What with going away for the weekend and the stress/excitement of Jamie starting playgroup, I've slacked off with the running a little recently. I am determined to crack on with it again though now, as our 5 mile fun run is coming up in a couple of months and I want to feel comfortable running that distance and try and do a half-decent time.
I went out and did a 7K run yesterday, which was ok but I was sooo slow. Not helped by a posh woman in a range rover stopping me to ask directions to the racecourse...ahh, the joys of race week are upon us! Couldn't she see I had my Runkeeper app going?? Anyway, it was good to do a longer distance than I've ever done, just to see what it feels like mentally (as I find the mental side as challenging as the physical - just convincing myself to keep going) to keep running for almost an hour.
Today, Wayne and I went out intending to do an 8km/5mile run. I think he got a bit overconfident though - the most he's ever done up to now is 5k and I reckon he thought those extra 3k would be no problem at all. After a while he asked how far we'd gone (the lovely lady on the Runkeeper app tells me every 0.5km), and was shocked to find we'd only done 3.5k. He quickly revised his target distance to 5K, so we completed that in a time way off my PB.
I now have the beginnings of a cold (thanks, kids!), so I'm not sure when I'll get out again, but I need to keep the momentum going and not leave it so long this time.
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