Speed up she said...you must be kidding I said!

[Big_fella]

W8R1 done, now I love that Laura to bits, but asking me to speed up if I felt good...well that's testing this relationship! I'm now running for 28 mins...and now she wants me to speed up....typical, never satisfied!

[MichaelH070862 Graduate]

Well done tell her you'll do it your own time

[misswobble Graduate]

You go at your own pace Big Fella. No worries. Slower the better for this lark.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

You have to love us

Yes,, I distinctly remember, shouting very loudly, at Laura, when she suggested very silly things..like speeding up and... finishing in style! I used to shout...." If I finish at all it will be a miracle!"

But of course.. we do it... and we succeed...

You are doing brilliantly and getting so close now!

[Big_fella Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Yes, you are right, I have all those same thoughts! Still wouldn't call myself a runner, and I still find it hard, but want to get out and do it, and get agitated if I miss a run???!!!

[Dit84 in reply to Big_fella]

Well i hope i do as well as you!! 28 mins running is amazing..

i struggled to get to 1 minute yesterday on my W1R1 (",)

[Big_fella Graduate in reply to Dit84]

I was just like you, a bit over 8 weeks ago. I have never been able to run 28 mins in my life before, not even as a kid. Stick with it, it very achievable. If I can...you can.

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to Dit84]

June 1st I would have been in the back of an Ambulance if anyone had seen me after W1R1. (explained in my previous posts) Now, on July 26th of this same year I am just back in from my first - but not last - 20 minutes consecutively run.

Stick with us and you too will become 'amazing', I promise. And I'm going to watch your progress and cheer you on

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to Big_fella]

not going to 'like' this because you ARE a Runner. If you still think you are not take the Quiz I put up just yesterday.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Sorry..you really are a runner☺Hooked...just like the rest of us.I am sitting here..planning my routes for my hols in France..totally hooked 😏

[Big_fella Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Ha! We have a week on a Scottish Island coming up....I'm doing the same, looking at routes and distances! Bonkers, just bonkers!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Big_fella]

😏

[Irish-John Graduate]

Wow! 'Our' US Laura is even more of a 'Major Babe' than I thought! In this version you don't get too much feedback but never is there any command to speed up or do something that might shame you! She starts off with 'Good choice to run today' later on in the programme she added ' ...awesome Runner!' to it, at the halfway time she says 'Well done! You're half way there!' and towards the last you hear 'Keep on going, you're worth it!'

Now, sometimes when she says 'Almost there! You're doing GREAT!' and I find myself wearily snarling 'Easy for you to say Laura, sitting in a recoriding booth somewhere no doubt sipping on a Mint Julip while having your toenails buffed etc etc etc' - but nowadays I don't even mean it, and it gets me through the next bit focusing on how 'superior' I now do feel to the lumbering-crawly completely out of shape mess that ran that W1D1 two months ago and nearly had Stroke doing it

Actually - she SHOULD be saying 'You've come a HELL of a ong way Baby!'

I find my running suffers when I become 'Wanty.' As in - I WANNA run FASTER! I Wanna run at the FRONT of the pack! (whenever I do get up the nerve to enter a 5k run that is). I WANNA have all the chicks admiring my physique and running technique and all the guys eating their hearts out watching it!

Whenever I find myself starting to think 'This is getting too much' I dig a bbit deeper and find its my pride talking the above - and the Lizard Brain part trying to get me back to the 'safety and security' of the couch.

I don't need anyone telling me I 'should be able to do better' - I do that very well on my own IF I let myself.

I am not WANTY - I am 'LIKEY'. As in - I LIKE what this programme is doing for me and to me, I LIKE that I am astonished at my progress and grateful for it. I LIKE that the part of me that has zero respect for myself diminishes every time I run - and it does not matter if it turns out to be a 'success' run or a 'practice' run

So - MY Laura is a Benign Dictator at times, but benign more than dictatorial. Mostly though - she runs and sweets (if I spell that word right some rather inappropriate tags appear right along with me.

Otherwise - I would not still be doing this, because ultimately I am doing it for me and with YOUR support Fellow Forumites - not for a voice either in my head or in my earphones.

'Run your own Run' my friend

[Ellymeg Graduate]

Well done big_fella! On you go...........

Great to be an eighter!

[Biscuit0107 Graduate]

I just finished my first WK8 run tonight and had the same thoughts of 'are you serious????'

[Big_fella Graduate in reply to Biscuit0107]

Ha good to know I'm not alone!

[PippiRuns]

I remember that so clearly. I remember thinking "come on, do what she says, speed up a bit" but nothing happened. I couldn't have sped up if a lion had been chasing me.

I had used everything inside me and she told me to finish in style... crazy woman!