Day 75 - My first 10km

( Just checked on GMAPS and this appears to be 5-600 metres short of 10km. The cloudy rainy day I think affects the satellite reading. It was only today 8th December that I realised that I had run further and still the 10km mark was the same spot. Still a good run all the same. ) Yes, my first 10km, and it felt good!

I am really surprised because this week has been forecast cold and very rainy with thunder showers - Not the weather for running - especially as I have not and don't plan running in the (heavy) rain.

Therefore, I have been feeling really good at running back to back 5km at the tail end of last week.

Today was cloudy (it is now raining very heavy) and it is very warm. After church I decided I might squeeze another 5km in before lunch.
Got ready, was feeling very good, and decided 5 miles would be better than 5km. I started off and just felt good, no aches, no pains - it felt quite fast , but I decided just to keep going and not to look at times.

At 1 mile I checked and saw it was 8.40 pace that I was running at that moment, so tried to keep the rhythm going. At just over 1 mile I headed out on a new route. I have planned this route but did not want to run it in the dark. I am glad about that decision, as it was far longer than I thought, and it turned back on to my old route. I told myself I should cut the distance to 4 miles...but at the turn off point to head home for the shorter route I just kept going. I decided I could still cut it short to 5 miles, but in the end I kept going and had to extend the run slightly to get the last 0.2 miles for the 10km.

I had to run through a building site, over some very rough road especially between mile 5 and 6 which probably accounts for the slow time.

Here are the splits.
1- 8.27
2- 8.50
3- 8.51
4- 8.58
5- 9.08
6- 8.50
last - 8.46

10 km in 55 minutes 10 seconds.

Feeling really good at running 10km!