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8 slow miles yesterday, trying to keep heart rate in the aerobic zone.

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3 miles on the treadmill.

I don't know what was different today, but I ran like the wind and barely felt out of breath! Kept upping the speed to make it harder and I NEVER do that! Felt fabulous.

And on a fast day. Wonder if that is why....have run fasted before lots of times though and haven't felt that way...

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Thanks family

pink being first should come into it. My husband often knows each calendar ahead of mine, but any clashes we talk and decide on importance or turn.

A puny 2 commuting miles to add

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I think so too I should book myself in now!
He was on leg 2, I read your description to him and he said he thought it was leg 3.

It’s definitely a unique race and the scenery is amazing!

Pinkponies, yes it was! I've never done anything like it before, but loved it and will def do again next year if I can. What leg was he doing? I was leg 3.
Sounds like it must be your turn next year!

@familygermsareok
Was it’s the devils burdens you were doing?
My husband was doing it with our club, he did it last year too and said the wind made it so much harder!
I went along and held jackets etc last year, it looks brutal!

I’d love to run it one year though but one of us has to watch the kids and he keeps getting his name in first

Well done slippermaiden. Don't forget to add your miles

Hope your next run better sayhello, sometimes there's just a bad run for no obvious reason. I'm sure you'll be fine for your HM.

That sounds way too hot for running Penguin , but hope you had a lovely time.

I really enjoyed Sat and thankfully didn't get lost. It was really windy though and lifted me off my feet a couple of times. But the last half of my leg was downhill with the wind behind me and I felt like I was flying, loved it, absolutely buzzing at the finish!
My leg was 6.6 miles, but there was 1,273 feet of climbing, so do I get to double my mileage???
Also did a gentle 6.5 today so have 13.1 to add
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Plus Penguin's 35.5
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Week 2 of couch25K completed this morning!

Crap forgot some pages

Can’t be bothered right now will fix it later

15 miles today for me, really wish the weather would clear up though, was running the first 4 miles against the wind which then made the rest of the run hard work. I’m happy I got to the end though, just have to take the rubbish runs as they come I suppose.

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A week in South Africa was just what the doctor ordered 😂 although not a lot of running (was 35 degrees). I managed one sunrise run but even then stopped after 4 miles as was baking already.

Anyway some commuting miles and 10 from this weekend. Working on getting mileage up before I work in getting my speed back up

35.5 total

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15.5 from me today- feeling much better about 30k in couple of weeks now. Hills though, I hate the hills! Spent a lot of time why the Romans didn’t think of a way to iron them out of roads or why we don’t have some kind of pulley system to help people

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Managed a not too hungover run with friend along the canal. Very soggy drizzly day in Edinburgh. Felt good though.
bibble if you are very tired after a run you could maybe look at what you are eating before & after to be well fuelled.
tricky I think this is s pretty good mileage total, although January is often fuelled by enthusiasm after the new year!
Hope all those under the weather pick up soon.

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1027, forgot to add that part!

Been a pretty slow week as I’ve got this cough that’s been hanging about for 2 weeks now, tried to rest a bit this week to see if that would help it shift.
Did a very steady and very windy run in the forest on Wednesday then an easy 5.5 round town on Friday, longer run this morning, 9 miles.

Got my January climb badge from strava with 3 days to go, 2000m climbed. When you live in my town you can’t avoid the hills!

5 weeks to the big day! Argh!

Out of interest, how are we doing miles wise? Is this on par with last year's miles? Well done everybody! I'm on 6 week countdown to bath half now! It does not seem as far away as I would like...

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Been really ill this week so only 15.6 to contribute :(

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Did my 3 runs this week. That's brings me to 2 months of steady running. I'm really pleased it's starting to feel like z habit. I aldo can't wait for lighter mornings.

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bibble, I’m the same after parkrun at this time of year, just want to veg on the sofa for the rest of the day!

I did 5k of hill reps on thurs and 5k at parkrun today.

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Agh was looking at page 1 of 8! The correct number below...

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Hi all, welcome Anawi, a couple of weeks of going regularly and I bet you'll get the love for it again!

Parkrun this morning - 19 seconds away from my PB... grrr. Have been doing some interval runs to try to get my speed up a bit but probably need to keep it up a bit longer before I see the results.

Anyone got any tips on how not to be completely exhausted later in the day after a run?? Nap probably not very realistic with the kids about and not sure I'm very good at sleeping in the day anyway.

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Didn't manage to run yesterday but I have been for a run this morning. Only 2 miles but it was on roads and felt ok, so that's good and I'm loving my new trainers! I find it hard to pace myself when not on a treadmill so was pretty pleased with today.

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It was just one of those days sayhello! Put it down to a bad run and forget about it. I had exactly the same last week and said to dh I couldn't get past 8 miles and was going to pull out. He said do a few more before you decide and when o didn't feel the pressure of having to make it, I did a far longer run, felt good and far more positive! We can definitely get round and just a blip!