W6R3 the proof is out there! 🏃‍♀️

[Mayanow]

After struggling with w6 runs 1-2 i went out yesterday evening disheartened, even after reading positive posts!

So, what i did -since it was all running- was too listen to a comic podcast. I yhought it would possibly help not to keep thinking how long i had and how hard it was.

Well it really worked! I actually ran for 27 minutes plus!!! I love laura but i can't say i enjoy the particular music... sorry about that.

Anyway i am VERY happy to say that YES it is doable!! I am now super sure i will reach graduation.

*Btw i listened to an episode of "My dad wrote a porn" and was laughing instead of focusing on managing the time. Please share other fun podcasts you've tried.

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I gave up on Laura's funny music in week 6 (although when I here the introduction now, I feel quite emotional ) I mostly listen to audio books. Lots of radio 4 comedy programmes are 30 minutes in duration which is perfect. Look for the Friday Night Comedy podcast

Well done on your run!

[Mayanow in reply to Hidden]

I agree: the intro music really gets me in a frame of mind. So i listened to the first walking 5 mins then switched to the podcast.

Thank you. I will try the radio 4 ones- they are on my subscription list!

Well done graduate! RESPECT 👩‍🎓

[Shakywakey Graduate]

Well done 👏👏. A great achievement. It’s always been music for me but I might try a podcast and see how that goes 😁

[Mayanow in reply to Shakywakey]

I love music but it has to be what i like. I just find the music on the podcast too indifferent.

Try an audio and let me know.

I was thinking i could explore other things too so i will get fitter AND wiser!!!!! 🤓

[Coffeedr1nker]

Well done! I've just competed run 3 week 6. I never thought I could do it but I did! I made a playlist of 6 songs totalling 25 minutes. That really kept me going. I chose songs that told a story so I was focussed on the lyrics. Job done😁

[Mayanow in reply to Coffeedr1nker]

Well done! Yes if i get round to it i could make MY playlist. You're right. I knew the episode was 30 mins long and thought i'd check every so often if i'd reached 25. Well, i never looked once and got close to the end at 28 mins roughly!

[KayBee1000 Graduate]

I too find listenzing to podcasts is the way to go, otherwise I concentrate on how much time I have left.

It is a little more annoying when Sarah M speaks over it though, because then I have to skip it back to the bits I’ve missed; when you’re listening to music it doesn’t matter so much.

I shall have to try that episode on my next run!

Well done.

[Mayanow in reply to KayBee1000]

You are so right! As it is mind over matter, it really helps to fool your sense of time. I really think interesting conversations do it. I don't know if an audiobook would do it? I tend to skip paragraphs with too much description. Can't do that whilst running!!

[KayBee1000 Graduate in reply to Mayanow]

I also like the Radio 4 podcasts; More or Less (where they investigate statistics etc that have been in the news - sounds a bit dry but is very interesting and funny), and Last Word (an obituary programme about people who have died that week who were newsworthy in some way).

I find that they keep my interest so I don’t concentrate on the time, and I learn something interesting too!

In the early weeks I listened to my own playlist - I never like anyone else’s music choices as much as my own!

[Mayanow in reply to KayBee1000]

Ok thank you! I will look those up also! Anything to train the mind too! 🤔

[southlundon Graduate]

I always thought I’d listen to music and had never used podcasts or audiobooks before I got onto week 8 of the programme but I find them far more diverting than music!

I like bbc radio 2’s confessions podcast and I’ve currently got Harry Potter 1 on audiobook which is brilliant as I’ve not read it since it came out 😀

[Mayanow in reply to southlundon]

Yes i thought of harry potter too. My daughter is a H U G E fan ( her room is a shrine to HP!) and i feel wrong not to have read them. Good idea!

Oh it's fun plotting your next companion to the run, right?

I'm off tonight on W7R1. Feeling excited !

[southlundon Graduate in reply to Mayanow]

Enjoy your run! 😅

[Bandit14 Graduate in reply to southlundon]

Thanks for this - never thought about other podcasts - I'm not much of a tech head but love 'confessions' - and it worked - got me through wk7 r1 😊

[southlundon Graduate in reply to Bandit14]

The danger is laughing too much and disrupting your breathing pattern 😆

[Mayanow in reply to southlundon]

Haha that nearly happened!

[TrickyRuns Graduate]

I'm a big podcast fan!

Some I would recommend:

Elis James & John Robins

The Guilty Feminist

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Enjoy

[Mayanow in reply to TrickyRuns]

Oh thank you for the suggestions. Goody goody! Lots to try out.

I ran W7R1 yesterday and time flew with the podcast. I love it! And i laughed a lot!!