How often have I run 10k? The honest truth is once, last year at the Chester 10k just days before we went into the first lockdown. I really didn't think I could run 10k but on the day I did, I loved it and signed up almost immediately for the next one. welshhillsagain.blogspot.co... Here is a link to the blog I wrote afterwards when I was still buzzing with excitement and incredulity.
March 2021 10k was postponed of course because of the pandemic. That was a good thing for me because I couldn't have done it at that stage. I had four months off running over the winter after a health scare and when I started again in February I couldn't run all of 5k, never mind any further. Slowly (because I am slow!!) I got back into the swing of running two or three times a week. I was pleased that I had not lost all my fitness in my time off but it has taken me a long time to get back to where I was. Today I ran my fastest 5k since last September and I have been trying to build up my distance again, returning to the magic plan! In fact this is the third time I have followed the magic plan. Two years ago I ran the timed version, feeling I was so slow that if I ran the distance plan I would never be home. Then last year in readiness for the Chester 10k I had a go at the distance version. I have to admit I did not get to 10k before the race but I had run 7k and on the day I made it. This time I have got as far as 9k. Distance daunts me a bit still but I have overcome my mental block which in May was telling me that there was no way I could go further than 6k. So I am sort of ready. This weekend I intend to do 9k again and then I will take a few days off in readiness for the real thing on the 18th July.
If I am honest I am still nervous. I still find it odd to think of myself as a runner after 64 years of emphatically not being one! But I must be. It is two years and three months since I graduated from couch to 5k and here I am, still doing it, still loving the fact that I can do it even if I don't always love it at the time. I haven't really got any faster (although I have got older which is sort of an achievement!) and I am really hoping that I can do the 10k in one hour and twenty five minutes, my time last year. Any improvement at all will be a bonus but just doing it without injury would be a triumph.
I read the posts on here every day and think this is great community. Sometimes I am a bit overwhelmed by the speeds and distances that others achieve but I tell myself that I am doing this for me and my own health. I thought I would post today for others like me who will never be fast but who are still here, still running, still smiling! Snails rule!!
20 yrs to get to 10K :)
Will I ever get to 10k
So here we are again ☺️ A Tuesday Morning 10k… 👋🏼🏃🏻♀️🐌🔟
Running plan to get from 5k to 10k
Update: Working towards 10K
