First park run
When I started this running lark in January I had no ambition to run real distances. I didn't want to run a marathon but I did think I would like to run 5k, maybe, if I could. Going from being unable to run at all to running for thirty minutes, using the wonderful Couch to 5k app, was amazing. I never thought I could run for thirty minutes without stopping. In the early weeks I was daunted by the idea of running for five minutes! But I did it and a few weeks ago I found I was able to keep going. I was astonished. I was delighted. But I am slow, the original snail runner. When I completed Couch to 5k a few weeks ago I could indeed run for thirty minutes (yay!) but I was running just over 3k in that time. I have got up to about 3.7k but I had never run for 5k (actually I think I might have once, when I was about twenty nine, so around thirty five years ago) when I arrived at Bodelwyddan Castle this morning to do my first...