Wednesday 7 January 2015

New Year, New Plans

1st session back for the Westwood's Jog Scotland running groups and we started the year with a bang!  After initial new years cheers we quickly discussed goals for the coming year, with many of the group keen to break some new PB's so will be great to see how we all get on during the year.  A few new faces, and a few returning faces, so a good turnout for our first night back for sure.

To spice things up a bit we are now doing a 5k time trial at the beginning and end of each block to monitor our progress, obviously times can differ with conditions such as ice and darkness but it will give us a bit of a benchmark to see how we are progressing.  We used Inverleith Park as this was the most straightforward route without traffic interference. 

The 6pm group were excited, and we had some cracking times set from the leader Steve Gush coming in first with 24min 33s up to 31min 25s for our lovely ladies Morag and Lorna.  Everyone was suitably out of breath when they finished.  Mission accomplished!  We all still had enough breath left to sing Hillary happy birthday though, what a way to celebrate!
The 7pm group were just as excited and again some great times with Lee coming in first for the group in 22min 51s and Stewart giving his all with 30m 47 which is a great effort on his comeback night after sickness and injury.  Did the 7pm group have an advantage with the gorgeous full moon lighting the way?  Only time will tell.
It was a tough first session back, which it always is after Christmas, but everyone was in high spirits and lots of smiles.

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