I was ready for this run today, in fact I was ready for it yesterday. Legs had recovered nicely over my two day break so I felt I was ready to give them a workout again....
6C here in Prestbury this morning and I knew I'd need a layer starting off. But there's something about these cool, fresh mornings that I just love!
Did a good warm up and off I went.
Spotted a walker in front of me and I thought okay, I'll overtake him and show him who's boss.
Fat chance of that!!!
He managed to stay in front of me for a whole mile and a half which seriously got my goat!! 🤬
I couid feel his smile even though I was behind him. His cheesy grin spread into his back and was jeering at me the whole time.
Much as I tried to grab that smile off his back I couldn't. He even turned round a couple of times and smiled some more!!!
Fortunately he went off down another track and I was able to enter the racecourse fields and regain my composure. Only I didn't. I think I was still quite miffed but it did spur me on and I did manage to overtake some other walkers.
Never did clap eyes on the Bolt Wannabe walker again but I did end up having a cracking run as a result!
The furthest I've done distance wise is 2.78m and today I managed the full 3 miles so I'm happy with that. I don't think it's quite 5km but it's close enough.
Time for a nice coffee and some breakfast and gratitude for a good start to the week.
Thinking of you all this morning wherever you are in the country. Wrap up warm, find your inner warrior and go smash those runs.
Well done Burkey, just think how far you have come.
I think I read that only 10% of graduates reach 5k in week 9. I have just finished week 8 at 3.6k so will not reach 5k, however I feel so much fitter and can run without stopping to catch my breath.
Your pace is great and better than what I achieve on most runs. Regardless of pace, you should be very pleased that you managed to run 12 minutes longer than you needed to and you've still got 2 more runs to go. My final run was awful and I struggled to do 30 minutes compared to the previous 2 runs.
Very well done. When you planning on finishing it?!
I used to live in Poynton and I remember I nice little pub in Prestbury village i used to go to for a meal in the evening (can't remember it's name though ) 😁
Haha, the walker made me laugh , I bet you were glaring at him 😂
Brilliant! Only 2 more to go. On one of my Week 8 runs I had a dad with a pushchair run past me. Made me smile to myself! You’re not far off 5K which is great!
Yes, you have so much going on and I really hope some fantastic job opportunity comes along for you 🙏 For me, I needed this as much as giving me something to really focus on as anything else, and it’s certainly done that. For you too 😊 but for different reasons.
You sound so much stronger, determined and self confident than you did 9 weeks ago... amazing what this programme has helped us all with, in so many unexpected ways.
You will complete the programme, and very soon 😅 can’t wait 😁 xx
Well done Carli, keep up and you'll get to 5km sooner or later. The important thing is that you are running for 30minutes. The other guy was only walking, too easy !!!!
Haha he really did annoy me! I swear he speeded up on purpose. I really really wanted to overtake him but I knew if I pushed it too hard I'd never finish and use up all my puff!
I really hope, when you’re super speedy in a few months time, you will spot him again, whizz passed and then stand in front of him and do Bolt’s victory ‘dab’ pose! (Did I spell that right? Is it an emoji yet? I’m not down with the kids enough to know) 😁
It made me smile reading about the Walker! I’ve been in a similar situation on quite a few occasions where I don’t catch up with a Walker or that it takes so long to overtake walkers!!
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Power walkers beware: here comes the 5Ker 😤
W9R1 - can't quite believe it!
W9R1- with a little procrastination on the side 
W9R1, great run, do ducks practise Pilates?
