Today I made my second visit to the Letchworth parkrun. Another big crowd there again on a lovely bright, if cold, morning. I left home a little earlier to cycle there with time to spare.
I ranked a bit higher this week with a time about a minute quicker. It was very muddy on a lot of the route, so we were sliding around a lot. I'm sure that must slow me down a bit. There's a long muddy hill to climb and I had to walk up some of that the second time. You will see that there was a guy much older than me just ahead. He's doing really well. There were also some kids running. It's very inclusive. I hope to keep on improving.
My Endomondo app ran on a little longer after the finish. As usual I don't trust the maximum speed. My quickest kilometre was the last one when I found the energy to pick up some speed in hope of improving my time and maybe picking up a few places.
This was on the way back. I was at the top of a hill that I struggle to cycle up on the way there. Maybe I'm building some cycling muscles too. It's about 3 miles each way, but mostly uphill on the way there. At least I get to coast a lot on the way back.
As I'm looking to do the local half Marathon in May I need to get more organised with my training. Endomondo will create a plan for you. I did this previously for a 10km event. It at least gives me more of a mix of training. I don't stick to it as they specify a pretty slow pace on a lot of the runs. There's also a lot of shorter runs. I may extend those a bit as I like to do at least a half hour and it depends on what route I take. I'm open to any advice from experienced runners on what I could be doing.
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