Have just completed my fourth 30minute run since graduating last Thursday. I stillstruggle a lot in the first 5-10minutes to get into a good rhythm but today’s run was the best yet. Felt so relaxed just running away at my own pace for the next 20minutes.
Focus for next week is to try and increase the length of the run.
Happy Running!
Well done, how lucky you are to be progressing like this 🙌 enjoy!
Toxic ten or toxic however long...take it gently and maybe take a look at the pinned post.. What's next.
Ah, good old toxic ten! I found that concentrating on distance helped me at first, I wasn't thinking about time when I did this. Just add a little more each week and before you know it, 5k will sail past as a mid way stop gap.
I did a run the other week that demonstrated the toxic 10 to me. Had to start off at 3/4 out of 10 effort and just run slowly... the coach on it said that I could probably feel my pace increase without putting any more effort in... and I did. Did the whole run at the same effort but negative splits, pretty amazing experience.
Enjoy those runs, increasing one run is gonna give you a lot more stamina.
Thank you for sharing. I feel more positive reading this, as I’ve struggled with this week - w9 R1 and R2 done so far, but not that enjoyable, just felt so hard. Although I was battling with the wind and rain on both runs which didn’t help.
I'm as shocked as anyone to hear me say that I now enjoy running. When I started in week 1 those 60 seconds runs were killers. I felt so bad, didn't think I would ever get to week 9 and running for 30minutes. I stuck with the program though as I really wanted to make a change in myself, it really is such an amazing felling to know where I started and to now be running and actually enjoying the run and the sense of achievement afterwards.
Stick with it and I'm sure it will start to feel good for you also.
Thank you!
The obligatory graduation post 
Post Graduation Blues
Post Graduation
Post graduation update
Graduation and first post graduation run. 
