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Dear all

Please can those who’ve started week 3 and are tracking your distances - is week 3 much further than week 2?

I have a route that’s worked well for week2 - but not sure if it’ll be long enough for week 3.

Thanks.

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I didn’t measure distances at that stage, but I’d probably lengthen your route by approx 0.5 to 1K.

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My guess is that you won’t need any more distance - I’m running on a treadmill, so this is only a rough guide, but according to my Apple Watch, my w3r1 was actually a shorter distance than any of my week 2 runs! The total elapsed time for w3r1 is shorter, it seems more of a “quick blast” to get you up to 3-minute runs.

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In week 3 you do the same amount of running as week 2 but less time in walking breaks. The whole workout is actually 4 minutes less. So I don't think you'll need to extend your route until week 4.

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You can always keep going and repeat the route until you hear the halfway bell

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fibrorunner

My route on wk3 actually is less in distance than wk 2 probably because I ran ( well wobbled more slowly ) 😮

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