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My first race -Southampton 10k

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Completed my first ever race yesterday- the Southampton 10000 and finished in about 1 hour 19 minutes with an average pace of just under 8 minutes per km (that’s fast for me lol). The course was great but running (walking) over the steep Itchen Bridge twice is tough. Here’s a photo of it taken by Mike Daish Photography yesterday. Can’t see me 🤣 I would have been behind the camera - way behind. Loved every single minute of it. I love the support on this page, it most definitely helps. My second race is next Monday at the London Vitality 10000. Hope you all had great weekends xx

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Well done! Mudita11 😍

Wow! That’s a great photo ❤️🏃‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

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Mudita11Graduate10 in reply toRunWillie

Thanks RunWillie , I loved it 🥰

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Congratulations and well done to you! Your first race is always special and I’m sure you have lots of fab memories of the day 🙂

Did you get bling?

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Mudita11Graduate10 in reply toIrishprincess

Thanks IP, yes got bling and a t-shirt. Bananas and all sorts of snacks at the end too. I also high-fived a dinosaur somewhere along the route so it was all-in-all pretty amazing x

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IrishprincessGraduate10 in reply toMudita11

High-fiving a dinosaur would be hard to beat!

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Well done to you Mudita11 . That photo frightens me though, far too many people!

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Mudita11Graduate10 in reply toCmoi

Thanks Cmoi. There were 1579 runners in the 10k alone. Not sure how many in total but there was a marathon, half marathon and a 5k too! As I was near the back it wasn’t too crowded luckily x

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CmoiGraduate10 in reply toMudita11

I don't like crowds and I don't like bridges, so that event looks pretty hellish to me. Glad you enjoyed it! xx

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nowsterGraduate10 in reply toCmoi

That's exactly what I was thinking! I'm OK with my local parkrun with about 60-70 people, but 1500?!

We had a 10 miles run here in Belgium yesterday (not me though) in Antwerp. It goes through a couple of tunnels and the last one often 'kills' a lot of people. Maybe your next challenge? 😉

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You never know, this time next year 🤣! I would actually love to do some running tourism. I am particularly interested in doing the Bordeaux parkrun because they have about 6 runners in total so I’ll have a chance of being in the top ten at a parkrun 😂

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nowsterGraduate10 in reply toMudita11

I was very pleased at my placing at the Pwllheli parkrun. It did help that only about 25 ran that day.

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FreecloudGraduate10

Congratulations and well done on 1st race! They can be a very enjoyable experience.

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Mudita11Graduate10 in reply toFreecloud

Thanks Freecloud I really loved it 😊

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Congratulations! I hope you got a medal ! 🥇

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Thanks Dansac29 I did 😊 and a t-shirt too

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