Motivation needed

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I started running years ago and got to do a 5k run, then stopped. Have tried several times to get back into it but struggling. Got to week 3 here but haven't been out for 3 weeks - can always find an excuse. Should I just start again at week 1?

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Well done you for having the honesty and guts to post when its not going great and youre a little at sea.

Tough love coming up. You probably want to start again because you've posted. That the positive thing , the negative is that in your own words you can always find an excuse. So lets deal with the negative stuff.. The excuses are your own and only you know how legitimate they are. What is stopping you? - because if you got to 5K once clearly it isn't ability that's a blocker, nor is it finding time because you found time to do a 5K - so you could find it again. Can you recall what it was about Week 3 that made you stop? I notice that you haven't posted before, or not that I can see anyway, so I don't have any hints to go on

Do you need a routine, or a virtual running buddy to keep you motivated or is it something else. I can't answer that for you, but here is my own running recipe, which I hope may spur you on a bit.

Run, post about it and run again. That way it's a diary of your achievement and we love to see achievement on here.

Pick a running buddy on the forum who is at about the same stage as you or a bit ahead and ask if you can buddy each other up. Mine is fab and I can't let her down, and at times when I felt a ready excuse coming on, knowing I'd be failing her was more important to me than failing myself

Try and get a routine that is unstoppable for some it is running every other day, others like to do MWF and take weekends off.

Get your kit ready and visible from bed or the front door when you walk in home.

Give yourself an incentive for completing either the runs or the kms or both

Use the forum to keep you motivated, to ask questions and anything else frankly, our site mentors are Oldfloss and IannodaTruffe and anything they say is just so helpful, especially when in the early days you are be-set by doubts.

Tough love bunny gone now, and happy bunny back. Try Week 2 and see how you get on if you can't make the interval, then you know you need to go back, If you can then brilliant you're back on track.

I hope you find your way back

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Nope... do whatever run was supposed to come next and just get on with it. No thinking.

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You have given yourself permission to give up. Follow Jancan's advice about motivation and Googleme's advice about not over thinking. Put your shoes on and run....almost doesn't matter which week imho, just need to do it buddy