Early bird beats the heat

[SweatyHettie]

Woke up nice and early so I decided to get up. It felt relatively cool so I got my act together and out got at 6am. It was completely still not a breath of wind even at the beach. Set my 30 min timer as I felt guilty for only doing 25 on Monday.

I was bimbling along, crushed the pebbly bit early on to get that out the way and headed on along the prom. Silenced the naughty gremlin who told me to take a short cut as I felt ok and thought I would just see how I got on.

The upshot of it is that without really having it as a goal at the outset, I managed my second 5K run- in 36 mins which was a pleasant surprise. Once I knew I had gone on the longer route I knew that the 5K was possible if I wanted to carry on, and when the 30 mins notification came up I thought, well I’m either going to have to walk or run home so I may as well run!

Have to say the SB headband did me proud today - when I took it off it felt really heavy - and soggy urgh!- so it clearly does the job!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Good run for you this morning nice and early to beat the heat of later in the day, well done on that 36 minute 5K, tomorrow will be my second runiversery since graduating from C25K, I will be running a 10K to celebrate, again I will start nice and early to avoid the heat of later in the day.

[SweatyHettie Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Oh wow congratulations! I’m not sure I’ll ever get to 10K or even if I want to but who knows - this programme is like magic 💥✨

[Instructor57 Graduate]

Great achievement !

Sounds like you are really into the groove with your running .

These posts are certainly inspiring me !

[SweatyHettie Graduate in reply to Instructor57]

I think I have just decided that I’m not going to let all my hard work go to waste. It’s a shame the hubster had to drop out of the programme as he suffers with his back and his physio told him to stop. But my daughter and her partner have almost finished C25K so perhaps I’ll be able to run with them sometimes although I think they might be a bit (a lot) faster than me!

I don’t know about inspiring, but if I can do it anyone can!

[Instructor57 Graduate in reply to SweatyHettie]

It's inspiring from my view point ! 😁

And yes, you don't want to get this far and then go back to the couch !

I have a brother who is 5 years older than me so 68

He started running about 3 years ago .

He now runs 3 x 5K every week with a PB of 27:58

Oh, it's a shame your hubby had to stop .

But better than an injury , seems like you have a great place to run as well and will be good to do with your daughter and partner 🙂🏃🏃

To me, 30 mins still seems like as huge challenge !

The 5 minutes on week 4 run 1 were tough 😐

[SweatyHettie Graduate]

This programme will work its magic and you will be smashing those longer runs before you know it. Once you get past W5 it’s mind over matter

Enjoy!🏃‍♂️