What a surprise that was😃😃😃

[Scruff55]

Wasn’t expecting to run my second fastest run ever today. I haven’t been using Strava since I restarted C25k but thought now I’ve reached W7 I would. Am going away for few days tomorrow so thought I’d get my second run of week 7 done before I go. Set of after 5 minute warm up and it felt good. Then I just ran didn’t think I was going fast just a nice steady pace finally finished and stopped Strava as soon as I finished running before the cool down walk. And then after shower coffee and banana I looked at the Strava numbers and was very pleasantly surprised. I’m still slow compared to the gazelles on here but it was my second fastest run over 25 minutes. So I’m very pleased that I’ve not lost too much fitness over the past few months of inactivity 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

That is just super...we do surprise ourselves sometimes don't we... you have done so well !

[Scruff55 Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

I can’t believe I’m back out running for 30 minutes with no pain it’s amazing. I’m so lucky and blessed. 🤞I can carry on. 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

That's great, I think there's probably a theory that if you do it for a second time you have the memory of running plus you won't have lost all fitness, I ran with a friend while she built up from scratch and was faster second time for me, although being younger she could keep going longer than me in the end

[Scruff55 Graduate in reply to SueAppleRun]

Yes I’m 4 years older now that when I first did C25k so wasn’t expecting to run it faster. But I’ll take it. 🤣🤣🤣

[SueAppleRun Graduate in reply to Scruff55]

I love wh n I can run that bit faster

[Scruff55 Graduate in reply to SueAppleRun]

Yes it feels good 👍

[OldManRunning Graduate]

Well done Scruff55 going well 😁