First 10km race done and dusted *does a little jig*

hello fellow runners

First official race completed, and may i say what an experiance.

Loads of tips coming my way, and what did i do .... not get any of them right. Ate a good meal on saturday night and it didnt stay down i was so nervous. Did not sleep well at all Saturday night. Then was sick twice more Sunday morning before the race -_- so needless to say i was not feeling my strongest for the race ... DAMMIT!!!

Sunday morning was up and ready early bells and on my way to chickens house. We waited for Mandz who was running with us, and off we went to the start at the sports club. A little stressful as we just made it there on time for 7am start.

Durning the run i heard screaming of my name ... it was Nat my trainer and her housemate, i heard my name but thought it was for anouther Natalie being yelled for, so just kept my head down and kept running didnt even look up at them. After 3kms i told Chicken and Mandz to run on ahead of me as they where feeling good and running strong, me i was feeling a little weak. Nat saw me once more during the race and screamed out "GO LITTLE ONE' haha, that time i saw her and waved. Ran the rest of the race on my own, but kept with a group of very nice people, kept passing each other and every time they passed me they yelled "comeon you can do it", and when id pass them id chirp back "my turn to say comeon speed it up". So Nat finished way before me and then came back to like 500m before the end waited for me and ran the last little bit in with me, shes such a sweetie, and as we turned into the field of the sports club to the finish her room mate was standing there jumping up and down and screaming well done for me :). After i finsihed i collected my Tee (Very happy i got a tee) a bar one choc and went to go find Chicken and Mandz who finished ahead of me. WELL DONE TO THEM ALL! Then the 3 of us then went back to Nat and her housemate, along the way i spotted Dale who works with me so went over for a hug, well done and chitty chat. Nat was then kind enough to stretch us all out.

After the run we went back to Chicken's house to collect cars, me and Mandz then went for brekkie at Oscars as a reward ahahaha!

All in all a very pleasing day :)

SO here's my stats ...

Distance 10km  Time 1h19min20s on Sunday 1st July 2012 which is a 5min56s improvement on my time.

I know i could have done better if i was feeling stronger so here's to beating that and the next race.

Cheers for now.

Nat
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FIRST 10km RACE

Hi all

So finally here it is, the weekend has arrived, i got up the courage and this weekend i have entered into a little 10km race

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh freaking out ... its friday, race is on sunday, and i already want to vomit haha.

I have been assured by my trainer Nat that i can do the distance as i have run it twice and done 8km. Tells me i will LOVE the energy and vibe of a race and i sould not be nervous and just enjoy.... im still nervous. Hints Nat has given me, eat a good dinner Sat night and she swears by a shot of coffee before the race for a boost haha.

Any other advice???

Will update how race goes on Sunday

Nats
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Second 10km attempt

Helloooo

Made my second 10km attemt. Very bloody pleasing!!! Improved my time by 8min, and did a peronal best 1km time. Didn't pull a muscle or get any tweeks at all :D :D happy to find my body is adjusting and getting used to a little bit of distance. Heres hoping to push it to 15km and then half marathon soon enough.

Ran this with a very good friend of mine around her area and route, and i must say it was a stunning beautiful route, thanks for pushing me chicken sure was such a pleasing run because of you. All in all VERY happy with this progress... We getting there ...

Distance 10.06km Time 01h26min13s ran started at 8 in the morning of the 24th June 2012

Post soon

Nats

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Pulled a muscle in that 10km run attempt :/ time to recover

Hey Hey

So in that first 10km run i attempted i pulled my adductor muscle (groin) was SO sore. Also my knee and ankle felt a bit of a tweek. So the next 2 weeks i of course still ran, couldn't not i love it so much, but had to tone down the distance and time.

First week
Distance 3.16km Time 28min31s

Second week
Distance 4.64km Time 41min22s

After 2 weeks recovery i felt like i could attempt distance again, but at 8km i started to feel a little something something in my groin muscle, didnt want to damage it again and not be able to run distance for a while so decided to stop at the 8km mark, didnt make 10km.

Distance 8.07km Time 1h16min24s

Better luck next week

Nats

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First 10km run attempt

Hi all

 i know i havent been on here in a while, sorry about that!!!Been busy training and run run running though. So heres the update

First10km attempt was on the 20/05/2012 started at 3 in the afternoon

Distance 10.44 km  Time 01h38min53s

What a difficult run this was. Had to push myself, really stay strong in mind for the second 5km because all i wanted to do was stop. Felt like Dory from findng nemo kept singing in my head "just keep running running running, put one foot in front of the other" im such a dork, sure it helped me through though.


post again soon

Nats
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Running progress

Hi there

So this week i didnt want to go for distance, so instead of building on my 9km run, i took it down to 4km again and tried to improve my speed, and am proud to say i showed some improvement.

Run 1
Distance 4km Time 37:07 Calories 354

Run 2
Distance 4km Time 35:26 Calories 376

Less time more calories very excited with this progress on my way to this race, know alot of improvement needed but ill get there. *determined face*

Nat has come up with some ingenious plans to get my running alot better, which is needed, where theres a problem theres always a plan and solution from her its great. She is just one of those no problem find a way glass half full kind of people. So her plans .... train running with 3kg ankle weights when they come off time should be better, and .... lets change the training up we live in South Africa, beautiful beaches, lets go training on the beach, soft sand sprints ... harder wet sand sprints. So first try at that should be Tues heres hoping it makes me fitter, faster, stronger and healthier ;)

cheers for now

blog again soon

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That awesome running spot i found

Hi all

So last Sunday i ran that route along the beach with my friend Jules.

Statas
Time 1:21:44 Distance 9km Calories 669 Avg HR 123 Max HR 164
So a little note on that time haha we got from the Casino to Usharka and took a walk out over the ocean on the pier and stood out there a good while before running back to the Casino.

I really enjoyed this run it was beautiful, cool, pleanty of others biking and running, nice and flat. Very pleasing!

I noticed this time the waves where calmer then when i took the walk with my friends and found this route, so was maybe reconsidering Surfing again haha really want to try it and it could be good cross trainig .... but then i get into gym on Monday morning and Nat tells me her story of being out in the ocean that weekend, they where out paddling and all of a sudden her friend loryn says shes burning her ear is burning ... then her side ... then her leg, then Nat feels burning on her wrist, they look around ... blue bottles  EVERYWHERE million of the little buggers. One is stuck on Nats wrist under her watch and she has to push the watch tighter down to get it off OUCH. So i then again started to get nervous and unsure about wanting to surf.

This past week i focused on biking some cross training see if it improves my running speed and distance. I dont know if this is right but i have noticed that the more weight i loose and lighter i get the faster my running seems to get.

Back to some serious running this week ahead :)

Blog again soon

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