First run on my lonesome

Life without Laura.

So....I put lots of nice trashy music on my little shuffle (borrowed from my son, as he keeps reminding me) strapped on a cheap casio watch with a stopwatch, I’m not going down the Irish John road and taking the kitchen timer with me and set it going to do the walkie five mins, then (shuffled) ran for 30mins, then the walkie last five.

Yes, I think Mcfitty said that dance music was good, and it was. Better than the podcast music (sorry, Laura).

I was surprised, it was good.

Will I keep it up? I don’t know, but I’ll take it one run at a time and see how I go. What have I got to lose?

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Enjoy your running with your own music and the fact it is getting cooler now

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Thanks, ooo, it's cooler today,too

[AnneDroid Graduate]

Well done you. Well done your generous son too. I borrowed my son's earphones this morning. He didn't know as I'd put them back before he'd even woken up. Then I took my daughter to school and spotted she had my earphones in, which was clearly why I couldn't find mine!

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Ha! Share and share alike, like my house. The only upside of living with teenagers

[lightweightkate Graduate]

I loved Laura but gave up on her when I met Julie on Week 8 and completed with my own music and I love it too...I use mapmyrun and that counts my 5 minute intervals so I know how long to go and therefore how far I've run and it speaks over the music so you can't miss it .....Hope you keep it up running buddy 😮 as you say why wouldn't you especially as you enjoyed that last run 🏃😀

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I like map my run...didn't know about the five minute counting. Will check it out, thanks Kate

[lightweightkate Graduate in reply to Hidden]

click on coaching and then schedule on your workout set up

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Wow, so cool all this tech, useful too.

[McFitty Graduate]

Keep on keeping on... that sounds like a great post grad run and reminds me MUST MUST put together a playlist!

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Hee, hee. I was running up this horrible hill to 'Bootilicious' and it was so funny

[OldPossum]

I love my own music too. Although technology let me down today. Earphones disconnected just as I finished my warm up walk 😁😁. It's amazing how the right music can spur you on though. I may start investigating beats per minute soon but I'm just enjoying doing my own thing at the moment 😀

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Yes, that's a good thing to do. I'm not sure of the beats per min malarkey, I think I would still stagger along to my own pace whatever I listened to

[OldPossum in reply to Hidden]

Me too 😀 But the music keeps me going - just please no more Julie ever 😂😂

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I just got that!! That Julie was driving me loopy