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[LUHAN]

I did it. I took your advice and finally swallowed my nerves and went to a local country park to do week 7 run 1. Nobody laughed at me and I even had confidence to sit on my own and have a drink by lake afterwards. Plus it was flat!!!! No ridiculously long hills!

[DiscoRunner Graduate]

Fantastic! Those hills can wait!! Sounds like a lovely place to run x

[LUHAN Graduate in reply to DiscoRunner]

It was lovely...much more peaceful than weekends when I have been before and very smiley people. X

[Granspeed Graduate]

Excellent. A real step forward. 👏🏼👍 Flat is good, in my book, and a lake to sit by sounds perfect. Your running world is opening up before you now!🎉

[LUHAN Graduate in reply to Granspeed]

It was lovely. Hard work but lively and like you said the rest after was much nicer than just coming home x

[Hidden]

I'm still putting a parkrun off... At week 4 I was doing about 3.5k including warm up and warm down. 5k still seems so far off! My target date for park run is the first one in September - it's like another chance at new years resolutions to me, back from school days.

[LUHAN Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I havent been brave enough for park run yet either. This was a local country park with lots of older couples walking around it this morning. Xxx we will get there I'm sure xx

[notquiteretired Graduate]

well done LUHAN 😊👍

[LUHAN Graduate in reply to notquiteretired]

Thank you x

[Vintage61 Graduate]

Sounds like you’re doing fab, well done and enjoy your runs 🏃🏻‍♀️

[LUHAN Graduate in reply to Vintage61]

Thankyou. It is very definitely mind over matter. I really surprised myself and did 4k of actual running in the 25 mins x