Work in Progress |
A journey of training and hopefully transforming! After taking up running mid 2011, I fell in love with it and hope to share my passion with others! When I started I couldn't run a bath! But now I can say I have completed several races including the Great North Run and have signed up for many more in 2012. |
Exciting news to share on this windy Saturday! Today I ran the 2nd Anniversary Parkrun and took 1min 54sec off my previous Parkrun PB. New PB of 29:03. I’m so happy to get under the 30min mark and cannot wait to keep getting that time down. The conditions were ok, but not great. It was quite windy and as I passed the 4km mark the wind was right in my face and I found it hard to get my breathing under control. I’m going to aim to run Parkrun about 1-2 times a month, I don’t want to get too hung up on my 5km time but it’s something I want to improve on and keep checking. I have to say a huge thank you to Michelle who paced me round and got me that time she was amazing encouragement!
Garmin data -
Total moving time 29:03 Distance 3.12miles Average pace 9:21min/mile Calories 421
Mile splits 9:12 9:06 9:53 1:01
After handing the tokens in the Parkrunners headed to RGS where the 2nd Anniversary celebrations were taking place. Lots of people had made cakes and brought treats along, I made raspberry jam flapjacks which seemed to go down really well. It was such an amazing atmosphere, everyone was buzzing and chatting to each other. It’s another reason I love running, such a feeling of community, like you’re with a group of friends (even though you don’t know half the people). Once everyone had made it over the celebrations began and after a short talk from Ian we had an inspirational talk by RunGeordieRun - Mark Allison (a fellow TBH). It was amazing to hear about his journey across America and his plans for Australia in 2013. Following that there was a presentation to hand out awards to volunteers and runners.
Still reeling from my PB this afternoon I thought I would treat myself to a shopping trip to the Metro Centre and see if I could bag a bargain in the last week of the sales. I ended up getting running stuff! A new pair of spikes (they were a bargain) and some hilly anti-blister socks.
My knee is a little bit niggly after pushing myself today but hoping to do 6 miles tomorrow, if it doesn’t feel good tomorrow I’ll postpone to Monday but I should be ok!
All in all a fantastic day!
