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I'm a Man of Course I Don't Read Instructions

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I haven't run for 7 days so was determined to get out today whatever the weather, excepting snow, ice and severe cold. I brought my running Asics Gel-Contend 7 shoes out of retirement. The naughty elves have been around over the weekend as the grandchildren stayed over and my shoes were right at the bottom of the shoebox; I bet it was them. Or maybe they hid themselves as they know they are to be replaced by Asics Metarunners in a few days.

I felt that I needed some helpful encouragement to take me through a return run, especially after the events spoken about in my last post. Obviously I had all your support as well through your kind answers to it.

I decided on one of the 3xC25k+ podcast's with my good friend Laura. Now this is where the title comes into effect. I picked the 'Stamina' one as it had 35 minutes in the title so allowing for the 5 minute walks that was a 25 minute run, ideal! Of course it was.

The second factor was my own fault, I decided to go clockwise on my run which led me to Laura's call for increased speed to coincide with inclines; and you know how I love themπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚.

But that wasn't the biggest mistake! That came at about 25 minutes when I realised that I still had 10 minutes to go AND with an increase in pace AND at the start of an incline.

Yes it was a 35 minute run with 2x5 minute walks included πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

I hold my head up high, I did complete it although an expletive was heard on every breath and footfall. Whether my pacing came up to Laura's 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 I don't know.

As you can see it was a beautiful morning, 12Β° so practically sunbathing weather, distance 5.46km, average pace 6.19, average cadence 188spm(whatever that is), time 34.30(obviously Strava lied about this bitπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚) . Oh Β nowster the only VO2 was on my hair in the shower afterwards πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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nowsterGraduate10

Shampooing to the Max? πŸ˜†

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OldManRunningGraduate10β€’ in reply tonowster

Very good 🀣

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SueAppleRunGraduate1060minGraduate

Fabulous, a perfect run

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61LadyGraduate10

Does uttering expletives count as running at conversational speed πŸ€”

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OldManRunningGraduate10β€’ in reply to61Lady

Not according to my daughter 61Lady πŸ˜‚ I did cross with a runner today who must have been going far to fast as they couldn't even get 'good morning' out. Strangely we crossed later on and they must have slowed down because I had a lovely 'good morning' πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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FrencGraduate1060minGraduate

I remember good old VO2 before it became a dastardly number on my watch! I much prefer the clean hair version 🀣. Well done on a good run today! 😊😊😊

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