This might come as a shock to you..

In fact it came as a bit of a shock to me..

but today, I ran 10 KM. I found this image here

I know what you're thinking. That's it's absolutely mental to go from running 5km to 10km, when only just the other day I was struggling to run 4km! Well, you're right hahaha

I'm not sure how I managed it, but here are a few reasons:
1. I knew I could already run 5km. So that was easy. Once I got there, I'd noticed that my breathing was fine, my body was fine, and mentally I felt that I could run further, so I set myself the goal of running another 2km... and it ended up being a whole 5 extra km hahaha
2. I'd eaten an awful lot of carbs yesterday and this morning that must have given me a lot of energy to burn
3. A girl I knew recently ran 10km in 1:10.47 in Brisbane and my 5km time the other day was faster that hers would have been. So after 7km I was determind to beat her.
4. I was running a route that I used to walk on my way to Zumba last year, which I could never run (back then), and so wanted to prove to myself that I could run it.
5. I ran the first 7km with no music. Once I put my music on, I gained a whole lot more motivation!
6. I was imagining telling my family and boyfriend that I'd run a whole ten km. This was the reason that kept me going for the last km!

The whole thing, including my cool down took me 1:11. My cool down is only 30 metres (not really good enough, I know) but I was walking really slowly with a crazy grin on my face haha so the full 10km took me 1:0845... a whole two minutes faster than the girl I know lol

If you've got some running goals, tell someone you care about and who cares about you! They will be able to share in your happiness when you annihilate them like I did today haha

Now I'm off to get a good as sleep cos I'm super tired lol