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On Saturday morning I ran to a parkrun and ran my fastest time on that course and only 1 second off my 5k PB, despite the howling winds and very muddy fields. Somehow I finished 12th. I'm always too nice at the start and don't like to push to the front so get held up a bit over the first k but this made me think maybe I should get myself to the front at the start and see what I can do! Or maybe I should enter a 5k race as opposed to "fun, friendly, not serious run" sometime?
Sunday was a lot slower, much colder, muddier, wetter, longer, slippyer (fell over twice in the mud). A flooded path made me re-route so I decided to head up onto an old hill fort for a lap around the top before heading across town to the park run course, getting a bit lost, very cold, taking a short cut that ended up being longer, before getting home after about 15 miles. My longest ever run(!) and I wasn't destroyed at the end of it.
The training feels like it's working.