Today was my hardest run.
As a bit of background, I am fairly heavy chap, and I have found that I've needed to build in extra rest days to properly recover. My goal was to graduate before my birthday on the 5th August, however, because of the extra rest days I resigned myself to missing the target; that was until my competitiveness kicked in! My last run was Tuesday, meaning I could finish W8 today, and get out on W9 on Sat, Mon and Wed...... well that is what I am going to try to do.....
So today I quickly felt tired and my legs felt heavy - I nearly gave up at 5 minutes, by 10 minutes I had convinced myself I had no chance of making the whole 28 minutes. At the turnaround I walked for about 10 seconds before kicking myself up the backside to get going again. At about 21-22 minutes a cyclist came past, looked over his shoulder and shouted "keep going fella, you are doing awesome" - this random act of encouragement was exactly what I needed, and I started thinking about how far I have come, and how close I am getting to graduation. Before I knew it, the 28 mins was up and I'd done it. In fact I reckon I could have kept going, which is exactly what I'll need to do on Saturday!
Sorry for my ramblings! It helps me to put things into perspective when I write them down!
See you at the finish line.