Running slow?

I struggle to run slow, but it is worth remembering this for those that do:

No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping faster than those on the couch.

[50NotOut Graduate]

Going slow is the key to keeping going!

(PS - Love the username!)

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lol, glad you like it

[ViaM Graduate]

Going slow takes skill! Also, it makes the legs work hard (and perhaps harder than going fast), as I discovered yesterday, when I forced myself to do the suggested pace in my training plan!

[Gridlet Graduate]

I run slow because I can't run fast! It's so demoralising when someone overtakes you!

[50NotOut Graduate in reply to Gridlet]

I run slow so I've got a little bit in the tank to enable me to speed up a bit when I go past someone I know.

When someone overtakes me I just send out a telepathic message that says 'I'ts a marathon, not a sprint. No really, I'm just coming up to my 25 mile. So there'.

I'm not sure they actually get the message, but it amuses me and takes my mind off the pain.