After graduating ten days ago with a 5K run I did another a couple of days later mainly to convince myself that it wasn’t a fluke. I managed it OK even though I missed Laura’s encouraging words. Then I caught the first cold I’ve had for years and felt like crap. Today was the first time I’ve run for over a week and I was going to take it easy and do about 4K. However, I knew part-way into my third lap of the park that I would do a fourth and complete a 5K again. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I hadn’t lost as much condition as I had feared.
It seems I’m stuck with doing 5K runs now and I’m glad because it would have been quite easy to take my foot off the gas and coast a bit. Graduating was such a high I was worried that it might be a bit of an anti-climax now that I don’t have a target. (I don’t intend to do a 10K although… no!). I realise now that I DO have a target and that’s to do a 5K every time.
Good job ! Don’t feel stuck though. You can also run less distance but focus more on specifics, such as posture or breathing. Or you can run a bit further, or a bit faster. No need to get bored 😄
Thanks for your reply. I'm quite happy about being stuck at 5K. Perhaps I chose the wrong word; I was trying to convey the feeling of oh-cripes-I've-gone-and-lumbered-myself kind of thing and there's no going back etc. You're quite right though, there are always challenges and I shan't get bored!
Excellent ! Keep us posted. Interested to know where it all goes next 😀