W9R2 - earliest run ever!

[Amerynthe]

As you may know, I want to graduate on Thursday, to give me a day's rest before rocking up to my first ever Park Run and surprising my brother by not wandering round at a snail's pace and coming last. Today was going to be my trickiest day as I had a meeting in London and didn't get back to the station until gone 8, so the only alternative was to get up early and go out before getting the train up there! I lay in bed thinking, 'Am I really going to do this?' for a good 15 minutes before dragging myself out of bed. I had a small hot drink, donned my running gear, and off I went - just as the rain started - but it was only a light drizzle, and it didn't last for too long.

I can't say that I enjoyed being up and out at that time but there were fewer people about/to dodge around, dog walkers were chattier, and it was a great feeling to have completed it when I really didn't think I'd be able to manage it. I don't think I'm going to make a habit of setting the alarm for 6.30 in the future though!

Enjoy the rest of the week!

[Shelley2310 Graduate]

I usually go out between 4.30 and 5.30. I really wasn’t a morning person before I started this. Now I absolutely love it. I start the day in a really good mood.

[Amerynthe Graduate in reply to Shelley2310]

I might enjoy it more when it's light in the mornings!

[Shelley2310 Graduate in reply to Amerynthe]

I’m only on w5 so most of my runs have been in the dark. 😂😂

[Jazzyd Graduate]

Well done! Hopefully I am with you graduating Thursday with a Parkrun Saturday x

[Amerynthe Graduate in reply to Jazzyd]

Great! I'll be thinking of you!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Early running is the absolute best.. any time of the year.. great start to the day..huge well done!

[ktsok Graduate]

Well done! I tried to get up early today and completely failed 😂

[Tartancat Graduate]

Well done dragging yourself out of bed and doing that run. I haven't had to run in the dark yet.

The podium is ready and waiting for you!

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All the best for tomorrow and enjoy the Parkrun on Saturday. Don’t forget your barcode and zone out a bit at the start so you don’t feel pressurised by those around you and set off too quickly, which is easily done!

[Circle_On_Legs Graduate]

Congratulations in advance of Thursday. I just graduated on Monday. I might do local park run on Saturday. However as max distance covered in W9 was 3.6k in 30 minutes I'm going to follow the C25k+ advice of 3 weeks consolidation and run max 30 minutes only on Saturday. I've got this far and don't want to risk injury.

[Amerynthe Graduate in reply to Circle_On_Legs]

Hi Circle, congrats on graduating! I'm covering around 3.4/3.5 in half an hour, so I'm either going to run for 30 minutes and walk the rest, or run 15-20, walk 5-10 and then run the rest. I'll see how I feel on the day and how many people there are to navigate round - although at my speed I won't be needing to overtake anyone! Apparently the average number of runners is 584!

[Circle_On_Legs Graduate in reply to Amerynthe]

Good luck tomorrow and for Saturday. Your plan sounds good. To keep up the consolidating I plan to do the 5 min to start the run followed by the 30 minutes running (shuffle) and then brisk walk the rest.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Great job getting up and out there... as an evening runner I find that difficult! You’re on that target now, and ready to shock your brother 😀

Enjoy that run on Thursday!

[Cherylcw Graduate]

Wow well done, wish I could drag myself out of bed early in the morning for a run. I eeked my final C25k run out to dead on 5km....took me about 35 mins so that when I then went on my 1st park run a couple of days later I knew I could do the distance. Surprised myself by running faster on the park run, think it was due to keeping up without thinking about it and did it in 30m14 which I was so pleased with. I normally run to music though and didn't take my headphones with me on the park run thinking people may chat a bit, but they didn't and it was silent and I really missed my music.

Good luck with your graduation and your park run.