Dear Laura, it's not you, it's me. Oh no wait...it is you!

[RokensWife]

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!

[Hidden]

I did exactly the same! I couldn't take it any more!!

[RokensWife Graduate in reply to Hidden]

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)

[Hidden]

It was the music that did me in!! I was running along the canal trying to persuade myself not to jump in!

[RokensWife Graduate in reply to Hidden]

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

[Hidden in reply to RokensWife]

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!

[hop_along Graduate]

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

[Rockette]

By accident I ran wk5 r2 without Laura & run about 33 mins if not longer , ran through all my playlist .

[Moosetgoose Graduate]

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

[edqa233 Graduate]

I also abandoned the lovely Laura by week 7. I just couldn't take the music anymore!

[RokensWife Graduate]

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.