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| Great Scottish Run 2011 Tshirt & Bib |
My first official 10K was a blast! Woohoo!
When I started running at the start of the year I thought it would be a bit of a breeze, I mean I know lots of people who go running all the time and if they could do it then why couldn’t I?
Well a wee jog round the block trying to do 1 mile and thinking I might be sick afterwards soon changed my mind! It was a slow process and it was hard to keep myself motivated to go out running a couple of times a week and try and improve on my time or mileage!
BUT... on Sunday when I crossed the finish line 1 hour, 5 minutes and 54 seconds after I crossed the start line, I felt so elated. All the hard work was worth it! I really did want to cry... or be sick; actually it was more a mix of both! But the pride I felt overcame all my feelings and there was only one word to describe me... CHUFFED!!
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| Official Chip Time |
I was finished... I actually did it! :D
The race itself was amazing, everyone was extremely cheerful and the people all along the course cheering you on were amazing! I’m slightly disappointed that the next run I go on will be just me on my wee lonesome and no one about to cheer, clap , give me water, play the bagpipes, bang on their drums or even to shout out my bib number on their karaoke machine as I run by their house!!
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| Me & Ryan at the start line |
I had a wee running partner for the first half of the race, but Ryan is much faster than me and I tried to tell him to run on ahead to get a good time! His response was “we started together, we’ll finish together” which was really chivalrous of him! But I knew I was holding him back, so I stopped to walk, telling him to keep going saying I would catch up, but I knew full well I’d never catch him.
He finished 5 minutes ahead of me. :D
This is how the breakdown of my pace looked on my run keeper app once I had finished!
I can remember that only a couple of months ago I was struggling to get my pace under 11 minutes per mile and that was only doing about 4 miles! So I was really happy to keep it under the 11mins per mile mark for most of the race, even though I really didn’t think I was going all that fast!
