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After a horrible 3k when I could not settle, followed by a hard 4k (for no particular reason) earlier this week, I thought my 10k plan was never going to happen, but today was the day! I almost called it quits at 7k, but watching a runner calmly and effortlessly passing me somehow gave me the motivation not to give up. Having reached 8k a week ago, I was determined to beat my PB, and when I reached 9k with some energy to spare, there was no way I was going to stop short of my goal today!

When I started running again earlier this year, 10k seemed an impossible goal and I wasn’t sure how realistic it was, so I am super happy to have achieved it 😁.

At this stage I’m not sure if I want to run further, so I think I’ll focus for a while on 5-8k runs and try out some speed work for a change, to improve my pace.

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Congratulations well done for keeping on going!! πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»

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Well done to you on completing that 10K in a reasonable time of 1:16:34, glad you enjoyed your run, I hope to run my first 10 K of the year on Wednesday, probably around the same time βœ…βœ…πŸ‘

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Sulley101Graduate10β€’ in reply toAlMorr

Thank you! Good luck with your 10k!

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I had to a reply to your post as I did the same as you this morning I made up my mind I was going to do the first 10K run since I had a bunion op last May

I redid C25 K in August and this time felt as though I made really hard work of it but still done it much harder this time round 5 years older and every run I said the same thing I cannot ever start this again it was so hard

I have been plodding on ever since not really that comfortable but running is just about the only thing I do since all the lockdowns

I got to 9 and a half K last Monday so went for it I felt like I was dragging myself along at some points but yippee finally done I’m so happy when I got home I had Strava 10K and 100 K challenge badges for March that cheered me up.

I am not far from you Essex anyway I’m in Gidea park Romford

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Sulley101Graduate10β€’ in reply toMumpark

Congratulations on your 10k too! It was a challenging run for me . I know what you mean about dragging yourself around πŸ˜‚, plus there were all the school kids getting off buses to negotiate this morning! Must leave my longer runs to the weekend in future 😁.

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Sulley101Graduate10β€’ in reply toCBDB

Thank you! I’ve been looking forward to that badge!

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I forgot to congratulate you Well done

I have been a runner for nearly 14 years now but didn’t join HU until 2018 when I did C2 5 K after an injury.

But for 9 of those years I only ran 5K didn’t even occur to me to go any further

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