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First 10K in ages

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I ran a full 10K earlier today after 3pm, no walking breaks or pauses. I kept a nice easy pace and finished in a time of 1:11:18. It felt great, I was comfortable and enjoyed the nice easy paced run although I was surprised that I was 50% in Zone 4 and 50% Zone 5 according to Garmin Connect. For some strange reason my run did not push from Garmin Connect to Strava. It was my first 10K in a year. Amazing, now that parkrun is back I have a drive to improve again, get my finish times down and increase my running. I lost my motivation over Covid times but it’s back. My legs feel tired, looking forward to a rest day tomorrow.πŸ˜€

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Instructor57Graduate10

Very well done ! πŸ˜πŸ‘

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Dexy5Graduate10

Damienair is on the road again. 🎼 🎢 🎡

Well done you, especially after doing a speedy parkrun yesterday. It sounds like normal life has come back with being back to work and visiting family again.

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damienairAdministratorβ€’ in reply toDexy5

All thanks to parkrun really. It has given me a drive to improve my fitness and running.

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DylanTheRabbitGraduate10

Nice to see you've done it, after giving me the motivation to do it sooner rather than later.

Well done!

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damienairAdministratorβ€’ in reply toDylanTheRabbit

Likewise, seeing you cross the bridge yesterday spurred me on to do it too.πŸ˜€

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AlMorrAmbassadorGraduate10

Excellent run and time for you today Damien, especially after yesterday's parkrun, not long before you can run a sub 60 minutes 10K. πŸ‘πŸƒπŸΎ

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damienairAdministratorβ€’ in reply toAlMorr

Thanks Alan. I’ll be happy running a sub 30 minutes parkrun first.

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SueKenGraduate10

Yay! Well done!

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FreecloudGraduate10

Wow, very well done!

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Doris8Graduate10

Well done

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Sandraj39Graduate10

Well done on your 10k damienair ! Good also, that you’ve got that motivation back.πŸ™‚

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Sammy-Lou

Well done Damienair πŸ‘ I’m slacking for now as re cooperating after my frozen shoulder op Wednesday! Happy running and I’ll be back ASAP !!!!

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damienairAdministratorβ€’ in reply toSammy-Lou

Thank you and wishing you a speedy recovery.

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OldflossAdministratorGraduate10

Great run there... well done you. Back on track!

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JonathanPGraduate10

Great to hear you're back to 10k distance Damien - well done!

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Skiddle1Graduate10

Sounds like you really enjoyed the run ☺️ well done πŸ‘

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TailChaserGraduate10

Really good news Damien πŸ˜ƒπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

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StringsandKeysGraduate10

Amazing well done!

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IrishprincessGraduate10

It’s always a great feeling when you get back again πŸ€— Well done Damien, enjoy the return πŸ™‚

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Raisemeup60minGraduate

Well done Damien, I thought it wouldn't be long before you ran your 10k, and very good time too.

Congratulations, hope to follow in your footsteps before too long. Best wishes ☺️

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damienairAdministratorβ€’ in reply toRaisemeup

You'll do it, I did the version of The Crossing the Bridge Gang method myself a good few times before to get to 10K. Just adding 500 meters per week onto a long run works without pushing you too far. Good luck.

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Raisemeup60minGraduateβ€’ in reply todamienair

Hi Damien, yes I feel I can do it (10k) but post lockdown, with other activities resumed to schedule in, I'm only regularly fitting in one run a week so it's holding my plan back a bit.Never mind, I'll make the best of it!

Ran a 5k yesterday so that can at least be a 'not Parkrun' ; I'll add it to the Parkrun thread.

Have a good day. 😁

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SueAppleRunGraduate1060minGraduate

10k does that, makes the legs feel tired, fantastic though to have run that far

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LottieMWAmbassador

Well done! πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

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nowsterGraduate10

Well done! I initially misread the screen at the bottom as saying "Call 911". 🀣

And Strava was really flaky on Sunday. At times I couldn't even pull up my own profile.

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damienairAdministratorβ€’ in reply tonowster

Ha Ha πŸ˜€ I felt like calling 911 afterwards. Could not get Garmin Connect and Strava to link, but just before I went to bed on Sunday night it worked.

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