A whole hour! Bridge2 10k w6r1

[RainbowC]

Well, after Monday's fab run, I was expecting last night to be a little bit harder - and it was! A whole 60 mins of running, with no walking at all. It's times like this I'm glad I'm so stubborn, cos that's the only thing that got me through it all... Up to 30 mins I was telling myself 'you know you can do this - you've done it before!' - and after that it was counting down each 5 minutes to the end. Around 45 mins though, suddenly everything felt easy and comfortable, to my surprise. Sadly that didn't last more than a few minutes, and the last 10 mins were hard work - although I still managed to speed up a bit for the last minute or two.

Right now I'm *so* proud of myself for getting this far - and when Mr Rainbow did the conversion from miles to km and pointed out that I'm only at 75% of the distance I need to get to, I didn't let that burst my bubble. Instead, I decided to rejoice in the fact that I'd run a whopping great 7.5km!!! That's my longest ever continuous run, and I'm very chuffed indeed!

[Tomas Graduate]

Sod Mr Rainbow's conversions (at least for today). You have run a whole hour without stopping to walk, and that is an amazing achievement! Huge congratulations!!

[ViaM Graduate]

It feels fab, doesn't it? I mean, achieving the task, not so much the running bit

[RainbowC Graduate in reply to ViaM]

lol, absolutely! I'm quite impressed that my legs feel fine today. I mean, I'm not about to go running up lots of flights of stairs for fun, but clearly the plan has worked so far...

[Peter_B Graduate]

Well done

That's the next one for me. I did W5R3 this morning and managed 8km over the 2 runs.

[RainbowC Graduate in reply to Peter_B]

Well done! I'd love to be a bit quicker than I am, but figure I just need to keep going at the steady pace that I can manage for now. Speed can come later - if I decide to keep running 10k after the race which is looming ominously close now!

[ActonHighStreet]

Well done - and you're right, training for speed (intervals &c) can come later. Enjoy building up the distance and enjoy running.