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Sunday Bragging Thread

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Hi All

I know some of us on here are a lot shyer than others about talking about our running achievements but it always good to have a place for some showing off - if only to encourage people struggling with C25k that anyone can do it and anyone can enjoy running.

If I may start, yesterday I got a parkrun PB and this morning I did this: mapmyrun.com/workout/100789... TWENTY FLIPPING MILES! Without wishing to sound pervy, I'm not sure it's possible to be in any more pain and be any more pleased with oneself.

Please feel free to add your own boasts underneath, I genuinely looking forward to hearing them.

All the best and keep enjoying our wonderful sport,

AHSx

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Pip66Graduate

Great post Acton! I am not quite at your level yet. First run of week 8 today and it was hard work!! Getting home my Garmin tells me I ran 4.2km in those 28 minutes (never ever thought I would do that). Also my fastest mile so far - 10.34. So that is me ......

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ActonHighStreet in reply to Pip66

4.2 in 28 minutes is great - you're on course for graduating in style!

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hopelessCause

I did W1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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ActonHighStreet in reply to hopelessCause

Nothing tops that!

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poppypugGraduate

Wow , amazing !

Well done AHS, thats some serious mileage on the legs there

Fab ! :-) xxx

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ActonHighStreet

Thank you!

I didn't run !! sunday has never been a running day for me , other commitments .. maybe once I am back to running 5k I will add in a sunday run because I can :D

great work everyone who has run today :D :D

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hopelessCause

You know - one of the things i hope i can benefit from if i ever become a proper runner is that I can get places quicker and between buses! 20 miles!!!!! You can just RUN 20 miles?????

Insane. :)

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ActonHighStreet

Insane and starting to hurt! Still over the moon, of course...

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the_tea_fairyGraduate in reply to ActonHighStreet

Just you wait, lad! I am now unable to decend the stairs on my feet and am instead having to shuffle on my bum like a toddler. Damn DOMS

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ActonHighStreet in reply to the_tea_fairy

Ouch! I've got to go out later - it's quiz night.

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the_tea_fairyGraduate in reply to ActonHighStreet

You'll be grand, I think it's the hills rather than the distance that have done me in.

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Dunder2004Graduate

Nothing to brag about per se but I did a 5k interval session after doing the same thing, and not enjoying it one bit, on the same route last Sunday.

The weather has been very changeable today and it tonked it down for about 5 minutes - which was great. It was much better than last week's experience in every way.

Inspired by TeaFairy, I have a pot of beef stew on the go!

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ActonHighStreet

I think going out and doing a set of intervals you disliked last time and enjoying them is definitely something to brag about.

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goonkeepgoingGraduate

Brag alert: for the first time in ages I didn't feel like going for a run today but I got the gear on and dragged myself out (8k in 48:26) chuffed :) :) :)

I can't imagine running 20k let alone 20 miles!!!!!! It must be those 9 stone super long legs of yours :)

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ActonHighStreet in reply to goonkeepgoing

:) It's always to good get out isn't it? However much you might not want to.

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ju-ju-Graduate

wow, thats fantastic, well done you.......my boast...that I have managed to keep this running thing going for 2 years 4 months....who would have thought!!!

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Prune

20 miles is seriously epic, I'm in awe! Amazing.

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ActonHighStreet in reply to Prune

It's only C25k plus 10% every week for a few months but thank you.

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misswobbleGraduate

Me too TF!!!! Not run for four days and I feel my running career has imploded. It was the downhill that did the damage. Drat and double drat. Take note Acton!!!Don't run downhill hell for leather.

Well done ActionMan!!!!! Brag all you like cos you earned bragging rights. Have a rest now though petal. Enjoy your quiz. What sorta quiz. You can come back here and ask us some. LOL

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ActonHighStreet in reply to misswobble

Hi MissW, I won't bore you all with tonight's quiz (it was my turn to set the questions) but I'm quite pleased I can still walk up and down stairs!

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RealfoodieclubGraduate

Great post no running this week but first day back at the grind of work today after a kidney infection, Catered a meal for 24, two courses. Can not wait to get out running next week. I miss it. 20 miles that is epic well done and shout all you want you definitely deserve it.

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ActonHighStreet in reply to Realfoodieclub

I should have run towards wherever you were, I could quite happily have eaten 24 dinners!

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RealfoodieclubGraduate in reply to ActonHighStreet

After 20 miles I bet the sticky toffee pudding with fresh cream and butterscotch sauce, all homemade would of gone down a treat. 😀

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rmnsukGraduate

20 miles is awesome. Which marathon are you going for?

I did my first run outside on Thursday, WITH DOGS (I'm a little phobic), 3 laps of the local lake. Saturday I did a Parkrun, fastish, but didn't get a PB. Then today I just had to get out there and run. 4.5 laps of the lake - 10k in 1:09:01.

Bit achy, but I felt like I could run forever. I know I've only done two 10ks, which I didn't think I'd ever be able to do, How difficult is it to go from 10k to a half marathon?

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ActonHighStreet in reply to rmnsuk

Hi rmnsuk, well done for getting out there and enjoying some running. I wouldn't say it's difficult or easy to go from 10k to 13.1 miles, it's just a question of increasing your mileage by no more than the obligatory 10% a week and keeping on enjoying it.

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poppypugGraduate

My boast is that if my bum gets any more perkier, I will be wearing it across my shoulders haha :-D

Joke :-) xxx

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Peter_BGraduate

Bit late to the party but this past weekend I knocked 21 seconds off of my previous parkrun PB.

Now down to 34:36, almost 4 minutes faster than my first ever parkrun (have now done 11).

And last week I ran 10K for the first time.

Still a way to go before the dizzying heights of 20 miles (don't quite know how I'd find time in a day to do that sort of distance anyway lol)

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ActonHighStreet in reply to Peter_B

Four minutes over only 11 runs is definitely worth a quick brag.

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