Not posted for awhile . Seem to have been busy fitting everything in.
After weeks of putting off the 10k app I started it Monday it's the zen app she doesn't say much apart from 5minute walk warm up, run, walk , run ,warm down with 5min walk .
Day 2today planned a different route and off I went no gremlins this morning . It was 6.30 am and cool , my new route took me along tree lined roads . And beautiful houses up hills and down,across a motor way and underneath it . Through an underpass , then back into the town . My mind goes through a myriad of things along the way none to do with running , and I got into a good rhythm , my thought were interrupted by the American voice .walk. So I did but not for long just enough to have a break,then the voice Run so off I went feeling oh so good , then the hill I was going up, oh so slow but I was still going , almost to the top wishing I could hear her say walk but she didn't so I thought I'm gonna walk for a bit , got to the top which wasn't that far, then she said walk, I'm sure I said it out loud been there done that, but no one about to hear me anyway, and on I went got to the part where I should of turned left to make it 6k and thought I really don't want to stop so I didn't . My route change added another hill and carried on. the fit bit app goes at the same time as the zen 10k one so I can see my splits and map And it said 6k so I thought I'm going to keep going and on I went I had the voice say warm down , but I thought later , before I knew it I was almost at the 8k mark so on checking the app completed the8 then dutifully did my walking warm down. It felt fantastic, and I feel I'm on my way to completing the 10 by the end of the month . At the end of sept I'm running (hark at me running) a 10 k women only event at Windsor , so from fear and trepidation I feel I may be confident enough to do it, hope this is not too boring a post, but my friends think I'm mad at my age to start jogging ! Let alone enter events.
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Well done. My family think I am mad jogging - say I'm far to old, but proved them wrong completing C25K, maybe one day I will make the full 5K don't think I will ever aim for 10K but sounds like you are really on track so well done, and good luck!!
Actually I think on a previous post earlier this year I wrote the same thing. I had no desire to do 10 as I was finding park run a bit of a trial at the time . But I had a shall I shan't I moment and went ahead and booked the 10 k it helped that it's at Windsor castle I have given myself 7 weeks to prepare .
Careful! When I was doing c25k I said I would never do 10k. I then did 10k saying I would never go further. I then did a half marathon and said never again (next one is in two weeks) and now I am wondering about either the full marathon or super sprint triathlon.....it's a slippery slope!
Yes at the moment I'm sort of firmly at the point of thinking a marathon will be beyond me . Let me get to 10k first then I'll take a rain check . Good luck with the half in two weeks, I read somewhere if you think you can or you think you can't your probably right,
You will smash that 10k at the end of September eve, if you are already hitting 8km. As for your friends, my guess is they are a little bit in awe and jealous!🙂 Good luck!
Hi can I just ask as you go out so early for your run what do you eat if anything ? I don't go out quite as early as you but find eating a real problem,as if I eat then I deel sluggish but as my runs are getting longer I run out of steam if I don't have something.
I usually run after 7am but woke early and I just wanted to get up and run Monday's it's 10.30 after a yoga class . I usually have fruit if there's any left like a banana or orange or just a green tea if no fruit eat when I get back . Before park run I have toast with peanut butter and marmite don't get home till 10.30 . But usually I don't have anything apart from water or tea, bearing in mind this suits me . And I'm not suggesting anyone else should do it, also I only started January this year so my knowledge is only beginner . When I did an evening run I ate light through the day and nothing apart from water before the run ,
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