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Week Six, Run One

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Getting kinda more serious now. Made it to the end but it's never easy. Glad I did it. Warm up and walks at 6.5kph, runs at 7.5kph and slowed to 6kph for the final 5 minute cooldown at the end. Next run Thursday when I think it's the last of the interval runs. Wow 🏃

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Well done! You're doing great and they are good speeds on a treadmill :-) 6.5 km/h for a walk is certainly brisk!

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mummybowlesGraduate in reply to John_W

Thank you 😌

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SeeJillRunGraduate

Woohoo! That’s great, I can only dream of such speeds 😂xx

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mummybowlesGraduate in reply to SeeJillRun

Hi Jill thanks, how are you getting on? Xx

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SeeJillRunGraduate in reply to mummybowles

Still nursing the sciatica but it’s definitely on the mend now thanks xx

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nowsterGraduate

To translate for the rest of us with watches...

7.5km/h is 8'00"/km

6.5km/h is 9'14"/km

6.0km/h is 10'00"/km

Those walks are pretty brisk! My warm up/cool down walk is about 9'30"/km.

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mummybowlesGraduate in reply to nowster

The different ways to record runs ( pace, speed, metric, imperial ) always makes my brain ache so thanks for the above conversions 🏃

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HobblerGraduate

Well done,

Did my first week 6 run last night very soggy though😂.

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mummybowlesGraduate in reply to Hobbler

Well done. Especially in the wet. Wonder if you found it a slog? I thought I was a runner after completing 20 minutes non stop but Wk 6 Run 1 was strangely hard !

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HobblerGraduate in reply to mummybowles

This was the first time I've ran on the pavement (normally on grass in the park). The first run after the warmup was really hard but after that the rest was OK. I see the last one this week is a 25min run😲

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Tinytears60Graduate

Well done! 👏👏

I know!!! No more intervals! Trust me ... you will love that! They were our friends in the early weeks but week 6 I hated them -

This magical little plan is turning us all into runners!

Graduation is in sight for you now! 👌💕

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