This morning I woke up at the obscene time of 4am to take part in the Run 5.30 Brighton event. The 5.30 is a 5K run/walk that takes place in town centres around the world at 5.30am, before a regular business day and today's city was Brighton and it's currently been run in various cities in Italy and today my home town of Brighton.
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| Brighton Run 5.30 - Before the start |
I've been suffering with knee pain for a the last week and have been taking it relatively easy and wanted to do this race but as an experience and not go too mad. Taking it easy, on a flat course I managed a 5k time of 24:38 and an overall time of 25:09 which makes it my fastest race 5k and second fastest 5k. My first bit of running bling though!
Quite pleased as I was taking it easy. The knee held up well but was a little sore after and I've had it wrapped in an ice pack which helps. Toying with entering a 10k next, maybe Littlehampton in September.
Progress on the 2017 1017k Challenge is going well, just shy of 600k now and I'm well on track to finish by the end of the year. I'm amazed at the progress in such a short space of time and it's obviously infectious as my wife has started the Couch to 5k program and my son finished his first 5k run yesterday.
I've also recently discovered the Relive application, which makes a video based on your Strava run. Below is my run of the 5.30 at 5.30.
