Please excuse me bouncing around and being excited.
So far on the 5x50 Challenge, I've run each day except for yesterday when I did my 5k on the cross trainer to give my ankles a bit of a rest.
I'd planned to attempt the local Parkrun today but so nearly didn't bother as I woke up feeling decidedly under the weather (I suspect I had Wine Flu !). It was a lovely day though so I forced myself out. I couldn't face food so just had a cup of tea and some fruit juice for brekkie.
I was still feeling a bit queasy at the start but when we set off, my friend pointed out that we had probably started too quickly so I tried to back off a bit. I can't say it was an easy run and I did have a brief walk after the second hill but I was so excited to find that, after a brief sprint at the end, I had beaten my previous time by 2 minutes 21 seconds !
I'm really surprised and very pleased - I'd always intended to just take it easy so I feel ok for a longer run with friends tomorrow morning and to allow for having had a more energetic week than usual. Clearly, the training sessions at running club have paid off.
My target is to beat 30 minutes. My last time was 34:35, todays time was 32:14 - I'd like to think I could smash the 30m target by the end of the year.
One thing that I think helped was that I wore new socks with extra achilles tendon support - I was amazed at how well they seemed to work, after literally weeks of sore and painful achilles tendons. I'll be treating myself to another pair - they're brilliant ! amazon.co.uk/1000-Mile-Wome...
I'm going to go and bounce around excitedly again now - all the way to the pub for lunch !
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Haha you most certainly deserve that pub lunch, well done you. Smashing time too, thats a heck of a lot to knock off your last PB, at this rate you'll be sub30 well within the year. I would put a bet on that you make it by end September and thats without my chrystal ball!!!!
Fantastic Hazel! That's a big time knocked off, no wonder you are bouncing around Congratulations! The socks look good; great that they helped. Loving the reference to Wine Flu too; that's one phrase I will have to use in the future : D
According to runners world a couple of months ago hungover girls did better at running the next day then sober ones! (It didn't work for boys though) I am presuming you are a girl, and therefore your PB was clearly brought on by alcohol. All off to the pub then!
There I was thinking I won't be able to Parkrun next Saturday as I may imbibe a few wines at my daughters wedding reception next Friday; and now this post makes me wonder....! Ha ha!
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