Riding the Waves to Eternity: Hangin’ with the Cosmic Surfer

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Target Achieved

Jun 2, 2022 | Legs!, Sugar, Ah Honey Honey

I intended to post tonight about progress with writing and publishing, but events got in the way. For those following along, I posted a monthly update on progress with combatting diabetes last night. In it, I wrote about sticking with where I was at with running for a few days, and then trying for a 5k next week.

I went out tonight following a different route. About half way round I was feeling good and decided to try and keep going until my legs gave out. After a while, I realised that my first 5k since 27 January 2010 was a possibility. When I got home, I found that I’d miscalculated the route distance and had jogged 5.95km, or thereby. I’m knackered, but happy.

Assuming I stay injury-free, I can now repeat the route until I’m comfortable with the distance. The thing is, now that I know that I can do 6k, then I also know that, with more pain and effort, I can manage 10k, which was my stretch-goal. My initial target was 5k and to manage it in under half an hour. I didn’t time things today, but I reckon the 5k time was around 40 minutes. So I now have three goals.

    1. stay injury-free
    2. cut the 5k time incrementally
    3. extend out to 10k.