintime Graduate10 in reply to Wimborne]

Haha...*note to self check incline and units