End of the Magic........(Plan, that is !!)

[Ant50]

Up early this morning and headed straight out for my final Magic Plan run, which was a 10K run. I've already managed to run a couple of 10K's before, so was feeling reasonably confident this morning. I seemed to set off far too quickly, but actually I settled into the quick pace and felt good, I put that down to the excitement of running in new shoes (ASICS Gel Cumulus 22 AWL - love these !). In fact I managed to keep the pace up for the whole 10k and finished in just a few seconds over 62 minutes, so very pleased with that as it was 4mins quicker than my previous 10K.

I've really enjoyed the plan and I can feel that it has improved my stamina, I've gone from feeling like 'maybe I could do 10K on a good day with the wind behind me' to 'I can run 10k now if I want to'. Don't get me wrong I still have some killer runs, these tend to be 4/5k's after I have sat at my desk all day. However, the plan has certainly given me a lot more confidence to try running 10k's regularly and who knows, to maybe push on to the HM.....but let's not get too carried away just yet. Thanks Ju-Ju for the plan and the encouragement.

[Nicky2603 60minGraduate]

That’s brilliant. Photo looks amazing. A big congratulations to you.

[Ant50 Graduate10 in reply to Nicky2603]

Thanks very much. Good luck with the distance version of the plan, keep posting so we know how you get on with it, but I’m sure you will be hitting that 10k figure without too much trouble ! 😀

[Nicky2603 60minGraduate in reply to Ant50]

I hope so. Going for a run tomorrow I have not been since last Sunday. Busy with work family and just ran out of time. I need to make sure I make time..what is your plan now?

[Ant50 Graduate10 in reply to Nicky2603]

I know what you mean sometimes ‘life’ just gets in the way and these cold dark short days don’t help any. Hopefully you will have a good run tomorrow. Not sure what next, think I will try to keep to a magic plan type schedule but maybe do a 10k every two or three weeks, but try to increase some of the 5k’s to 7k or so, just to make longer runs feel a bit more ‘normal’ rather than the exception.

[Hidden]

Congratulations! What a great post and a wonderful photo too. Keep finding the magic in those longer runs 😊

[Ant50 Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks. Will do, think I have got the long run bug now !

[CBDB Graduate10]

Oh wow!!! 🤩🤩🤩 I just started the magic plan last run, so it’s so great reading about others having finished it!

Huge congrats 👏 🎉🥳 !

[Ant50 Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

Thanks. Just take your time and stick with it as it really does work. Good luck.