Another week of the Magic Plan completed - 2 more to go

[swissfish]

I managed to complete week 6, with a 9k run on Sunday. I'd planned a route which according to the map was 9.14 k, but when I got to the end my Garmin said only 8.9k So I had to run an extra 100m along the road and back until my watch showed "officially" over 9k - but I managed it. Final distance showed 9.05k so I was happy I hadn't "cheated"

I had 3 goals in mind when I set off:

1 - to complete the distance

2 - to be under 7 mins / k

3 - (bonus) to do it in under 1 hour

To my delight I managed all 3

If anyone is interested my split times were:

1: 6.52 (I deliberately started off slowly)

2: 6.19

3: 6.20

4: 6.41 (about 3.2k I had to negotiate an underpass at a railway station)

5: 6.28

6: 6.25

7: 6.19

8: 6.04

9: 6.03 (this included my dreaded final 300m uphill section)

So overall I am extremely pleased with my efforts and now feel that 10k should be achievable. I'll repeat this run next Sunday, with my 4k and 5k runs this week - 4k was done this morning, 5k on Thursday or Friday.

I'd love to think I could do my 10k in under an hour but realistically that's not going to happen - hopefully under 7 mins/k though...

I'll keep you posted on progress.

John

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You're fast... no I am not jealous, I prefer running slow and enjoying my run than running fast and feeling dreadful (fast = dreadful for me). I do am jealous that you (and other people) can get so many kilometers in 1 hour. I have to run and be out much longer for the same distance. Which sometimes makes it more difficult to plan a run in my schedule, as it takes so much time. Anyhow, well done 😜 and that 10K is verrry near! I can't believe you didn't add another kilometer to reach it already. When I reached my first 10K I was supposed to run my first 8K. Just added 2 kilometers in stubbornness and there it was: 10K!