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W6R3 I did It!

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After Tuesday when I found the return to hills rather difficult I really didn’t want to go out today and fully intended to repeat run 2. But I had a senior moment as I set off and forgot to select R2 so R3 podcast started to play. I decided that it was OK because I could track it on my watch. I also tried a different route, as it’s been dry for a while I went into the woods. It was lovely, I completely forgot to use my watch and had it set at heart rate which is what I always used to use on my longer runs. Before I knew it Sanjeev was telling me I’d done 12.5 minutes and I still felt great so I plodded on.

Then it was just 60 seconds to go, I even did an extra minute as Tia had a wee break about 1 minute in.

Thanks everyone for telling me to believe in myself, this felt like it used to when I regularly ran 6-10k and for the first time since losing Craig I feel I can do that again!

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Instructor57Graduate

Great !Well done 👍

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PeggySusiGraduate

Glad you have been able to get back to it successfully.. Well done, I’m sure you will get back to regular longer runs just in time for better weather and times ahead.

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Birdlady64Graduate

Fantastic! I knew you could do it! Well done 😀👏My run today was also the first time I felt I was getting back on top of things for a long while

Keep it up

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PhdgrannyGraduate

Yes, I saw that, it feels good doesn’t it?

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Me_timeGraduate

Thats fantastic! Well done !

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RoxdogGraduate

Of course you did it! Those doubts..... we all have them!

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