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Not updated my total at all this month. 5k every day. Plan to restart 10k and longer runs when the children are back at school. I'm looking forward to the challenge.

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I'm loving the cool, breezy weather we had this week. Only had two runs and have deleted the bridge to 10k app as just can't stand the stop-start wall-run. I must have a particularly strong vasoconstriction response when I stop running to maintain my blood pressure as my heart rate drops. So when I start running again, not enough blood flow to my poor legs! Anyway, just increasing by half a mile every week or two and I'll get to 10k eventually. The fact that I can't stick to either metric or imperial is silly though.

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A very cool and comfortable 4.5 miles this morning with the dog. I really enjoyed it and did in a good time even though I didn’t necessarily intend to. Hopefully this is the start of my running mojo coming back.

emummy - I’m very jealous of your terrain. All I have is a flat agricultural landscape or looping around the village where I live.
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9.7 miles this week. So glad it's cooler, nice to be able to go out for a run at lunchtime today. Need to build my distance back up slowly again as I've only been running about 5k in the heat.

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Sorry 104.8

Tired legs today. So glad the schools start again soon & I can get back to my normal running routine! Steady long run done and have now been told we're going shopping for the afternoon. Great. Maybe I can just stay in the car!

103.8

Good luck at parkrun Rocket.
Intervals in a hilly forest for me today, hard work but so nice and peaceful.

90.8

Haven't Updated for a while! I've done 9.3 Miles so far in August and today got a PB for my 5k! Was super happy & definitely felt like I could have kept the pace up the whole time (it was an interval run so 1k warm up, 1k hard, 1k recovery till 5k). Have a park run this Saturday so going to try a faster pace for the whole thing and see how I get on! It has more hills than today so not expecting it to be as good!

82.5

Easy run tonight; it's dh's birthday and dd1 got straight As in her exams, so we had a wee celebration. So didn't get out till 9 and it was nearly dark by the time I got home - beats getting up at 5 am though!

72.2

Glad it helped AnotherOtter!
Speed session tonight, felt a bit tired but not too bad.

66.2

Thanks for the downhill running advice, emummy. Leaning forward helps a lot.

10.4 miles for me over the week. Finding it tough to get out the door. I have started the 5k to 10k programme and the stopping and walking for a minute then starting again is surprisingly hard for me.

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Warm & sticky & hilly run this morning, very glad to get home! Training is going ok though and with any luck the weather will be cooler for race day in September.

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I love this weather but not for running! Did a hot 5k yesterday and 4k interval training on the treadmill this morning.

32.8

Well done FATE, running in the summer can definitely be challenging.
Did the new trainers workBuster?!
Intervals this morning, went quite well although legs a bit achy.

27.2 (my miles + FATE's).

I did my first 10k for a couple of weeks today.

Just sticking to a daily 5k these last few weeks, with it being school summers hols and having small children so no time. Felt good to have a big run today, I enjoyed it a lot and felt I'd missed the distance.

I'm sooooooooo looking forward to the cooler weather and the children being back at school.

Steady 4 from me today.

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A laboured 3 from me today. Did a weights class last night and I’m never good the next day. Was going to do a squat / lunge class tonight but have a 10k on sun. Ideally I’d like to do a feel good, easy 5 miles tomorrow so thinking I’ll skip tonight’s class. (I’m mainly justifying why it’s ok to miss it here ).

New trainers and new watch arrived today! Sure this will mean super fast running tomorrow........

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Sounds like a good plan boomboo, the only way is up!
Soggy easy run in the rain tonight, very pleasant!

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Thank you for the responses, it's made me feel a lot better this morning.

I'm going to keep going to the club because it is supportive but mix it up with some shorter runs in the week (time allowing) to build my speed up a bit.
It would be too easy to give up now and to be honest when I started I didn't even think I could do a mile. I can only keep improving

Sounds like you’re doing great boomboo! Are there different speed groups within the club? It sounds like some of the faster people need to plan their routes to meet with the slower people better. Someone does have to be last and at my club everyone supports the slower people, you could always gain confidence on your own and pick it back up though?

Should I just suck it up and keep going or should I go out by myself under my own steam?

It's very personal, but I would never want to run with others. I'm after C25K, but still a relatively new runner having started in April (when my youngest was 3 and a half, I might add!). I like to be able to set the pace according to how I feel that day. If that's a slow one, I'd hate to feel disappointed or under pressure to go faster.

But running clubs exist, so not everyone is as antisocial in their running as I am

If you went on your own, you can decide when you go, how often and where you run. You're not tied to what the rest of the club do. I'm all for solo running personally.

I would have thought a couch to 5k club was for new runners! Being the slowest is ok, someone has to be, but did you feel you were welcome or that it was a problem that you were slower? If you are welcomed and supported then keep going. If not you might be better looking for another club or going on your own. Many people find clubs good though for motivation. Good on you for being out there after having your baby. My youngest was 4 when I started running!

Ran 4.5 miles tonight with couch to 5k club. Actually feeling very unmotivated I was the slowest and they all had to wait for me. The other runners apart from another lady were all very experienced- regularly run marathons etc.
This is my fourth week and I am 3 months post partum.

Should I just suck it up and keep going or should I go out by myself under my own steam?

Just 4 miles to add to this months total - combination of being on holiday and the heat

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7 at running club tonight from me, actually felt quite good!

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