21st November Losing 3 minutes in 6 weeks


Normally people set themselves the aim of losing a certain number of pounds within a particular time span. Not for this reasonably rotund runner. No, the challenge for me is to see if I can get anywhere close to my personal best time for the Bestwood Village park run before the end of the year.

At the moment I am roughly 3 minutes (and a lifetime) away from the fastest I have ever run round the 5km course. Indeed at the moment I am struggling to comprehend how I ever managed to run as fast as I did, and let me say at the outset, it was not what anyone else would even attempt to describe as fast. 

With my Garmin watch I can keep a track as to whether I am on pace or perhaps its most appropriate to say how quickly I fall off the pace. Maybe there have been some subtle but significant geological upheavals that have made the hills steeper and the kilometers longer, or maybe its the effects not of Covid but of the male menapause that have made me more sloth like.

But that is the challenge I have set myself, to lose three minutes before the end of the year. Tune in at the end of December to find out if I have managed it

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