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It must the stress of work or the fact that I'm figuratively tied to the desk 10,11,12 hours a day just to keep my head above water, or both most likely, that I went out tonight and smashed 8k. 7k had been my new go-to target, which I set myself just few days ago when I achieved it; that will do for a while I said, but ohhh no.

I took a different route(ish) tonight. I say 'ish' because once outside the village, there are not many route options.

I thought it would help with setting a new 7k route, one that I would become familiar and comfortable with. However, at 7k, I was quite far from home. It was getting late, was very dark (have a great running light now) was wet, not cold though. I didn't fancy a long walk though.

I felt good, was in a good rythm, so carried on toward home thinking another 0.5k I'll be done and I'll have my 5 minute brisk cool down walk to my front door, perfect!

7.5k done, still a way from home, still felt ok, so plodded on. 8k came up, I was close enough to home so slowed to my brisk walk, stopping Strava first of course.

I'll say it now, like I said it a couple of days ago on achieving 7k, I'll stick to this 8k route now, for a week or so. That said, the way I'm feeling when running, the joy of it, the lifting of the day's burdens, I wouldn't put it past me if after the next couple of runs I'm calling in a 9k run, then before I know it, the big 10! Exciting.

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Congratulations on that 8K run, the big 10K soon, you will smash it with a sub 60 minutes time, good luck.

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Roadrunner65Graduate10 in reply toAlMorr

Thanks AlMorr . Reading journeys like yours and so many others on here has been (is) a major motivator.

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Well done, that long run just feels good doesn’t it ?

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Sure did :),

Thank you.

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Great running and a good pace too! That 10k is yours for the taking

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Roadrunner65Graduate10 in reply toBirdlady64

Thanks Birdlady64 . Am as excited about the 10k milestone as I was on the final run of C25K. Shouldn't get ahead of myself, it's still another 2k on top. 🤔

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