Couch to 5K

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What's happening to me?!

npr70Graduate•

I'm on holiday, it's a Sunday and I've been out and ran for 25 mins and I'm back all before 8am! This just isn't like me at all!!! Just completed Week 7 Run 1 - found it tough and almost gave up but persevered. i always find the first 5 mins tough mentally and have to banish the 'I'm not going to be able to do this' thoughts.

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Well done @npr70, I did that one yesterday but at ten am after a long lie. Still aching today!!!

Thanks 😀. I'm impressed that you run in hilly Perthshire - I find the flattest route I can!

Me too! Mainly I run in the streets in the village as once you leave there are hills!

Get those strength and flex exercises done.. it will help the aches and pains !

Well done. That is what running does to you. Life changing

The Martians have come in the middle of the night - body snatchers - and stolen your body and replaced it with another. You look much the same as you used to - but everybody you know , knows that the old you has been taken !!!

😂😂😂 so true! My family do look at me like I'm an alien when I say I'm off for a run!

Love it! They took mine a while back

You've become a runner, that's what's happened! Good on you and we'll done. Week seven is brilliant isn't it

The first five to ten minutes can be hard.. just slow, and steady and you will be fine.

Well done you... it is so great to be up and running early! I love it Love Sunday runs the most..

I am sorry to say, though, what is wrong with you, is you are totally hooked.. You are a runner...like it or not..and isn't it amazing!!!!

W7R1 is quite a challenge - head wise. Now you've done it, barring injury, the rest will just follow.

As others say slow and steady

Never give up on a run, unless you injure yourself that is. A run can nearly always be salvaged by taking a walk break - which gives you time for your breathing to return to normal - then you push on again.

Well done for telling those gremlins where to go! The programme does change us for the better- it's amazing, isn't it?!

It's so strange, isn't it? I'm getting up before 7 every day now, even on the days I'm not running, having got myself into the routine - I'd never have imagined myself doing so voluntarily!