Friday 19th May
Richard had approached me at the Wednesday Circuits class to let me know he wanted to go for broke this Friday and put in a PB time. I said that would be fine, wished him luck and thought I would be OK running with someone a little slower on the Friday after a busy week. Well…….all my running friends stitched me right up!!! No one else turned up so I had to run with Richard for the 5.6miles as fast as possible. The first mile, all up hill I may add, was a brisk 6mins 36s!!!! OMG!! I could hardly breathe let alone hold a conversation and try to motivate Richard round. Mile 2, also up hill!! a little slower but still 7mins per mile. I was actually thinking how I could explain in this blog why I stopped on a run with a client, especially after Richard reminded me I was being paid for it!! Mile 3 was a little slower and I finally found some rhythm. Trying to match Richards stride with his long legs was not a good idea and so I resulted back to my normal shuffle and found my breath. I survived!! And more importantly so did Richard. An average of 7m 18s per mile was just 1 second outside his PB but this was a much longer route. Great run, but can someone else please turn up this Friday so I don’t have to do it again.
Monday 22nd May
What a beautiful evening. It was hot but comfortable. Everyone was back from last week and running the same distances again. Gemma, Faith and Louise teamed up to run the long route and had a great run, fantastic preparation for next weeks London 10000! Well done ladies. Carl also ran the longer distance and finished 35 seconds quicker than last week to record another PB and his first sub – 8mins per mile. Amazing Carl, well done!!
Rich ran the middle distance and shaved 26 seconds off last week and, similar to Carl, recorded a new PB in doing so. His 8m 52s per mile extremely quick and I am sure to get quicker.
Sharon led the team with Nina and Mandy and between them they all improved on last weeks times to show great improvement. Well done ladies.
There is no running club next week due to the London 10000 but we will run these routes for a final time the week after and a chance for some more PBs!!
| Name | 22/05/2017 | Speed | |
| Mark | 4.40 | 39:12.0 | 08:54.5 |
| Mandy B | 3.60 | 39:44.0 | 11:02.2 |
| Rich | 4.40 | 39:02.0 | 08:52.3 |
| Gemma | 5.60 | 54:24.0 | 09:42.9 |
| Carl | 5.60 | 44:14.0 | 07:53.9 |
| Nina | 3.60 | 39:29.0 | 10:58.1 |
| Sharon | 3.60 | 38:29.0 | 10:41.4 |
| Louise | 5.60 | 54:24.0 | 09:42.9 |
| Faith | 5.60 | 54:24.0 | 09:42.9 |
