This is getting silly! 6 Park Runs and all PBs! Did I really once say (a few weeks ago) that running with others seemed daunting? Truth is, it's inspiring. Mr Garmin says that I am now down to 29:30. I set out to take it easy today with next week's 10k in mind. Just a comfortable long stride (average 1.11m), no puffing and blowing, yet it was a PB. Ridiculous!! I think the explanation must be that the long slow runs have done something for my underlying fitness and this is making the shorter quicker runs less of a struggle. Whatever, I am enjoying it! So, Tuesday now marks the start of the easy build up to next Sunday's 10k race debut. Maybe a pace of 7:00/km would be a sensible target; hope my legs are listening!! Happy running all 😊
The magic of Park Runs: This is getting silly... - Bridge to 10K
The magic of Park Runs
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AlMorrAmbassadorGraduate10
Congratulations Beachcomber66 on ANOTHER. PB, great, good luck for your 10K race next week, I also got a PB this morning, 30.55, it was not on my usual parkrun but a parkrun nearer to where I live, this one is flatter, hence the PB. 😊 🏃
Flat or not Al, they still count 😊. Well done
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cheekychipmunksGraduate10
You are a veritable gazelle nowadays BC! 🦌 When will the PBs end? I can imagine how proud you must feel, and you’re definitely a PR addict! Awesome! Can’t wait to find out how you get on with your 10k. PB I expect! 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️💪
Not a gazelle or feeling proud CC ; just mystified! I really did set out to run easily today. I was running alongside a more experienced runner for much of the way, so maybe I just hit a good rhythm. 10k and 5k PBs in 3 days is pushing the boundaries a bit! Even VO2 max has increased, so I have stopped ignoring it for the time being!!. The most important thing is that I am still enjoying running 16 months on...and swapping posts with lovely VRBs.....now for some focus on the 10k next week !!😊
Ooo I’m excited for you! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
I have my number: no backing out now! This Sandie's fault!, I think that it is a fairly flat route so hopefully it is just a question of not getting carried along by the speed merchants. Couple of gentle 5ks this week: no speeding allowed!!😊
Hehehe can’t let cheekychipmunks take the blame (credit 😃) for all our pushing the boundaries! You see just how much faster you are since you followed my advice to enter a 10k race. Congratulations on the PB today. I was so hemmed in at the narrow start at Lincoln that I only managed 34:07. Will have to return to Market Rasen, the scene of my only sub 30 🐎
You psyched me into Park Run and the 10k race!! Cheeky pulled me along the 10 mile and HM road to ruin😊. Glad you both did though..just enjoying myself at the moment. Both (and throw in Dexy5 And other VRBs too) owed huge thanks if I am being serious for a second 👏👏.. Ok, back to normal 🤪
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Moi? Glad you are enjoying it PB king. Looking forward to seeing your race report too
Yep, you too Dexy5! The forum is a really important source of knowledge and encouragement. ...and the occasional boot up the backside when required 😊
It’s completely flat. 10k out and back from marjuba road car park to Marske and back. Unfortunately there may be a headwind in one direction. On the way back you’ll see the super fast half marathoners coming in 😱
Plenty of practice being lapped at Park Run! I think the winner did a Pb today. Just a nice temperature. I missed the last two weeks; life does get in the way sometimes!
I can’t wait to just do normal runs. Might see you next week?
At Redcar yes. Lots of people milling about in a small area I guess.
Probably at the start line. We set off 2 minutes after you. No parkrun?
Not next Saturday; wouldn’t have been running then anyway of course. C25k rules still apply!!🙄
MuddledGardenerGraduate10
Great time!
JaoJaoGraduate10
This is wonderful to read! I completely agree that longer runs are helping the performance of the shorter runs, amazing how it all works but it does and we should keep going! X
Good luck for your race next week, hope you smash it up!
Thanks JaoJao ....just reaching for the triple chocolate brownie! Must keep my strength up!😋😋
You have my full support for the brownie (or two!) 😂
GranspeedGraduate10
👏🏼👏🏼 I’m doing the “long, slow runs” to build up distance (but nowhere near as far), so I hope MY legs are listening as I read of your success. Lovely progress. 🎉
I think there is something in it Granspeed. It is like suddenly having another gear. The distance takes a while to build up; I first did 10k on Boxing Day, then lost a few weeks to injury( trying to go too far before I had got the leg strength), before starting a steady build up of distance and and parallel strength exercises. There are no short cuts, well not at my age. 👍👍
None at my age, for sure. I’ve built up to an hour, and now I’m following a modified Magic Plan towards 10k, adding 500m a week to my long run. I’ve joined the local leisure centre gym to motivate the strength bit. Nobody holding their breath, I hope! 🥵 But so far I’m enjoying the journey. 😊 Fun to read about successes on the road ahead.
Just taken a peek at your previous posts!, Looks to me as though you are managing your build up brilliantly; not sure about the gardening though 😊.
Gave that a rest, believe me! Now back but with help for the heavy/bendy stuff. 😄
HeavyFootGraduate10
That’s fantastic and you’ve got a pretty long stride. It beats turning up cadence to exhausting levels!! Onwards and upwards😁
Thanks heavyfoot. I play about with stride. I worry about over stretching; I used to get calf trouble, but maybe the calves are strong enough to take it now. Hope so! Will run the 10k more conservatively for sure.
