Comrades! I don't know if it was all your lovely supportive posts earlier today, or the fear / excitement motivator of possibly joining a proper running club, but I totally found my running mojo today. I cracked the 20 min barrier. I also cracked 25 mins while I was at it. I believe my run took me somewhere in the vicinity of 28 mins without stopping.
WHOOOOOP!!!
As you can tell, I am much pleased by this result, nay, I would even say smugly satisfied. I made a route I'd done before new by doing it in reverse (which made for a rather unpleasant 5 mins or so running solidly up hill in the middle, but hey-ho), paced myself, distracted myself with continuous stream-of-consciousness mental dialogue and just kept chugging along.
The only depressing this is that when I got back and checked on my route mapping software, I'd still only covered 3.5km in the time, which is an abysmally slow pace, but know what? I won't be disappointed! One thing at a time. Endurance first, and then when I've got to a reasonable level of that, I'll work on the speed issue. For now I'm just happy. And starving!!!! Must go eat before my stomach digests itself!!
4 comments:
That is fantastic! Well done you - who cares about the speed at this stage, that can come later. Remember, snails overtake me on my runs, lol.
And thanks to you, I have found a local running club that uses indoor running tracks in the winter and runs a lot in my area. Not sure about joining yet, but just knowing they are there is a revelation!
Keep up the great running - you can do it!
stick at it! don't worry about the distance, particularly as you're running up hill too
you rock... so motivational!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!
Get IN!!! xxxx
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