One Race, Two PBs

Yesterday I ran Parkrun for the first time since I started 10ktober.  I avoided Parkrun during this time because I was terrified of what my time would be.  10ktober was really tiring and my pace was slow.  The last month has been about distance rather than speed.  I felt a bit more flight of foot recently so I decided it was time to climb back on the Parkrun horse.

It was probably the best Parkrun ever.

There I am, top left, at the back of the line of men in light blue shirts (and in the middle you can see Kata's pink shoes!).

Kata raced as well, the weather was perfect, and we both ran personal best times.  Kata has been working hard to achieve her own personal target time, and yesterday she blitzed it!  She ran a PB by 42 seconds which is incredible.  I ran an 11 second PB and finished in 20:07.  I am very happy with that and obviously the next target is to run a sub 20 minute 5km.  It was a bit annoying actually because my Garmin was totally out of synch with the distance markers, and although I finished in 20:07, my average pace according to my Garmin was 3:58 per km.  Never mind, I suppose it just proves that I have a sub 20 minute 5km in me.

I'll accept please

Neither of us took our phones to Silverknowes, but we made sure we got some celebratory, PB photos to record the day when we got home.

It was cold so I raced in my gloves, or as I am calling them now, my Gauntlets of Power. 

Jumping for joy :-)