So reached week 4, walked 5 mins, ran 3 mins, walked 90 secs, ran 5 mins, walked 2.5 mins tried to run 3 mins but couldn't do it....damn!

[dylan321]

Oh well try again on Wed...hope I can do it ...but on the up side never ran for 5 mins before...hooray!

Anyone else done the same????

[almac30]

Dylan,

I understand your frustration, but stay positive, for the first time you have ran for 5 minutes non stop! Think back to week 1 or week 2. Could you have imagined achieving this?

Wednesday is another day and another run, and I'm sure you'll do it. If I can do it, anyone can.

[Gemski]

Same run for me today, I started ok with the first 3 and 5 minute, I managed the second 3 minute, but the second 5 minute got the better of me! Bit disappointed because I've found it manageable til now. I'm going to do run 1 again until I can do it fully before even starting run 2!

[SJN2K Graduate]

Don't lose heart. I found W4R1 really tough but persevered and completed run 3 last weekend and it felt much better as the week went on. Keep on going, stay positive and you'll be starting week 5 before you know it

[dylan321]

Thanks your encouragement everyone....I'm gonna keep trying

[JHarveyL Graduate]

What I found was that I was running just that bit too fast. This actually happened to me on W3 and, following advice from the lovely people on this forum, I slowed down ever so slightly and managed it really well on two out of my three W4 runs (the middle one was in a different place with more ups and downs, so I wasn't pacing it so well. I then made the translation to W5R1 really easily. Will find out later if it still works at 8mins!!!! Keep going. You can do it.

[Hidden]

Try not to be so hard on yourself! Look at what you have achieved so far.

During some of my weeks I repeated some of the runs, because I thought I didn't do them justice.

Stick with it.

[BluebellBev]

Slow your pace right down. Once you can run 5k, you can work on speed if you want to. Stixk with the plan, you can do it.

[AM12]

I'm starting week 4 tonight and it looks like such a big step up from week 3!! Think it'll take me more than 3 attempts to master week 4!!

[dylan321]

Well I did it....week 4, 2nd try at run 1 done...feeling much better