I kept going....

[bikergirl]

Went out today and I am very pleased to say I kept running,

I never gave up,

Started off well, good pace, good form.

started to struggle on my second lap of the field,

the third, I was ready to give up, drenched, and had drunk my whole bottle of water, legs ached, couldn't breathe, couldn't lift my legs or stand up straight.

Peeked at my phone and the map was wrong again, so not exactly sure how far I ran,

Really struggled on the 4th lap, I couldn't face the hill, so I ran back and forward along the bottom of the hill where its 'relatively flat', done 3 times, really struggled, was barley moving at times.

The week 9 podcast came to an end,

I kept going, and suddenly the mental barrier broke, just like that, like a click of the fingers,

Done 2 more back and forwards, I felt great, improved my posture lifted my legs, breathing went back to normal, increased my speed and enjoyed every minute of it. Finished on 34 minutes and 9 seconds. which if my distance is correct gives me a PB. (32 seconds improvement)

But my phone and run keeper have went completely insane,

I moved the start point on the map on runkeeper to where i actually started to get my true distance of 5.10 km .

Now Run keeper on my phone app says the first km was 7:10 and the fifth km was a 4:11 ? Surely not ? It cant have been that good.

Run keeper online however says 10:25 for the first km and 8:44 for the fifth km ??? Again surely not to this as my first km was great speed. It defiantly was the fastest.

Going to try taking the wifi with me on my next run to see If the gps signal is any better on that. Bloomin technology ! but anyway, very pleased I've managed to get past this mental block I've had.

Happy running to everyone.

[bikergirl Graduate]

Oh my god ! I just reread my blog realised I must have done around 4:11, as the podcast finished on 30 minutes and I done about a km after that and my time was 34 min and 09. oh my flippen god !

I just done a 4:11 km

omg omg omg !

[Aftabs Graduate]

Wow! You must have been burning rubber there! My fastest km is 4'28" and I'm proud of that.

[bikergirl Graduate in reply to Aftabs]

I just went to measure the distance this morning while walking the dog to check it was actually 1k I did and it came up with 0.98km so I wasn't too far off at all. Im chuffed to bits. who would have thought.

[Aftabs Graduate]

I never run less than 5km nowadays and I dont think I would get a good overall 5km time if my first km was that fast. But you have set the bar high now, so I think I will have to give it a go when I run my next 5km!

[bikergirl Graduate in reply to Aftabs]

A challenge lol I do believe it was a fluke. But I will enjoy it while it lasts. I will keep an eye out for your blog to see how much you beat me by. it would be interesting to see what our sprint times would be like ??? Something I've never ever tried. Hmm

[Aftabs Graduate]

My sprints are very poor. I raced a friend recently, he was in shoes and I was in trainers and he beat me over 50m. He never exercises and he still beat me. I still hear about that regularly...

[bikergirl Graduate in reply to Aftabs]

lol ooppss ! Some people are just lucky buggers.

Ahh but can he run for as long as you. Bet not. You could challenge him to a 10 k.

[ju-ju- Graduate]

Get you!! Fantastic fantastic.. You have done so well and a great blog too!! You have set the bar extremely high.. Best get my shoes and get training!!

Well done that girl

Xxxx