Last night, a fortnight after graduation, I completed my first actual 5 km run. Since my current running speed is about 8.7 km per hour, I only cover about 4.35 km when Laura and I go out for our ongoing Week 9 runs. (Yes, I kept using the Week 9 podcast past graduation -- blame it on Julie!)
This is all well and good, especially since I have plans to start on the 5K+ podcasts next week, beginning with Stepping Stone and working my way up to Speed. So I have confidence that I will reach the assumed speed of 10 km per hour in the not-too-distant future. Meanwhile, I wanted to actually run 5K, so I plotted a course and ran it, going past the end of the podcast. Huzzah!
Now that I know I can actually run 5km, I would like to try out one of these park runs that everyone keeps going on about. Where are they? When are they? Who organizes them? How can I find out more? I live in Oxford, which is far from the middle of nowhere -- or even the edge of nowhere -- plus I own a car, so I am sure that there must be one nearby. All you folks in the proverbial know, can you tell me how I can learn more about these?
Thanks!