First 10K in ages

[damienair]

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.😀

[Instructor57 Graduate10]

Very well done ! 😁👍

[Dexy5 Graduate10]

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.

[damienair Administrator in reply to Dexy5]

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

[DylanTheRabbit Graduate10]

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

Well done!

[damienair Administrator in reply to DylanTheRabbit]

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

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

Excellent run and time for you today Damien, especially after yesterday's parkrun, not long before you can run a sub 60 minutes 10K. 👍🏃🏾

[damienair Administrator in reply to AlMorr]

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

[SueKen Graduate10]

Yay! Well done!

[Freecloud Graduate10]

Wow, very well done!

[Doris8 Graduate10]

Well done

[Sandraj39 Graduate10]

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

[Sammy-Lou]

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

[damienair Administrator in reply to Sammy-Lou]

Thank you and wishing you a speedy recovery.

[Oldfloss Administrator 60minGraduate]

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

[JonathanP Graduate10]

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

[Skiddle1 Graduate10]

Sounds like you really enjoyed the run ☺️ well done 👍

[TailChaser Graduate10]

Really good news Damien 😃👏👏👏

[StringsandKeys Graduate10]

Amazing well done!

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

It’s always a great feeling when you get back again 🤗 Well done Damien, enjoy the return 🙂

[Raisemeup 60minGraduate]

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 ☺️

[damienair Administrator in reply to Raisemeup]

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.

[Raisemeup 60minGraduate in reply to damienair]

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. 😁

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

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

[LottieMW Ambassador]

Well done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[nowster Graduate10]

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.

[damienair Administrator in reply to nowster]

Ha Ha 😀 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.