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Hi all

Blimey that was hard work this morning!

Set off and for the first 5 or so mins my legs were just telling me to **** off and go home lol

Spurred on by Freddie shouting don't stop me now - pushed on and seemed to settle.

Note to self need to get one of those things to put my phone in as dog walkers don't half find it funny that I have ridiculously loud music pumping out my bosom as bra is only place to put it and rock music was never meant to be played anything but loudly๐Ÿ˜‚

Anyhow was great to be back in the outdoors by the sea - I never tire of that view and managed to cover 3km in the 30 min run section - which I'm happy with - it's not fast but who cares -maybe when I've shifted the rest of this weight I can be usain bolt - but for now I'll stick to being Bernie the bolt (not sure how many of you are old enough to remember that๐Ÿ˜Š)

Happy running xx

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๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ Bernie the Bolt! I remember him ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜€

Great going Bandit! Kudos for the phone down the bra thing! That made me chuckle!! ๐Ÿ˜…

Youโ€™re soooooo close to graduating now. Bubbles are on ice and your space on the podium is being prepared. Youโ€™ve got this you know! Youโ€™re going to smash the final two runs! Come on Bandit, weโ€™re here cheering you on to the finish line! ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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Bandit14Graduateโ€ข in reply tocheekychipmunks

Thanks - I have amazed myself to be honest - never ever did I think I would get here. It's almost a little surreal - like I'm going to wake up - then I realise I'm sat here purple in the face - feeling a laal bit hot and oh yeah I did that๐Ÿ˜

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cheekychipmunksGraduateโ€ข in reply toBandit14

You sure as heck did! Bet youโ€™ll be on a high all day! Well deserved too! ๐Ÿ™Œ

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Languid_LilGraduate

Yay Bandit! Whoop Whoop!

Re phone down bra, I used to do this too (but with headphones) but I now have a waist pack & Bluetooth earphones which I highly recommend. Wasn't sure Sports Direct would have a waist bag with a strap long enough to go round my size 20 waist but yay! It does, just about.

I also remember Bernie the Bolt - I used to love The Golden Shot.

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Bandit14Graduateโ€ข in reply toLanguid_Lil

Thanks - I can't do head/ear phones ( not sure why but having things in or round my ears freaks me out) - so if you're on the seafront n I'm running you just get to listen to my tunes lol

Def will look into the waist bag though - thanks for the tip xx

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Yay! You know you can do the 30 minutes now, so relax and enjoy those last 2 runs. The dog walkers and the musical bra ๐Ÿ˜‚ Good luck with the next run!

I remember Bernie the bolt. But mostly I remember Anne Aston ๐Ÿ˜

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Bandit14Graduateโ€ข in reply totelford_mike

Thanks - im really gonna do this - its a proper scary thought๐Ÿ˜

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RunnerBean17Graduate

I found the first run of week 9 hard-that extra 2 mins may have been 20 for the difference it made but you can do it and just enjoy! Love the music playing in your bra-I keep my gym locker key in the same place and reckon thatโ€™s what is actually helping me! ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜‰ Happy running too ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ

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Bandit14Graduateโ€ข in reply toRunnerBean17

Thanks - now I've done it once hopefully I can convince legs it's doable again on thurs๐Ÿ˜

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RunnerBean17Graduateโ€ข in reply toBandit14

You can do it- I did just 4k on my W9R3 after thinking my legs were like jelly on W9R1....just kept thinking that I've not come all of this way to give up right at the end- you go for it!

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MatildasPbGraduate

Up a bit, down a bit, left a bit, fire!

Hoping to graduate this week too just one run to go.

As Iโ€™ve said elsewhere, we can โ€˜virtuallyโ€™ graduate together.

๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ†๐Ÿฅ‚

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Bandit14Graduateโ€ข in reply toMatildasPb

Yay - go us๐Ÿ˜Š

I'm sure there will be happy tears on Sat for me as my r3 is at parkrun. Nothing like the support of loads of people to reduce me to a blubbering wreck lol

Good luck and massive well done for becoming a runner x

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MatildasPbGraduateโ€ข in reply toBandit14

Yey!!

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