Another accidental 10k story. 🙂

[Impetuous]

I went for my week 4 8k run yesterday, nice and early before the family woke up and the chores begin. It was my first time doing 8k so I’d picked out a nice new route along the nearby river. All went to plan up to the half way point, except that I hadn’t quite hit 4k by the time I was meant to turn. Realising I could squeeze in a little extra distance, and thinking I was close to a route I used to cycle to work, I took an unplanned turn and headed off down a country road....

As you will have guessed, this did not turn out as planned. 1km down the road I came to a complete closed bridge across the motorway. Did I recognise this as a sign I should turn around and go back go my original route? Of course not. With the extra 1km each way that’d make it close to 10k, best to go around the bridge....

A very muddy path, a jump over a fence and another 2km later I made it to the other side of the bridge. Even better, I know my route home... but I’m not quite where I thought I was. Off I set again, no break in the pace as I’m now cutting it fine to get my daughter to her drama class.

In the end, I made it home, with a few new achievements under my belt. 🙂 I ended up doing 12k of running, over 1h 12m, and just missed the sub-1h 10k time too! Not bad for someone who hadn’t run until 3 months ago.

Back to 8k again next week, I’ll see if I can get it right next time.

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

What a fantastic run and an amazing time. Very impressive. 😀👍🙆‍♀️

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

12k of running is amazing and it sounds like an assault course today.

Be careful doing too much too soon.

😊😊

[Impetuous in reply to Buddy34]

Yeah, my hips were feeling it towards the end, definitely back to progressively building up next weekend.

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Well done Impetuous (very apt username!). That first 10k, or 12k in your case, really feels special!👍🎉😀

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Wow well done! That is a massive jump but as Buddy34 said, do take care to avoid injury.