MiniGB took almost 4 minutes off her parkrun PB yesterday. Doing "cross country"[1] at school is really helping with her pacing. First parkrun for ages for her so we just planned on taking it easy and having walking breaks when required but kept it to just 30 seconds walking every 10 minutes.
Now I can help her knock more time off by pacing her to knock ~30 seconds off each time. It helps that she doesn't have cricket on a Saturday afternoon now (although she is still doing football Friday night, which doesn't help Saturday morning legs, and her cricket starts up on a Sunday from May.)
Not really cross country as it's all on roads and pavements but it does involve a ~20% hill. No mud though.
MiniGB took almost 4 minutes off her parkrun PB yesterday. Doing "cross country"[1] at school is really helping with her pacing. First parkrun for ages for her so we just planned on taking it easy and having walking breaks when required but kept it to just 30 seconds walking every 10 minutes.
Now I can help her knock more time off by pacing her to knock ~30 seconds off each time. It helps that she doesn't have cricket on a Saturday afternoon now (although she is still doing football Friday night, which doesn't help Saturday morning legs, and her cricket starts up on a Sunday from May.)