W7r1

[Windoze]

Wow. Was quiet apprehensive about starting the week with 25min run. The last week's have been building up to a big run at the end.

Loved it 😃 slow and steady as advised and could even speed up last few mins. Still finding the evil weed hard to quit tho but this has focused me more 😁

[ThomasSmyth]

Well done! I'm stuck at this point currently, but it's probably my fault for messing with the programme.

I ran week 5 and did the 20-minute end to the week fairly easily in fact. I decided I wanted to do run 3 again before carrying on. I did it perfectly and then decided to carry on an extra 5 minutes to 25 minutes and ran just short of 5k (pretty annoying). I decided to skip week 6 to week 7 so I could continue my success with the longer runs, but I have just been hitting a brick wall now and can't get that 20 minutes constant running again.

Diagnosing the issue it seems my pace was way too fast as I was cutting a minute/km off my pace from previous weeks and as a result I injured my ankles a bit. I tried again today and struggled to keep going at the 17-minute mark so walked, but continued running for the last 5 minutes.

I think I am just going to keep hammering week 7 until I can do it. I'm pretty sure I'm almost there, just need to focus more on my breathing and mental resilience.

[Hidden]

Well done on doing the run and who knows maybe the running will overtake the weed one day. ... good luck and happy running next time out