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Flitwick 10K

I hate the word ‘undulating’. Just say ‘hilly’ so that we can all mentally prepare for a race that mainly consists of hills. Magic hills that seem to go up and up but never come down! Flitwick 10k was one of these races. The hills weren’t massive but the 2-3k sections of a steady incline were not my favourite. 
It has been two weeks since the Brighton Marathon and one week since me and Raf nearly repeated the Marathon distance walking around Disneyworld. I tried to start running again on Monday but had to stop after two miles due to pain in my knee. Luckily I had an appointment with the physio that afternoon and so she suggested that resting it for a week should help. My rib injury has massively improved and whilst I still haven’t got my full lung capacity back, I am in hardly any pain now and not dependant on painkillers.
So I hesitantly signed up for the Flitwick 10k on Friday as I had been leaving it as long as possible to see how my knee was doing. I decided that I needed to keep running to get me towards my 300km goal even if I did it slowly. I taped up my knee and set off in the rain this morning round the ‘scenic and undulating’ course which I struggled with in the first mile or so with the steady inclines. But then I seemed to warm up a bit and felt a lot stronger than I had at the start and managed to get quicker and quicker with every mile I completed. I think it helped knowing I was only running 6.2 miles instead of 26.2 miles! I started the race running at 10:08 minute miles and ended at 9:02 and crossed the finish line at 56:24. It isn’t my fastest 10k but I was happy that I was able to run at a much faster pace than I have been able to in the past two months. I had started the race with a goal of running under one hour and with a secret hope of running 58 mins. And so I am extremely happy with my time and hopeful that my training is back on track!

Thank you to all my sponsors from the past two weeks: Didde Bjerglund-Martin, Wilf Francis and Ashley Berglund Buscanera. I am now officially at the half way stage of my fundraising. Woo hoo!

If you are able to donate then please visit my fundraising page at:

KM Complete: 135KM
KM To Go: 165KM


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