After 25 consolidation runs I finally managed a beauty of a 5k run. As I am excellent at slow-running 🐢, I also managed to hit the 60min run target! ⏰ And if that wasn’t enough, Runkeeper also gave me a personal best in largest elevation! ⛰
I might be ultra-slow, but boy was the run a beauty! I revisited my old route, had measured (thanks to Footpath app) 5k as looping my old C25k route twice, and then adding a different loop that I call the dog walk (as popular with dog walkers). 🐕 🚶♂️
I set the Runkeeper app for 2x15min Intervalls, because I wanted to psychologically give myself the flexibility of being able to chose to run on, rather than forcing me to run on.
First loop, despite running really slowly I hit the halfway bell so much further than ever before! My legs felt fantastic, so by the end of the first loop I knew I would try to smash that 5k ceiling of mine. I had twice run 60 min before, but was 600m short the first time, 300m short the next time.🤦🏽♀️
Second loop. By now I really knew all my preparations had paid off. My workouts, stretches, foam roller, all that must have contributed to my legs still feeling brilliant. No tension, rather a relaxed jogging.
My chosen music was my favourite German Band (“Ganz schön feist”), and half-way through the second loop came a song with perfect rhythm and perfect lyrics. (It’s about a monkey having been trained by scientists to learn how to drive a car, and escaping into freedom to do a road trip! I know, silly 🙃 but so funny! 🤣)
So when that song came on and I was running down my (formerly titled) hill-of-doom, I was almost dance-running to the beat!
Last loop finished (after the nettle-avoiding slalom passage) and I was onto the dog walk, again feeling really ok 👌 and being so surprised 😮 😃 by this!
From dog walk , and now anxious that I didn’t quite have 5k, I did several tiny loops in my own garden, as I in panic tried to calculate my miles in Runkeeper into km! I had forgotten to change it to metric (due to RunLEJOG).
2 tiny loops in the garden, and I thought I should stop being so silly, it’s either enough or not! 5min cool down, and when finally I went into the house to do my stretches, and hit the stop and save button, what comes up first:
A NEW PERSONAL RECORD: 5k!!!!!
I did it! 25 runs after consolidation, I managed to hit the 5k! My time is double that of any other human being I know on here, but for me, this 5k is such a big achievement!
And as long as my runs are so enjoyable, who cares how long they take!!!!
Finally 5k but...
5k - Finally!!
Have burst through 5k barrier!!!
That Elusive 5k
