My First 10Km Run

I just had my very first 10Km run this morning.  Finally.

I had second thoughts of running this morning because of the weather.  I was about to run when I suddenly raindrops.  I got back home because I had my Iphone with me.  Next was, my heart rate monitor is not functioning.  May be because of the batteries.  I had success on my previous runs because I have my heart rate monitor with me.


When the weather suddenly improved, I decided to run without the digital heart rate monitor.  So I needed to depend on myself to feel if I can effectively run without it.  Well I can say that I can run faster without the gadget since I have nothing to depend on.

Most of the duration of the run, I was on my normal pace.  But when I felt that I can sprint for several seconds, I'll go for a 20 secs sprint to improve my average pace.

I have been running these past few weeks with my wife.  And to my surprise, after only I think 3 to 4 runs, she can already complete 5Kms.  Me, I think it took me months to complete my first 5K.  Way to go Lory... :-)

So when Lory completed her 5K run, it's my turn to complete my goal for today.  To have my very first 10K run.  It's good when you have running gadgets like the IPhone with a Nike+ GPS application.  You can track your improvement.  You can track your distance so you will know when to speed up if you want to beat a specific time record.

When I reached 8.5Km, it seems like the remaining 1.5K is endless, I wanted to give up but my perseverance prevailed.  I achieved my goal and I was surprised that I was able to do it in less than an hour at 59:48.  And if the office doesn't call up twice, it could have been better than 59:48.  Now that I've done with several 5K runs, and already completed my first 10K, then t would be nice to target 10K whenever I run in the morning.  I'm usually faster during morning run as compared to night runs. :-)


Then, I will begin to look for running events. :-)