If you've been unlucky enough to read any of my previous blogs, you'll know that I was toying with the idea of jumping ahead a week or two. The last two runs, nominally W6R3 and W7R1 I had run 30 mins straight without stopping so skipped ahead to W9R1 given that I had covered that time twice already.
I did that today on the treadmill. I think I hit a "bad run" last time and was grateful to get to the 30 minutes. This time. not so much.
It's a bit odd to describe really. It seems like the first 10 minutes were really casual and not the usual negative "I can't do this" thoughts that had been in my head before.
Once I got to 20 mins, I was toying with the idea of running a bit extra past the 30, in preparation for trying to run 5k without stopping.
Once I had got to 35 mins without stopping, I wanted to get to 5k!
Once I had got that, I sensed that 45 minutes was within reach.
Even after I passed that, the treadmill clock was already approaching an hour. I had never ever run that long since I was about 13 (I used to be able to run 5 miles in 48 minutes) and decided to just keep going and going.
In the end I ran for 60 minutes and covered 7.5k! So so so happy about that and amazed in all honesty. 
Given that my target is the Sheffield Half Marathon in 12 weeks today, I am going to start my new training programme as of next week, which is this:
bupa.co.uk/running/training...
Not entirely sure I can do 5k in 40 mins just yet (I think I might be just outside) but a few tempo runs in the next couple of weeks will sort that out.
All in all, rather happy. 
Am I a Graduate ?
what's your running bucket list?
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Am I running too fast??
Graduation!!!!!
