W4 done! Undecided about how glad I am about that.

[Marvo69]

Hot day today.  Mark it in your diary folks...a bank holiday without rain. So I got up really early to get my final week 4 run done before the heat of the day. Bleary eyed, I turned off my 10am alarm (that is early for a bank holiday right?), donned my shorts, running bra and calf stockings. And headed to the park, alas 40 minutes later as 3 kids and the dog had decided to join but couldn't find their shoes! So, at least 11 isn't the heat of the midday sun, so my early start had paid off.

The kids went straight to the playground leaving me to run and mind our dog who has an ASBO with other dogs. Great.

Anyway, run done. At the most painful point all you lot on the forum I could hear urging me on in my ear, and a couple of minutes after finishing the back end of my ass caught up, which was a PB.

Cryotherapy in the paddling pool now, where I shall not celebrate completing W4 but instead fret that I now need to face WEEK 5 😱😱😱😱

Good luck all and thanks for your support out there today.

[Jullaly Graduate]

Brilliant and well done, I'm exhausted listening to your run, 3 kids and the dog! Enjoy the hydrotherapy pool in the background lol

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Your post did make me laugh! Your dog with an asbo! Sounds like my friend's dog - not a border collie by any chance? I finished that run yesterday- found it quite tough but like you I heard all the forum people cheering me on & got through it. Onward & upward to W5. We can do this. We got this. Good luck.

[Marvo69 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

How did you know. It IS a border collie😆

Good luck next week! #we got this

[Hidden in reply to Marvo69]

Ha ha! They are so territorial & protective. My sister in law has always had them - she's a lovely dog (the border collie - not my sister in law!) but I don't like taking her out on my own.

[wyersmith Graduate]

Well done! With all that going on too. Nice one! W5. Such a sense of achievement. It really gives you an extra boost for the second half of the plan. Just keep doing what you’re doing and if anything, slow it down a bit. You’ve got this!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Week 5 is amazing... keep it slow and keep it steady.. do not push too hard...just relax into the runs....

PS

10 a.m ??? Early.... ?? I was having my second breakfast then

[Marvo69 Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Like I said, bank holiday!. Though I have to admit my 7 year old had come in at 5.45am and I ignored him!!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Marvo69]

Nooooo.... that is the best time of the day...

[Marvo69 Graduate]

Update. I have now had my hair cut very short in a final attempt to lose weight before going into W5.

[Tasha99 Graduate in reply to Marvo69]

😂

[WalkingWithLabradors Graduate in reply to Marvo69]

😂

[Catbee Graduate]

Love the hydrotherapy!! 🤣

*shaves legs to lose weight 😬*

[Tasha99 Graduate]

Well done 😂

[WalkingWithLabradors Graduate]

Loving the cryotherapy idea. That’s also good for depression apparently. 😉