I’m on week 7. Last week I was stir crazy due to the weather. I ran run 1 of week 7 on Monday and then had to wait until Saturday to run again. I hadn’t prepared mentally or diet wise to run Saturday, I was planning on Sunday. But my husband encouraged me to go out at tea time. I think he wanted to follow the Liverpool match in peace 😜. I was nervous I’d left it too long etc but went out and had my best run ever. I was elated. The kind of run where when you’re on the five minute cool down walk back to the car, you want to kiss a stranger and tell them you’ve just run for 25 minuets ( I didn’t).
Today I’ve known all day I would run tonight. I’ve had a day of work so I’ve eaten healthier, drank water rather than grazing on chocolate and drinking lots of coffee and set off. I’ve run for 25 minutes 3 times already, it wasn’t windy what could go wrong? I don’t know what went wrong but it was the hardest run yet. I didn’t feel like I had anything in the tank. It was sooo hard! I waited for what seemed like an eternity for Jo Wiley to tell me I was half way. It was then another age before she told me I only had 5 minutes to go- I wondered if she’d gone to sleep or was tricking me to run for longer and then.... when she encouraged me to speed up for the last minute I could have screamed at her.
So the next run is W8R1 28 mins. The old me would repeat tonight’s run to regain my confidence, but one thing this forum has taught me is to have faith in the programme and in myself. I will give it a go - but I’m sticking to coffee and chocolate on Thursday.
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Meh. You know, some runs are just like this, no rhyme no reason. Don’t sweat it or think upon it further. That run will have still contributed to your increasing fitness, and you WILL have better runs. I graduated in Nov 17, and still have the odd duff one. Difference now is I don’t worry about it. Just makes the better runs even sweeter. 😀
Aww thanks for taking to time to reply everyone and for the encouragement. I will put it behind me. I started C25K a couple of years ago. It wasn't this podcast, it was an app I downloaded from my phone. I got to week 5 but repeated many runs along the way because of lack of confidence I guess. "I'm not ready for the next run" or "That didn't go well" etc were the common thoughts in my head. With this app, I've got through this far without repeating any runs I don't want to start now. I think that is what kept me going tonight. I will let you know how Thursday goes. Thanks once again. Night night.
Having completed the run, put it to the back of your mind and run on. It seems less easy runs happen for no identifiable reason but the trick is to keep going to keep your confidence in tact. The thought of having to redo a run is great motivation for me!
Don’t sweat it. It was just a tough run. Sometimes things fall into place and you have a great run, and other times you just can’t settle in. Its a process of slow progress, so don’t stress, you are doing fine. 👍🏼
I think we can all have good and bad runs and it doesn’t all seem to make sense . I graduated before Christmas . Did the c25k+ podcasts for a while . Now am doing the 5-10 k challenge with juju - week 3 . All has been going really well . And last night my run didn’t go that well . Started having cramp in my calf ! Maybe was a bit dehydrated but don’t really know why . Good luck you!
You are doing really well. We have to accept it can’t all be great. But it isn’t always easy to !
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Bad Run 😑
