Bad day at work, wet and windy when I got home - it was the hardest day so far just finding the motivation to get changed and get out there. Within twenty seconds of starting my knees were crying enough - but I ignored them and ran anyway, so glad I did, not only was it another step closer to the end goal, but I ran further than I've managed before. I've discovered my inner competitive self - I'm not competitive against other people but I do seem to enjoy punishing myself - (maybe this is a subject for an entirely different forum.....)
Come on run 3, bring it on
As an aside - I changed route again on Saturday for my first run of week 4 and used an old railway line which follows a river. It is beautiful during the day - but as I found out, it's miserable and desolate at night. Won't be doing that again until the clocks change.
Good work and well done. I remember well having to "dig deep" for some runs during C25K - in fact, I still have runs like that now and again! But they are fewer. It's a good opportunity to show yourself what you can do - mental stamina required!
For crying knees, do consider these exercises for your rest days:
Great! Go you.. getting out there on these dark wet evenings is hard... try not to punish yourself too much.. we like to keep you injury free and happy
Thanks all for the positive posts - when I started this I never considered the mental challenges it presents - but conquering those is actually proving to be as equally rewarding as increasing my physical abilities. As long as I keep hitting my targets, I will graduate a month today on the 22nd December. I fully intend to keep running in 2018 - in the back of my mind I have the word "Marathon"........... or was it Snickers?
Oh and thanks for the exercises, I started doing these on Sunday, together with stretches every morning. Knees feel better already!
Well done. A hard time of year to get up the motivation to run (its always flipping night time). Well done for having a longer term goal of a marathon. Now to decide which one!
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