Week 4 Run 2 - mixed thoughts

[swisstony4]

Just completed mid week run of week 4, forgot the parkrun was on and got caught up on some of my run route, marshall told me off for cutting a corner and lost some time explaining I wasn’t on the park run... km 3 affected. Lovely lady though and will be signing up later today to do my first parkrun in a couple of weeks time.

Struggled with aching muscles today from the start, did some spin at the gym last night and think I over did it. Also was starting to pant a bit towards the end of the 5min sections but just slowed down a tad and worked through it.

Managed to tag an extra 90sec onto the last 5 min run, so was happy with that.

Run 3 on Monday ... mixed feelings about week 5 but guess it has to happen eventually!!

Have a great weekend everyone ❤️

[Hidden]

Haha turns out park runs are only good if you’re on them! Well done for completing it! I don’t know whether you do this too but I find I build up speed without noticing and then I’m knackered and realise I must have been going too fast! Shame I can’t pick up on it before I’m gasping for breath 😂 have a lovely weekend

[swisstony4 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Think you hit the nail on the head there Minnow. Short of constantly looking at my watch, not sure how to fix it. I guess pacing will come with time.

[Hidden in reply to swisstony4]

I’m sure it will, once we’ve got to 5k we can start to improve pace then we won’t have the problem as we’ll be conditioned for it. Roll on those days!

[runswithdogs Graduate]

Ha! We have a couple of corners that don't usually have marshals where people cut a few meters off. Sounds like the volunteer takes their marshaling duty seriously.

Happy running.