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I've decided to start getting up early on Sunday's so I can get an early morning run in, and finding the runs a struggle. I'm doing 10k (my longest ever run is only 11km) but they feel a lot more difficult than they do when I run at mid-day or the afternoon.
This Sunday I was up at 5:30, had an overnight oats breakfast, waited about 45 to 50 minutes and headded out for 7am. My legs felt stiff and my upper thighs a bit sore - maybe I need to do more on my warm up than I normally would do?
I've been wanting to start pushing past the 10km barrier and work for more but I really struggled, nearly gave up after 7km but just kept going. I'm glad I did but disappointed that I couldn't go further. Looking at Strava I've only done 9 runs that are 10km+ so maybe I'm being a bit hard on myself.