You are flying, BC! (Carry on like this and you might actually take off! 😁) 👏💪🏼
Beachcomber66Graduate10
Don't think so Grumps; feet firmly on the ground. Just enjoying working out what I can do, and being pleasantly surprised. 😊
CoddfishGraduate10
Great progress, and even better, you are enjoying it.
Cheers coddfish. For the moment I am really enjoying run days. Nothing like a bit of success to keep you going😊
Tasha99Graduate10
Well done! I’ve had parkrun withdrawal symptoms the last two weeks 🤣 Came to walk the dog down by the cafe but must people had gone by then. So you are doing Redcar then! Fantastic! I may see you there. I’m not going for a PB though - treating it as a training run. See you Sunday 👍🏽
😊 Thought the 10k was a safe start for my pursuit of bling. Maybe HM next year. My target for Sunday is to finish in one piece😊. Looking at the route I shouldn’t get lost anyway 👍👍
JonathanPGraduate10
Double hat trick BC - well done!🎉 Feels like I've plateaued at present as my last PR PB was in May , but I'm hoping the coming cooler weather might work its magic!
The change in weather suited you in Spring. Your run of good times then was part of the backdrop to my extracting the digit! 😊
Yes it did - and glad I could be of service!😜
damienairAdministrator
Nice PB streak. Your doing great. Your hooked already.
Damien
Cheers Damienair. I see that you are a big PR fan. I have come a bit late to the party, but am making the most of them now👍
I’m late to the party too. Considering parkrun is almost 15 years old we are just fledgling parkrun fans. But fans all the same. That’s all that matters.
BaddieThePirateGraduate10
Wow Beachcomber that’s fantastic 👍😀👏
Cheers BTP. Just excuses for eating cake really 😋
Mmmmmm, cake 😋🍰
Run46Graduate10
That's brilliant Beachcomber, the training and effort is clearly working for you, enjoy it 🏃♂️😀👍
And as for doing your 10K at 7:00km...good luck with that! Once you've learned to go a little faster it seems really hard to slow back down again, you'll have to give your legs a talking to before you get started 😆
Basil Fawlty style; threaten them with a good thrashing!😂
...that'd certainly give the other runners a good laugh before starting off 😂🤣
Goldy14Graduate10
Your story sounds like a carbon copy of mine with a 10k race on the 29th. I have completed 12 Parkruns since completing the C25K, each one a PB. It’s the longer runs that are improving my fitness and although each 5k seems to be a struggle I somehow get faster with each. Good luck with your 10k. My 10k is in Exmouth.
Cheers Goldy14. 12pbs in a row; amazing! The formula definitely works! My 10k is in Redcar up in the North East. Exmouth conjures up pictures of our annual train journey down to Penzance to catch the ferry for our Isles of Scilly holiday. The section next to the estuary and the sea is our favourite! Hope Sunday goes well for you 👏👏👏😊
CrazyDogLady19Graduate10
Congratulations! Park Runs are fab, your time is fantastic, I did my 13th on Sat and it wasn’t unlucky it was a PB! Mine are not as consistent as yours. I’m struggling with the switching from 10k pace to 5k mines the other way round, love my long run pace 😄Keep the success stories coming so encouraging!! 🏃🏻♀️
Keep doing what you’re doing it clearly is working!
Thanks Cp2. Apart from the build up to 10k on Sunday, I will definitely stick to the formula. There will be a tipping point where advancing years start to push in the other direction, but not yet please 😊
Telling me About it! Just out of the physio and still can’t run
Sorry about that. Not just trying to sound sunny... my physio encounters have both involved continuing exercise regimes which have made me much stronger eventually. Just so frustrating!
Yes Basically it’s a long-term work thing as you say with exercises. It’s just I’m going to my parents next week and I was hoping to be able to run in the park as it’s so nice but I’ll just have to go to the pool and sit in the Jacuzzi instead
Beachcomber66Graduate10
Thanks crazydoglady. We are crazydog owners....a crazy but lovely Old English! Well done on the PB; they give you a boost 😊. I am going to do a slow 5k build up run today, just to loosen things up.
10k has been a neglected area for me over the last few months as I stretched out to HM distance. I did a 10k last week in 1:10:14 (a PB), so maybe that should be my target time for Sunday. I expect I will be carried along a bit by the other runners, which is what happened on Park Run. Finishing in one piece will be the main objective; anything else will be a bonus!
Your Park Run PB streak has begun👏👏👏👏
Yes Basically it’s a long-term work thing as you say with exercises. It’s just I’m going to my parents next week and I was hoping to be able to run in the park as it’s so nice but I’ll just have to go to the pool and sit in the Jacuzzi instead
over61andstilltryingGraduate10
I haven't been keeping up with all this! Wow! What a run! Well done to you!
🏃🏻🤸🏻♂️🏃🏻🤸🏻♂️🏃🏻🤸🏻♂️👏🏻👍🌟 💥⚡️🎉😊
How anyone runs a PB and doesn't think that they are pushing it at all, is a mystery to me! Where did your stride length start?
Beachcomber66Graduate10
I think the long slow runs have gradually improved my fitness. On stride length I only have records from when I finished C25k, but it was about .91 and even down to .88 when I was going really slowly to try to increase distance. Part of that was caution because of repeat calf problems. 🤞 they are fixed now so I think I am finding my natural stride; it still drops on longer runs though. I think some people have a natural long stride and slower spm approach where others have a short stride and higher spm. Depends on how long your legs are 😊
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