Running On Empty

It was all going so well... 😂 So, the chart I cheerily presented in the previous post , which showed the percentage gap to my venue PB coming down nicely, now looks like this: Seems like having a parkrun week off doesn't do much for your progress. Who knew?! Ooof. I guess it's a bit of a reality check, with yesterday's official time being 31:33, but there are still positives here: It makes me feel even better about the Chopwell Wood run in particular 😁 Jesmond Dene's not an easy run anyway, and this time's still closer to my venue PB than the 2 recent Morpeth runs I intentionally started slowly to avoid kerfuffle and barging in the tight early sections, so the time isn't exactly a shock I'd had to abandon a run after just 2K the previous day because I felt so bad, yet I managed the full 5K on a tough parkrun I had negative splits the whole way and even dipped below a 5:30/km pace for the final 2km Oh, and here's another positive: Sharing the run with s...