W2R1 in the bag!

[sHAYM4N]

Struggled a little for motivation this morning, and set out later than usual (weird as I'd been looking forward to starting W2). Felt a bit of pressure on my knees starting the first run, did a 5.7mile dog walk yesterday - so suspect it could have been that, cleared up after a minute or so.

Didn't find the extra 30 seconds much of a jump, and felt I could have gone on longer. 3rd run was probably the hardest being uphill, but felt breathing was back to normal after a minute of the rest walk to go again.

Pace again probably too fast, tried not to think about it and just ran at what I felt comfortable at really. Find adding a bit of a spring helps when I'm running uphill.

This was the run where Laura talks about timing the breathing, had a go but felt like I was breathing in slowly and out too fast, tried to forget about it and think it went to roughly what she suggested anyway.

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Quick question, but how did people handle the weeks/rest days. Last week I started on a tuesday finished saturday, so only had the one rest day yesterday. Did this because mon-wed-friday would probably be my preference, but wonder if a 2 day weekend rest might dent my motivation if I kept it at that?

[Katnap Graduate]

W2R1 for me too! Started out before 6am. Very dark.

[IgaT Graduate]

I like to have 2 days rest although sometimes I want to run every day (which I don't)

I've never had a long period of run-rest-run-rest periods. I used to have 2 rest days more often as I was running 2 days a week. So whatever you feel works best for you.