Monday Means Motivation!

Hello blog lovers.

Motivation, that's something that we all need, some once in a while, others maybe 95% of the time!  Especially when the old mojo goes walk about. But today, two very bright faces looking at me, and smiling, raring to go!  Both Tracy and Wendi are deffo back on track, mojo firmly back in place, and now just to keep that motivation going!

Half and half today, 3 mins walk then 3 mins run.  Even I can add up the numbers this time round....you'd think, right.  We start off we our warm up walk of 3 mins, a nice power walk up hill to the News shopper car park.  Simples, "Ok ladies, 3 mins of running now"  I said.  And we started on the 3 mins of running.  Now, our Wendi does like to chat, and a little thing like jogging will not stop her!  If you ever need to just run, run with Wendi, once we got her all trained up of course, and she will just keep you running with her chatting, her anecdotes, her jokes, anything!  Well she was chatting this first 3 minutes of running and we both didn't notice the time! Her Garmin usually beeps at 3 mins, but we didn't hear it, (because we were chatting!) and I just didn't notice the 3 mins of jogging, but then neither did the other ladies!  It was a full 1 minute plus! before we noticed!

After a quick recalculation, a we soon got back to the right times!  The three minutes is a tad harder, and you really do begin to notice the minutes of jogging a lot more, (even with Wendi's chatting) but the ladies did really well.  I was hoping that we will get further towards Blackbrook lane for this first 15 minutes, get passed our bench mark of 2 weeks ago!  And we did!  So next week we have to push a tad harder, getting further distance for our jogging!  That 5k parkrun is beginning to look like its going to be a walk in the park!

Things did slow down on the way back, but only by seconds really, I encouraged Tracy to just get a little bit more ground between each stride, she threw me a look as if to say "One more word bird!"  Now that's when you know someone is trying as hard as they can!

We covered dead on 2 miles this time!  Just another 1 mile to add on to the distance and bingo, Bob's your uncle Fanny's your aunt and you're a 5k ParkRunner!

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