W5R2 - BIG smiley face on the app!

[Amerynthe]

Yesterday morning, when looking ahead to the running plan for that night's W5R2, my brain played tricks on me. It told me that I would be running 5, walking, running 8, walking, then running 5. I was cautiously optimistic and all day told myself that I could do it. A colleague who is an ex-military man and runs every lunchtime brought me in a book about brain training for running and I read a little bit of that and reinforced my confidence. By the time I actually went out for my run and realized I'd got it wrong, and I was expected to run 8 minutes, walk 5 and then run 8 minutes, my confidence and self-belief was so high that I just shrugged off the surprise, told myself I could do it, and set off.

And I did it! Yes, me! 58, 5 stone overweight - running a total of 16 minutes! Tomorrow night's run is 20 minutes. Brain training has already started. Every time I think of the run I just tell myself, 'I can do it' before any anxiety or doubt creeps in. And if, for any reason, I can't do it tomorrow night, I'll do it at the weekend.

Watch this space!

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Great job. The power of positive thinking can only help with anything we do in life. Enjoy that 20, you and the book are right, you can do it.

[Newborn_horse Graduate]

Amazing, Amerynthe! I'll have to try some of that self talk to down out the doubts. Best of luck for your next run, looking forward to hearing about how you smashed it! 😊

[SlowLoris]

Good post. A lot of people don't appreciate the power of positive thinking.

[CarolineHales]

I am on exactly the same run as you. And I felt the same too.... 8 minutes, what the hell??? But yes I did it too!! Well done us.... my next run is Friday, I haven’t looked yet to see what it is... 😬

[Bloodhound1]

I like brain training my approach was to swear a lot at my legs. All though now I am down to one final run I am finding that simply having the target is enough to keep me going