Date: 18th January 2015
Location: Dorney Lake, Windsor
Weather: Sunny
Distance: 15km 10km
What a difference a week makes. I really enjoyed this run. Ok, I didn’t do the planned 15km, but I did do 10k instead, which is 5k more than I managed last week. My head felt so much better.
I jogged the first 5k in 34:35, I then swapped to a run/walk technique as I was very out of breath. The second 5k was run in 36:14. So my run/walk technique added 1:39 to my 5k pace, or just under 20 seconds per km. Not too shabby. I was walking for 50 right leg paces, then running for 100. The next set of running was 101 paces, increasing by 1 every time, so I was getting faster as I finished.
Hopefully I’ll be able to run the whole way at my run pace when walking and running. It’s much faster than my jogging pace.
The piece de resistance was the Galaxy hot chocolate with all the trimmings once we’d finished. There were marshmallows, whipped cream and a variety of flavoured syrups to make your ultimate hot choc. I went for a layer of marshmallows then whipped cream, I’d earned it after all.
I can’t do the other races in this series, wish I could as I really enjoyed the course. But if you’d like to make me jealous the link to the event is here.
The medal is so cool, I want one but I can’t make any of those dates 😦
Well done on your time!
Thanks. I’m gutted I can’t make any of the other dates. Going to have to remember this series for next year.