Sunday Run: Still recovering

It's a full week since I ran my first half marathon and my legs are still not 100%. Even so I felt the need to get out and run to keep my fitness up. This morning I did my regular long loop. My legs were feeling decidedly stiff and I was lacking a bit of energy, but I kept going.

This is me after my run enjoying a bowl of cereal and fruit.

The second and third kilometre of this run are all uphill and I struggled a bit, but didn't walk. Hive account@trevor.george suggested I try pushing my hips forward. I found this makes it almost feel like I'm being pulled along. This may have helped me maintain a little more speed up the hill and on other parts of the run. I wasn't consciously doing it all the time, but I'll be trying it again. I feel I have potential to run faster, but currently there's definite limits to how fast I can go that don't feel that quick. I will have to look a little more into running technique to see what I'm missing. I've not read much about this, but I expect there's plenty online, including videos.

I have a goal of doing a sub 25 minute 5k. I've got fairly close, but just need to find that extra bit of speed to get there. I plan to do more parkrun and some local events. Running against other people can push me to go that bit quicker.

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