5km out and back along the canal in 26:47
Only finished c25k a couple of months back so just trying to consolidate that win.
For an overweight bloke turning 50 this year, I'll take that.
As the saying goes, I overtook everyone 9n the sofa
Legs all good today!
I told you the wine would help!
told you the wine would help!
yeah legs fine. Head not so good!😝
Anything under 30 minutes for a 5k is decent. Get off road, onto more enjoyable terrain. I find trail running much more enjoyable than bashing the pavements. Better scenery, better for your legs. Even walk/jogging off road is good.
I've not been running regularly for a couple of years. My 5k PB after my second marathon was 19.25. I'd be lucky to crack 24/25 minutes these days.
In a winter like this one its also just so much easier to go for a run than slog through the soaked lanes or trails in expensive kit listening to my rims getting destroyed and then spend half an hour trying to clean a bike with frozen hands.
Whereas we have loads of ice, making biking very problematic. A pair of studded running shoes and I feel like Spiderman. Did 17km on some very icy tracks earlier and no grip problems.
Running is just painful and boring at first
I was in the middle of my second Cardiff Half when it dawned on me how bored I was, plodding around the docks of Cardiff. If it had been a bike race there would have been some adrenaline somewhere, but this was just plodding, plodding, with people plodding around me. I gave up running other than short training runs ready for the 'cross season
A short while later I ran limped the Safaricom Marathon in Kenya, with a nasty groin strain because I'd not had enough time to train for it properly because of having given up, etc. I was still plodding, but this time through the Kenyan highlands which had apparently been cleared of any dangerous animals, but we still had glimpses of the helicopter that was keeping an eye on them, and occasionally had armed rangers at the side of the course. I was less concerned about the boredom in that event, although I think it was my slowest run ever. At one point I stopped for a while because I couldn't see anyone else, just a giraffe about a 100m away. Alone in the Kenyan bush - that's the sort of run I like. Still painful, though, I couldn't get out of bed properly for weeks because of the groin strain. 😀
