First postgrad run today and reality has well and truly dawned. Had grand plans for run around the forest park and thought it would be easier than my usual hillier route plus shadier and cooler but right from the start I struggled. My antihistamine didn't seem to be working, making breathing through my nose impossible and my breathing was all over the place. Managed 4.1 km in 29.30 ( stopped 30 sec before the end) so the dream of running 5 km seems fairly dim and distant at this point!
Valuable lesson learned - graduation is not the end - just the end of the beginning.
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The air quality today is not good..well done, you were out there and doing it...☺ Not the end of the beginning, just a new journey.
After I graduated, like.many of us...I just ran for fun with no target or pressure, just pleasure.Then, when ready decided on my running journey..which is still very varied😏
Maybe..just go with the flow.and ease yourself along?☺
Ah thank you Floss - you're quite right ( of course ) a lifetime of being a glass half empty type of person means I tend to view things rather negatively . A new journey ... I like that !! 😄
Going to really try - going with the flow is so not my style but then never thought I would actually be running and looking forward to it either! So I guess anything is possible😉
It takes years to become a proper grown up runner! Until then we are all learning. You can however please yourself as a graduate - no programme that must be followed and, (whisper it) there is actually nothing magic about 5k.
It's never easy, unfortunately. But in some ways it does get easier - at first we couldn't even run 1 minute without feeling exhausted, but now that one minute is easy. Maybe 5 minutes are easy. I'm just hoping 30 mins get easier, but when they do I will want to go faster and I will make it hard again. But that's part of the fun!
You're so right - it's easy to forget how far we've come! I think I have to keep reminding myself how hard I found those early runs ! Thanks for the support👍
Save a few of the podcasts, sometimes it's been good to go back to W1R1 to actually feel the difference (as a bonus they make for great interval training as well!)
Your last sentence is only too true. Three years since C25k, I am still a newbie, still learning and finding out how much more there is to learn. Long may that last. C25k is just the first step.
Thanks so much it's the wise words of folk like yourself born out of your own experience that really helps those of us just beginning. Really appreciate you taking the time to respond!
Simply forget about it and carry on regardless. Don't worry so much about pace & distance, just get out and do the best you can, practice makes perfect, in time, but then you know that already? You completed c25k succesfully!😊
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A 3K with Fartleks
Back down to Earth 😢 W6R1
W8R3 - Close to the final stretch! 
Back in the game!
Aim to run more 10 Km distances
