So Laura and I have parted ways at Week 7, Run 1 and tonight, I ran 5k with my own music and in 36 minutes. To say I am over the moon is an understatement!
Dear Laura, it's not you, it's me. Oh no wait.... - Couch to 5K
Dear Laura, it's not you, it's me. Oh no wait...it is you!
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I did exactly the same! I couldn't take it any more!!
I couldn't take anymore of the 'this run is going to be so hard, you can't stop and walk, oooo you've only done five minutes'. She's been fantastic up until now but I was finding that it was putting me in the wrong frame of mind. Couldn't run for 25 mins with her but did 5k in 36 mins tonight without. :0)
It was the music that did me in!! I was running along the canal trying to persuade myself not to jump in!
Ha ha! I actually found the music too fast and couldn't find the right pace. 'Flower' by Moby is exactly my running pace and I actually played it a few times :0) x
I don't have an ounce of rhythm, I don't worry about the beat too much as I'm unlikely to be running to it!
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Hi RW,
This is exactly my experience too! Since using my own playlist my last three runs.have been 25 mins (feeling I could do more ), 40 mins and then 35 mins.
And I'm only in week 7!
Nice to hear that this works for someone else too.
Hoppy
By accident I ran wk5 r2 without Laura & run about 33 mins if not longer , ran through all my playlist .
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me too....only on week 4 but am using the chart print out from the top of here and timing on the treadmill, sometimes with music sometimes without going well
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I also abandoned the lovely Laura by week 7. I just couldn't take the music anymore!
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I LOVE making my own playlists (I'm a musical girl anyway :0) )
I did warm to a few bits of the music but most of it I found so difficult to run to.