Followed your advice

[TheClaw]

After 3 disappointing runs and posting on this forum, today I set out again and followed your advice. I did not push myself on speed. I ran for 30 minutes at my “Laura” speed, and at the end I still had some puff left in me, so I ran another 5 minutes as fast as I could, safe in the knowledge that I could then slow to a walk to cool down!

Thanks for your words of encouragement. I will now focus on consolidation

[misswobble Graduate]

Yay! Well done 😃👍

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Well done, you will enjoy your running so much more if you don't push hard all the time.

You are, and will remain for many months to come, a very new runner and building your running body is a slow process which is best achieved by the majority of your running being nice easy paced runs. Pushing hard needs to be restricted to approximately 20% of your running, otherwise the risk of injury rises hugely.

[TheClaw Graduate in reply to IannodaTruffe]

Thanks for your advice 🌹

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate]

Sounds great😊....well done.x

[Anthie Graduate]

Good to hear you felt much better for the last run of the programme. Well done for running 35 mns (that's what I do in consolidation) and enjoy a lot more uplifting running for your postgraduate consolidation!