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🥶🥶🥶🥶 I was forewarned by fellow runners reporting very cold runs!

👩‍💻And after 5 day rest due to a heavy late-night-work week at work, but which also benefitted my knee niggles, I ran my first ever real interval 5k (apart from the stepping stone podcasts)

🏁This is part of the preparation for the 10k Race at the Easter Festival of Running by Runderwear which have designed their own working plan : runderwear.co.uk/pages/fest...

❄️ I am a week behind dijep but today I finally started. It was very cold and icy 🥶🥶🥶 (see picture of icy stream I ran alongside) and as an ultra slow runner 🐢 I feel that my bandwidth of different speeds between jogging and sprinting is probably much smaller than anyone else’s. So I assume what is my 3/10 and 7/10 is somebody else’s 3/10 and 4/10.

🧟‍♀️ But it was fun, specifically as I programmed the intervals into my ZombieRun App, so I had Zombies chasing me as well!

🚀 But I did run one of two fastest 5ks. So it must be working.

🏃🏽‍♀️On RunLEJOG I’m finally entering Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿!

🏃🏽‍♀️ On Hadrian’s Wall I’m half-way at Muckle Moss and love that name!

Happy running everyone!

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Buddy34 profile image
Buddy34Graduate10

Great you got out for a run CBDB and well done on the 5k . Well done you 👏👏👏👏

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toBuddy34

🥰 🙏

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David_G

Well run CBDB it’s certainly cold out there today! 🥶 I planned a route that would give me at least a bit of protection from the biting wind down towards the seafront. I did at least have the benefit of the wind behind me for the final 2K so my plan sort of worked!🙂👍I finished my 5K in 31:16 so I was pleased with that😊

It was far too chilly to walk back from there, so I did a slow 2.2K jog so I wasn’t too tired but didn’t get too cold either. It’s a fine line between those two!😀

I’m doing LEJOG4 and I’m just north of the Cairngorms National Park in the virtual world, so under 150 miles to go!🏃‍♂️

I’m also doing the Runderwear Festival at Easter so I’ll see you on the virtual start line for that😊

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toDavid_G

Ohh nice, so as far as I know it’s you, dijep and me doing the runderwear festival. Have you seen their Instagram feed where they drop videos of Pilates for runners and other things?

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David_G in reply toCBDB

Thanks CBDB, I haven’t seen that as I’m not on Instagram, but I think they emailed me about anyway. I’ll see if I can find their email and have a look! 👍

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toDavid_G

Yeah, I don’t use Instagram either but have an account just for these purposes.

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Elfe560minGraduate

Very well done CBDB, hope you had two buffs on! 🥶😄(Running from Lands End to John O’Groats AND along Hadrian’s Wall is just greedy!!😂😂)

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toElfe5

Yeah, I know I was a bit greedy, but I have to admit that after seeing so many runners getting their bling, and the likely scenario that I wouldn’t be able to finish LEJOG in the allocated 1 year time and thus not getting a medal, I just needed to enter a race for that very first runner medal!

(I did get a first ever medal a few weeks ago as I indoor-rowed the English Channel, so yes, greedy 🤣🤣)

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Elfe560minGraduate in reply toCBDB

Love it! 😂😂😂 Soon you will need a medal display bracket on your wall! 😁

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toElfe5

🤣🤣🥇🏅🥈🥉

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toElfe5

And I did actually have 2 buffs on 🤣🤣 and a cap and a hoodie, 2 long-sleeved and 1 shortsleeved short, a vest and a partridge in a pear tree 🎶 ....😉

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GrannyhugsGraduate10

Great chilly run for you navigating the icy patches, well done. Happy running 🤗

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toGrannyhugs

Yes, the ice 🧊 behaved today and stayed in its stream bed! 🤣🤣🙏

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dijepGraduate10

It's certainly very cold out there today, I'm glad I went yesterday. Well done for getting out and on your speedy 5k 👍I decided to use my HR Zones as the "effort" that the plan suggested and programed them into the workout on my watch.

I really will have to try the Zombie run sometime 😉🏃‍♀️🧟‍♂️

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply todijep

Yeah! Zombies are good fun. I don’t monitor my HR Zones, as I don’t have a Garmin. Just my smartphone. But I can tell from my breathing pretty much where I am, I think, and this is probably easier as I don’t have such big difference in speed between slow jogging and sprinting.

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Well done and Croeso I Gymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌬❄️🌨

...and running from those pesky zombies 🧟‍♀️ too 😂

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toLottieMW

🙏💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and I love Wales!

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SueAppleRunGraduate1060minGraduate

All that and Zombies too, well done getting out in the cold

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toSueAppleRun

Yes! 👍🏽🙏🧟‍♀️🥶

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LittleoyellowGraduate10

As far as I'm concerned your jogging is pretty fast then! Cheering you on from the injury couch in all your efforts 📣

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toLittleoyellow

Oh no you’re still on the IC? Wishing you a lot of patience. (Is it still the hip?)

And thank you! 🥰

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LittleoyellowGraduate10 in reply toCBDB

I'm going to have the seat on the IC well warmed by the time I'm able to run again 😬 hip properly suffering from overdoing it on the hill training- what a way to learn 😥 I'm going to need that patience- thank you for sending me some! 😁👍 I will continue to cheer you on through my rehab 📣😁🤗

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