Fatter but fitter… or fitter but fatter??? Exactly the same time as my Nov 7 effort 
Slight tail wind going out, headwind on the return so the splits don’t quite tell the whole story…
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Left it as late as I could, even did a warm-up on the turbo, but just too icy on the pavements so had to venture off road. Even that was sketchy in places, so pleased to just sneak under 6min/ml.
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Forgot just how depressing new years morning is, almost didn’t bother doing more than going for a run, utterly not up to running hard, but I said I’d do it…
Used the Kingston Parkrun course, which was possibly a mistake as it was pretty busy, and also surprisingly slippery, but not in real terms, I’ve run short 18’s in worse conditions on it in parkruns.
3:41
3:54
4:02 (this KM includes the turnaround which is off path on muddy grass, always slower)
3:49
3:51
So 19.17.1 for the lap, 94 seconds slower than PB.
Average heartrate 158, max heartrate 159, at no point was I really hurting - not surprising as I’ve run half marathons 6 beats higher average than that - but I couldn’t run any faster.
Oh and I think the garmin had me even shorter than funkster after I’ve commented on his distance…
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Is that like “your all gay”?
All your proud belong to us 
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Bar steward.
After all of those pints you had in Tier 2 as well?
How the eff did you manage that 
Well bloody done.
Great start to the year that 
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Good effort. Same here, procrastinated for a few hours then went to the Bromley ParkRun course but when the mental gun went off all of a sudden I wanted to go hard…too hard.
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As predicted, not quite made it outdoors yet
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Hurry up! The sun goes down soon 
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Not manned up yet. It’s started snowing/sleeting. Still thinking about it
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At least you won’t overheat and blow up…!?
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I took the Xmas lights down and chucked the tree on the compost pile on the allotment.
Here endeth my excursion out of doors.
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Think about the mulled wine you’ll have earned afterwards 
Jings. That SUCKED.
5:00.2
5:25
6:01
5:46
5:51
For 28:03
My PB… 19 something. I can’t seem to find it exactly. Best I have record of is 21:30. Either way, a long way from there!
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Managed to get out. Not eaten a thing all day. Feel crap, but surprisingly the crisp air kinda made me feel a whole lot better, and once I got running I felt good (somewhat like the effects of a morning ski lift after a big night).
Shocked myself… (no idea what’s going on my with my Garmin. The GPS is offset)
EDIT - I think the reported distance is way off. Knowing the normal 5k’s I do around the park, a medium lap is 2.4k and so you normally have to do a fair bit more than 2 laps to make the full 5k. So I reckon this is a good 150m or so short, which would explain how I managed to appear to go so fast. So maybe an 18:15ish if things had been accurate
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That’s still a storming time @stenard nice!
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Bloody hell that’s shifting. 
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Nice one @stenard - stormer!
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Your all mad
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