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[ButtercupKid]

This is entirely AlMorr’s fault: a mantra for all you graduates out there:

Congratulations and celebrations

When I tell everyone I’ve done C25k,

Congratulations and jubilation,

Who knew my road to health was just a run away ?

Everyone thought I’d always be

Just a couch potato,

And at the start I had to take

Every level real slow,

But that was in the bad old days,

Now they can’t knock it -

I’m like a rocket

With my trainers on !

Congratulations etc and repeat as long as the people around you can bear it. It really needs a second verse - feel free to join in. I can’t be the only mad poet out here !

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

WONDERFUL, I love❤️ that, I was singing along to the song Congratulations by Cliff Richards😊😊ButtercupKid, certainly should be the theme song for ALL graduates who have completed C25K. 🏃🏃👍👍

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Completely agree with you ! 😁

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

😊🏃🎓🎈Got a new song you could prose too regarding all the runners here on C25K. Listen to a recording on YouTube of the 1965 song "Keep on Running" by :The Spencer Davis Group :see if could possibly put new lyrics to it suitable for all of us runners on this site as I know you like to do that in your spare time.

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Actually I make this stuff up when I’m out running - keeps my mind off my protesting muscles ! I don’t know that tune very well, which would make it harder, so no promises this time 😉

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

Perfectly OK for me ButtercupKid, you say that when you are out running your muscles protest, perhaps you are running too fast, if you slow down a little you might find that your muscles won't protest too much or a least as much as you say they do. Have you graduated? if not, which week are you on?

I began C25K week 1 on the 18th April and graduated exactly 2 months later on 18th June. After that, I ran 5 postgraduate consolidation runs but always stopped at exactly 30 minutes, I wish I hadn't done that and continued on to complete 5K as I have yet to run that distance. After the 5th postgraduate run I thought to myself that the next run I will go the full 5k distance but 8 hours after my 5th consolidation run I developed a sore right hip which stopped all my running for 6 weeks. My hip is no longer sore so I have been rerunning some of the runs just to get back into the habit of running, this morning before Storm Ali got going I reran W5R2 with no sign of a sore hip. Once I get to 30 minutes I will definitely continue to run and hopefully get to 5k, based on my previous runs that should be in around 35 minutes.

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

You sound like you’re doing really well yourself. Well done for keeping going 🏅

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

I’m on my third repeat of week 1 ! My muscles ache because I’m carrying literally an extra person in fat (I call it Ethel), and it’s physically impossible for me to go fast ! I’ve been doing the runs at normal walking/brisk walking, but this week I’m managing to jog the first ten seconds of the runs. To me that’s massive progress 😄

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

Well done ButtercupKid, you are doing well in your 🏃 journey 😊, that is massive progress regarding your first 10 seconds of jogging🏃😁😊. I understand that you come from North East England, who knows perhaps next year you could 🏃in the Great North Run.

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Thanks, AlMorr. I’m actually in the NE of the UK, not the NE of England, but they have races up here in the frozen wastes too 😄

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

Well you're in NE Scotland, I am down in Central Scotland, dead centre in Cumbernauld, I use that geographical centre to my advantage as I can travel east/west to where I want to run. I ran W5R3 around Lintithgow Loch east of where I live and W9R3 west of where I live along the promenade at Helensburgh.

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Perfect location for running ! Good to have all those options.