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As hubby is away this weekend (beer festival!) i'm on my own so the blokes in the squad asked me to go for the long run with them - and would i please set the pace. So i set the alarms for 5 am and 6 am (they make awfully early starts which is why i don't usually go out with them) and met them on the corner at 6.45 am. (yawn yawn)
I gave them a one mile warm up then upped the pace to the required long run pace of 7.50 min miling. Then the complaints started.... this is too fast, too soon, too hot.... I slowed down for another mile. I'd given up my long run for this. I picked up the pace again. This time one of them stayed with me, the others stayed back. - they finally settled on 8.30 min miling. Me and the one willing disciple went off into the wild blue yonder. We passed the rest of them on the way back - they'd taken a short cut as we'd left them behind. MEN!!!!
Now i remember why i don't usually do my long run with them.
I gave them a one mile warm up then upped the pace to the required long run pace of 7.50 min miling. Then the complaints started.... this is too fast, too soon, too hot.... I slowed down for another mile. I'd given up my long run for this. I picked up the pace again. This time one of them stayed with me, the others stayed back. - they finally settled on 8.30 min miling. Me and the one willing disciple went off into the wild blue yonder. We passed the rest of them on the way back - they'd taken a short cut as we'd left them behind. MEN!!!!
Now i remember why i don't usually do my long run with them.
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Are you sure?
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Can't answer but if they knew how fast you are they must have a masochistic streak
However, in mitigation for males, I ran past two ladies out cycling their dogs for a walk the other evening. There was an exchange about how embarrasing it was to be overtaken when on a bicycle. I could only respond with " terrible...dogs get so unfit, blame them" as I plodded on my recovery run. Did your male colleagues have their lap dogs out for a walk.
And someone on one of those 'parent plus child' bike things of having a very strong little girl on the back who'd obviously done all the pushing up the nasty hill in Richmond Park.