The rain had finally stopped and my trainers were almost dry. The sun had come out, and the trees were bright green, from all the rain (every cloud has a silver/ green lining). What a morning for a run! And a Park Run at that. Mile End Park Run has quickly become my favourite way to start the weekend.
I unexpectedly ran a PB for Park Run, which was almost (18 seconds almost) as good as my all time 5 km PB which I did about a century ago. Time 22:13, 67th place, 7th female out of a field of 211 parkrunners, 3rd in my age category (SW30-34). Please refer to last weeks blog, and make of this what you will. I don't care, I just ran faster than I did a few weeks ago, which is good enough for me. Hurrah!
Thanks go to Andrew who has done naff all running for a few weeks and declared he wasn't going to run fast today, which I interpreted as we were going to run together, and have a nice little Saturday morning outing. After 1/2 mile he bombed off, leaving me a little peeved. But there is nothing like betrayal to fire up the legs. I also got racing a guy on the last lap, who we got chatting to afterwards, and established that he had seen my 100 Days top and thought that if I had done 100 days of running, then he should be able to do a 5 km faster than me, and I was basically thinking (or, trying to think) the opposite (although I lost in the end, as he beat me). But, this is all good natured! And at the end of the day, some healthy competition resulted in a good time for all of us (Andrew also beat his Mile End best time). Hurrah!
Stats
Total Days: 85 days
Total miles: 873 miles
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