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[waider]

Ok, so not fully operational, and certainly not pushing flat out, but 5k in 22:34, dammit.

Sometimes, when the wind, the gradient, and my pacing is just right, I hit this sort of loose-legged long stride that feels serene. Happened me twice this evening, once coming down Hyde Park Road, and once on Sandycove Road, and there was just a hint of it as I wound up at my front door. I like that. I wish I could hit it more often, and without running.

Comments

[askesis.livejournal.com]

DAMN, dude. Doubt I'll ever break 25.

[waider.livejournal.com]

So I wanted to give you actual DATA, but I can't find the frickin' file with my running times in it where I obsessively tracked every run until I was regularly doing sub-25-minute runs, but the point is: I started running in October 2004, gave up for a bit, restarted in February 2006, and the first time I've got recorded on LiveJournal is 5k in 26:06:59 on April 1st that year. It took me another two months (almost) of constant running to knock that down to under 24 minutes. By which I mean to say, "never say never".