Week 7 Run 1 - Big Tick !

[RichardJH]

Ran W7R1 early this morning - took Laura's advice and tried a different route. I mapped out a 5.5km route a short while back (its a badly drawn figure of 8 !) thinking ahead to graduation - with the advice in mind I did my brisk walk and got partly up the first hill before "your 5 minutes are now up" which is my queue to start running ...

5 minutes in all good settled down after the usual slowish start the hill is behind me now and I'm making great progress on the flat - Laura calls out half time and I'm still going fine ....then back down the hill (that was the big big loop of the lopsided figure of 8 done) , a brief respite on the flat then up another much smaller but steeper hill ... then another slope to get up ... when the 60 seconds to go call came ... sadly I couldn't manage to speed up for that last minute this time round and so as the ground flattened out for the last time I started my 5 minute cool down ...

Do it again in two days time

And with this done ... 5k in 30 minutes is really on the cards

Excellent !

Good luck if you are running today whatever stage you are doing and hope you enjoy it as much as I did !

[_SimonT_ Graduate]

Fantastic Richard!

Well done and for being on 5K pace!

I have W7R2 tonight. I hope I can be as positive as you! 😀

[RichardJH Graduate in reply to _SimonT_]

Hi Simon

Very best of luck with run 2 - I'm sure it will go well, and you've got two 25 minute runs behind you - one more after this one !

Once again - very best of luck