Consolidation 12 - Soaking 5km

[Kish247]

When going to bed at 9:30 last night (I'm cool), I decided to set my alarm for before 5am in order to go out for a run and be back before anyone woke up.

After getting up before my alarm went off, I was it the door by 5:15am with another 5km Nike Guided run playing in my headphone and this time with some music rather than a podcast.

I've got my motivation back now!!

The announcement comes that I'm halfway through and bam, the heavens opened and within 5 minutes I was drenched. In to 3.5km and I was on a stretch of pavement that was slippery as hell so had to make do for a bit while being careful until I got a quiet stretch so I could run on the road for a bit.

Finished the run slightly slower than my previous pace but as the coach on this app says, there is more to a run than the pace and distance, there is also a story and this one is that I got drenched and ran before sunrise 🌃 🌧 🏃‍♂️

The rubbish picture is just before I got home

[ThisGirlNowRuns Graduate]

Wow that's early, well done! Love Coach Bennett's little sayings, getting soaked is all part of your running story

[Kish247 Graduate in reply to ThisGirlNowRuns]

Coach Bennett, that's the name! I completely forget when writing this post. Have you heard him going on about the Chocolate Milk challenge? It made me laugh in my final 1km of a 5km which was a nice change ha

[ThisGirlNowRuns Graduate in reply to Kish247]

Not heard the Chocolate Milk challenge, will def put on the 5K guided run next time out and listen for it (anything that makes us laugh during a run can only be good :-)!

[Kish247 Graduate in reply to ThisGirlNowRuns]

And there are a few of 5k guided runs, all called something slightly different;

> Today's 5k run

> Another 5k run

> 5k Head Starts

> 5k Run

[ThisGirlNowRuns Graduate in reply to Kish247]

So which one mentions Chocolate Milk (just out of interest of course

[Kish247 Graduate in reply to ThisGirlNowRuns]

It was in the Another 5k Run one . Enjoy!

[Hidden]

'Slippery When Wet' - Bon Jovi 😁

Well done Kish. I actually prefer rainy runs, I feel like more of a warrior because it's more challenging.

[Kish247 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

haha, that pretty much summed me up this morning! x

I think we are all going to need to get used to it. Typical that there are clear skies now! I need to get some more of the local newspaper to stuff in my shoes and they aren't the best to run in when it's wet.