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I decided to up the effort tonight. It’s ok running slower to get round, but at some point I figure you’ve got to give yourself a bit of a prod. Set off at a pace of 9:54/mile, which slowly creeped down by the end giving me an average of 11:25/mile. I’d passed my previous end point today before Laura even got to the one minute to go mark. Pretty happy with the feeling that when I finished I knew I had nothing left to give.

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I’ve got this run tomorrow and have been thinking of doing the same thing, so it’s good to hear someone else has survived speeding up!

(Love your username, btw!)

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YoureDoingGreatPet in reply tothegirlfrommarz

You’ll be fine, you’ve done all the preparation work and if you think you’ve set off too fast, you can always slow down a bit, that’s what my thinking was anyway 😎👍🏻

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Well done!

Are you from the northeast by any chance? 😂

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YoureDoingGreatPet in reply toTasha99

Not that far up, im in Yorkshire... the name was a homage to Sarah and a nod to her help getting me through the first 4 weeks 🙂👍🏻

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Tasha99Graduate in reply toYoureDoingGreatPet

Ah yes, she did make me laugh a few times on runs 😂

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