Love Shack babyyy! Week 8 Run 1

[Runforurlife]

Week 8 and it's back to the 80's for me and what a great playlist this morning that got me round with the B52's, Teardrop Explodes, Phil Collins, RunDMC, Yazoo, Bronski Beat and Toni Basil. Out the door for sunrise at 7.28am, when Jo said 'welcome to week 8, you'll be running 28 minutes today' I thought, errr... So I got my gameface on and took in my surroundings on the 5 min brisk walk, what a lovely autumn morning, I CAN DO THIS!

And I did.. whoo hoo. Did I really run 28mins straight?? And enjoy it?? Took a new route, mixed it up a bit, and just went with the flow. Managed to speed up a bit and not look like I was dying on the spot in the last 5mins! I felt I could've gone on (whaat? Who have I become?!) when Jo said I'd done it. Walked home 20mins and was buzzing! Good run done. I gave myself an extra day between runs to rehab a few niggles (knee and ankle) and it seems to have helped me so much. Good luck everyone with your running today, you CAN do it!! x

[StoneDragon Graduate]

Fantastic R4UL - I think we were out running the same run at the same time this morning - I slightly struggled initially but settled into it and was buzzing at the end. Beautiful morning for a run 🌞😀 glad to read that you did so well.

[Runforurlife Graduate in reply to StoneDragon]

Well done on your run. I know that initial struggle, always good to come through it to the other side and just enjoy a run! Amazingly today, I didn't have that struggle and seemed to sail on with my 80's tunes. Think the music made all the difference today!

[nowster Graduate]

Did you also shout out the "Tin roof. Rusted!" bit in that song?

[Runforurlife Graduate in reply to nowster]

Aha!Is THAT what the lyrics are?? I think I sang 'hen row, rusty!' lol But yes, was singing all the way, even if my version of the song! Such a good tune to run to.

[Jericho2332 Graduate]

I've only just found this post! Sorry for the late reply! Only just figured out how to find the people I'm following 🤦🏼‍♂️was worried I hadn't seen you post in a while and wanted to check you were not injured!

Glad to see you've gone with 80s week 👍🏻😁 and really pleased to see you smashed it! (as expected💪🏻)

Hope all your knocks and niggles are now dealt with and good luck with the next run!

[Runforurlife Graduate]

Ah thanks!! I've been swamped with work today, only checking in on everyone's runs now. Yep, 80's week for me this week...I had a playlist on shuffle, was kind of dreading Cyndi Lauper 'girls just wanna have fun' coming on, bit like your Backstreet Boys! But thankfully it didn't make the cut. Part 2 of the 80's playlist tomorrow, am hoping for some seriously good tunes to get me going and get the pace up a little bit.

My niggles seem to be 'ok' so am hoping for a good run tomorrow. I had my kit out for a run this morning but that rain, no thanks... Tomorrow looks better and definitely NO excuse so will be out at 7.15am hopefully not needing a head torch!!!!! When is your next run?

[HappyNoodle Graduate]

Fantastic sounds like it all came together for you 😍