First parkrun

Did my first parking today in Shrewsbury with my two children. I felt confident to run in public because of completing the c25k and the organisers were very welcoming. My time was around 40 minutes as I was expecting, but I kept a steady pace throughout and wasn't burnt out at the end.

[LightDark Graduate]

Nice one - I am totally in love with parkrun today - well done!!!!

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Very well done. How nice to run with your children as welll !

[paul2014 Graduate]

Congratulations on running your first Park Run (the first of many?) and what a great way to mark it by running with your children. Well done

[frannyfran Graduate]

Well done. You must be so happy, especially sharing it with your children.

[Mummysaurus Graduate]

Fantastic well done and how lovely to have your kids out there running with you

[Bazza1234 Graduate]

He He -- I'd like a Dollar for every time a c25k Graduate does their first parkrun and does it in about 40 mins !! That was about the timing of my first run -- in fact I think it was 42 mins. Got it down to 33 mins now - but I don't think I will be bringing it much down from that. I am at almost puking and having a heart attack stage to get to that number

My run yesterday was 22 seconds more than my PB -- Bummer! , I thought when I got my Parkrun email. But upon reflection, that is only 4 seconds per klm difference . How hard is it to pace your running to within 4 seconds each klm you do??? Damned hard!!!!

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I'm going to try heart rate zone training this week to try and be a bit more objective. Got a really cheap watch on the eBay Argos outlet. My resting is 65 and my max sprinting as hard as I can doing intervals is 221.

[Bazza1234 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I have used my HRM quite a lot over the past 3-4 months - not necessarily to train in the various HR zones but more to be able to determine my physical exertion levels which match those different zones. To that end I have 4 zones which I can now recognise physically and don't need the HRM to tell me when I am in them . Zone 1 is EASY -- this is the conversational zone where I can freely talk while running. I recognise it by the fact that I can still breath in and out through my nose while running (more or less the same as when I am walking) .Zone 2 is MODERATE - I can no longer breath through my nose but can breath easily and rhythmically with long 4 beat breaths in and 4 beat breaths out . I believe I am still in the aerobic zone at this time. Zone 3 is HARD -- I am on the edge , maybe even entering the anaerobic zone with this and I need to breath deeply and concentrate carefully on my breathing - I am probably around 80-90% of my MHR here and I cannot do this for too long - I usually am in the final 1klm of Parkrun in this zone . ZONE 3 is VERY HARD - flat out sprinting in the final 200 metres of Parkrun , after which I have to be careful not to throw up!!! I can't stop dead after this effort and have to continue jogging/walking fast for about 5 minutes before I can regain my composure to talk

[Hidden in reply to Bazza1234]

I recognise that going to throw up feeling....first few weeks of c25k were like that for me. I am going to start doing 1 session a week where you run until you hit 75% and then walk until down to 65% etc with the idea that you keep on doing it until you can run for 20 mins within that zone and then extend it. I'll post about how I get on.

[Tracey001 Graduate]

Thanks for posting about your park run. It's great to hear of others experiences before I jump in myself and really pleased you had a good time.

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