I have a steely determination this morning as I set out for my run. Today’s the day. Warm up walk done, music 🎧 🎵 on. I didn’t even care what it was.
Slow and steady. 1st km - out of the village. I glance at the pace. 8:30, yes, that’s reasonable, not too fast. Feeling great! No grass on this route - it slows me down. I head to the Deadend Track (see pic) popular with runners for interval work. 2nd and 3rd km. I glance at my watch; it’s difficult to keep a consistent, reasonable pace. I check the heart rate zones and find I must have messed with the settings as I’m continually running in the red zone! Doh!
I come out of the Deadend Track and back onto the main road. 4K. I would normally be ending my run, but no! Push on, stop looking at your watch. This last km is never ending! I arrive back in the village. Turn down a side street just to add some distance. 4.8 km - nearly there!
Made it!! Can’t quite believe it but I have! I run on for a few seconds, just in case. I stop the watch and put my hands on my hips, a sure sign I am exhausted. And is that rain on my neck? Nope, it’s sweat! This run actually had me sweating! Hope no-one sees me, my new, short haircut must be ruined 😂. I walk briskly home and look at myself in the mirror expecting to see a red faced, sweating wreck, but I sigh with relief. Just as gorgeous as ever! And I’ve just run 5K!
Thanks to my forum ‘buddies’ who encouraged me to do this! I probably wouldn’t have attempted this for another few weeks as I didn’t think I was ready. Turns out I was!
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Thanks! It was your comment yesterday about long, slow runs and shorter, faster runs that got me thinking. I slept on it and knew as soon as I woke up that I was going to try. You’re right, I’ve done it once so I can do it again, (not this week, though 😂.)
I’m notified by email about your posts on this forum, because I follow you. I just dropped into the other one, to have a look and saw the posts in there. I don’t think I was notified about your posts in that forum.
Yes, that’s right. I wasn’t notified of your posts there. I’m also only notified of the threads that people I follow actually start (on the Couch to 5K forum) or their responses to a thread of mine, not their comments on other threads. That’s how it usually works.
Ah OK. Reason I'm asking is I'm trying something tomorrow with my Consolidation 5 post and need to check with a follower what they get notified about. May I ask you tomorrow??😁
Your support certainly helped me to decide to go for it! It was right do it today. I’d kept my previous 4 runs just over 30 minutes and thought it was the right time to extend that further.
I will! 😀 I just decided to go for it! I tried not to push myself too hard with the pace, it was really the last half kilometre that was tough and I wasn’t about to give up then!
Good luck! 🤞 On my first consolidation run, I looked at my watch after 30 minutes and saw that 4K was within my grasp! I had to run an extra 3 minutes or so and those 3 minutes were really tough but I did it. I’ve always been one of the slower runners on here, but it’s a balance of determination and trying not to overdo it! 😊
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Sounds like you had to work quite hard to achieve that, glad the determination paid off. 
Consolidation run 5 - finally hit the 5k
Consolidation run 5 - Urgh!
Consolidation 16: My second 5K 😃😃😃
