Week 8 run 3 ✅

[MartinKH]

Just been following in Joanney69’s footsteps in more ways than one, and have completed the above run.

I didn’t have the best of starts, my comedy podcast with a stand up routine by Eddie Izzard somehow stopped within a minute of starting to run. That meant that I was fiddling around with both hands trying in vain to get that podcast back for the first minute

Instead of running the remaining 27 mins in silence I switched to a football ⚽️ podcast, then put my phone away thankfully.

One (of many things) I’m not good at running wise is pacing myself. So today I deliberately set off a little slower than usual, and I’m glad I did because today felt like an overall better run today compared to the last one or two.

Half way around, Michael is telling me it’s about distance not speed ( and there’s me cheekily thinking 🤔 yes but the faster I go the more distance I’ll cover....but who am I to question the great Michael ).

The last part of my run today was uphill a bit, so I know I slowed down...but I keep going ....probably at the speed of a galloping tortoise ....but I kept going.

At the end I felt I could go on for another while, perhaps because I didn’t set off to quickly.

Glad to get this run done, and can’t believe that I’m at the end of week 8 already.

PS — when I said I was following Joanney69s footsteps in more ways than one, 10 mins in to the run today I really felt an urge to go to the loo. I’m not going in to anymore detail than that, just to say I was glad to get home 🏠 phew 😅

Happy running all 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️👍💪

[Buddy34 Graduate]

Great you've now completed wk8. Do you think someone can make us a pop up toilet for us runners🤣🤣

[MartinKH Graduate in reply to Buddy34]

Hehe, that would be nice 🤣

[Joanney69 Graduate]

😂

From one galloping tortoise 🐢 to another, well done 😊 👏

I had a similar thought yesterday when Michael said it's about distance - but I let it go!

Your splits look good - but mine are in miles, so I can't compare them (probably shouldn't, we're all running our own journey!) but you are getting closer to 5k ☺

Sorry about the toilet thing, it's all experience 😂 🤣

[MartinKH Graduate in reply to Joanney69]

Thanks very much Joanney.

I’m trying not to get too bothered about times at the moment, as I know it’s about keeping running at the mo and building up stamina.

You’re right , building up the km’s and even the toilet 🚾 thing are all good experience 🏃‍♂️🚽🤣🤣

Happy running 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️

[Joanney69 Graduate in reply to MartinKH]

Some things are best experienced only once 😂 🤣

[Wenderwoo Graduate]

Well done! I had the same thought about the “it’s about distance, not speed” comment - the faster you go the further you go, surely....

Glad you got home in time 😂👍😁

[MartinKH Graduate in reply to Wenderwoo]

Thank you very much Wenderwoo 🙏

Good luck with your graduation 🎓 run.

Look forward to hearing how you get on.

👍👍👍👍🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️💪