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W5R1 harder than I hoped - but the rain stopped

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Week 5 run 1 tonight and the first 5 minute run was much harder than I hoped it would be 😕 BUT after windy rain most of the day it dried off as we went out and the sun even shone. Not looking forward to run 2 on Saturday but resolved to try my best and can always repeat run 1 if I need to!

Oh and it was my first time using Strava too 👍🏻

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Congratulations! Watch out for Strava - it can get addictive. I have had to train myself to treat it as interesting rather than a blow by blow account of my progress. That way, it doesn’t matter if my pace goes up and down - which of course it does.

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Brilliant well done. I've just started week 2.

How are you finding strata to use ?

I find it very sensitive

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Emcg51 in reply to Spartacus22

It was my first time using it, I’m not sure how accurate it is though as I was definitely not faster going uphill as it suggested! 😂

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Spartacus22Graduate in reply to Emcg51

If that's what it's saying I'd take it haha.

It kept stop staring itself on my Samsung watch so it looks like id done 30 mini runs

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