This photo shows my personal finishing line - a glorious tunnel of trees, brambles and nettles that the local authority kindly trimmed back for me in the last 2 days. It’s been an amazing journey and one I thought unlikely I’d finish (I’m very good at STARTING things). Anyway I told everyone when I began so I’d feel obliged to keep going but after week 6 (the dreaded) I realised I would get there. How fantastic. I’m 63 (and a half!) and had NEVER run before and every week I was horrified by what I was expected to achieve. But I did it.
You new starters and mid-programme doubters can get there too. It’s very emotional because family life and work means we often neglect ourselves. This is the first thing I’ve done just for me for decades. Not sure what I’ll do next but it’ll be another personal challenge. Well done to all the others who graduated today and all those who will follow us.
Keep running/jogging/plodding.
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Thank you. Not only is it shady it’s also very slightly downhill so a treat to myself each run! (I actually meant done and dusty - it’s dry in the east!!)
Go Sybilw!! Congratulations to you! An amazing achievement! A brilliant example of no limitations! So pleased for you! Love your finish line tunnel too! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎓🏆❤️
Next I’ll try for 5k and a park run. As a fan of yours I read your words of wisdom yesterday! I’m in no rush so you can rest easy 😆. Thanks for all your kind words to me and others.
You are an inspiration, SybilW. Keep up the good work. I am just about to finish week 6 and feel it is a watershed week, but I know I will get through the program with help and encouragement from people like you. I am 74 and haven't run for 30 plus years.
Thank you. Week 6 IS a bit of a watershed I feel. So much so that because I’d a week off with a sore foot I repeated it!! Keep it at your pace and believe in yourself. In the end I think it’s as much your mind you’re training (injury excepted of course). Us bigger numbers (I don’t accept the word old - despite what the grandchildren say!) can also do this. Good luck and keep me posted.
Amazing post, very inspirational... I also manage only about 4 weeks sticking to something and then fail... this is Week 4 and after my first 5 min run yesterday I think that I can complete this too!
It’s really mind training I think. Get that sorted and your body will follow. Tell everyone what you’re doing (I put it on Facebook!) and they’ll be amazed and secretly jealous!! I read your profile - you won’t die trying! You can do it. Look at me. Thank you.
Well done to you & a huge inspiration to everyone else to spur them on as everyone things they can't manage the next week but you've gone and done it and graduated.
Lovely post!! I have just put wk 6 r3 in the bag so to speak. I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. Congratulations on your graduation run. I too am the other side of sixty and needed to get fit. Never thought I would get this far
Thank you. My words before week 1 was that I was 63 and needed to get fit. By week 2 I was saying I was 63 and old enough to know better! You’ve broken the back of this. Well done.
THank you. I’ve had some lovely places to run - paths and sides of fields. Caught up with a horse (walking very slowly) on my final run!! No pavements and no dreaded treadmills. Very luck.
Wow, thank you. Well done you too - week 6 can be a real horror to some. Once I got to week 7 I realised I COULD do it. You will too! 3 weeks and you’ll be a graduate too.
Thank you. I’ll keep repeating week 9 for now (I’ll miss Sarah - and she said she’d miss me too!!). I want to get to 5k (done just under 4 and a half so not too impossible). Also want to eventually stop avoiding hills as I’ve tended to take the easy route. They’re not even hills to be fair. Little challenges - may even be brave and tackle a parkrun although that’s another challenge as I’ve not run in public (sides of fields don’t count!). I see you’re at the start. Keep it slow and trust the programme. However unlikely it seems you’ll be able to do it too. If you wobble just check into the forum. It’s amazing. Good luck.
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Graduation day 
My ‘Graduation Run’ and I did it.....and all my friends were there!!
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