10k down. Properly this week.

[la_fouinard]

Well that took 4 months but finally hit 10k this morning. Strictly speaking the first 10k was actually last week but that felt undeserved. Despite having been plagued by injury for much of of my time running silly me got carried away and went straight from 8k to 10k. Made it worse by not even taking it slow and running my 5K speed knocking it out in 58 minutes.

Took it very carefully this week and forced myself to slow down this morning and no niggles this time in a happy (and more sedate) 62 minutes.

Really enjoyed running the full hour plus this time as well. It feels like I can just get into a groove and stick with it.

[Sandraj39 Graduate10]

Congratulations🙂👏 - and well done for easing up a little this time. Plenty of time for new PB’s once your body gets used to the distance!🙂

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Great 10k in a cracking pace, so pleased you enjoyed it. Sometimes slowing down a bit makes your run just that bit more enjoyable. Happy running 🤗

[GailXrunning]

Well done… not that I’d call that second effort ‘sedate pace’!

[la_fouinard Graduate10 in reply to GailXrunning]

Well sedate by my current speed. As I’ve been building up very slowly I’ve been speeding up so ‘fast’ (at least for me) would be about 50-54 minutes. However that’d have been me on the IC so restraint was worthwhile.

[GailXrunning in reply to la_fouinard]

Definitely!

[Hidden]

Congrats with your first/second 10K. As you read, I went from 8K to 10K as well. Maybe it was stupid or crazy, but hey aren't we all a bit crazy?

[la_fouinard Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

No argument there. Just very relieved we both got away with it. Very aware from previous attempts and other’s posts how lucky we both were not to get injured.

[Hidden in reply to la_fouinard]

Very true, we should post a warning: do not try this at home 😉

[la_fouinard Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

😉