I’ve done the runs in week 7 four times now and can’t see me moving on to W8 anytime soon. I’m literally done after 25mins.
I have said I will do W7 again, but if, from somewhere, I find the energy, I will run say 26 mins and build up.
Would I be better off attempting W8 and if I have to walk the last few mins, so be it?
Can’t decide if this would feel more of a failure than completing the W7s and sticking an extra min on it.
All psychological I know!
Just slow right down..and more so..and then more.
Relax....land lightly....look around..and just run..we will be right there beside you..I will be the one whispering slow Nd steady!
you owe it to yourself to try the next run. You might totally surprise yourself. Think how proud you will be when you complete it. Try slowing down even more and believe in your ability to hear positive thoughts not the doubt's. Good luck!
No, you don't use the f word here on C25K F (fail) perhaps your pace is too fast, the reason why you can't run longer than 25 minutes, I know that there is a difference between the two times, when I was doing C25K I noticed the difference between 28 minutes of week 8 and the 30 minutes of week 9, I just ran that little bit slower, you do that with week 8.
Thanks everyone. I’m still undecided.
I don’t seem to be able to slow it down, haha. It’s either walking or running?, but I can give it a go.
do you listen to music when you run? Why not make a playlist with an upbeat song for the additional few minuets
Thanks. Yes, I listen to the radio as I’m trotting around. That way, I get to be surprised by the songs that comes on, haha.
You can do it, you’ve got this fat 🙂. Since graduating, some runs I manage the 5k that I’ve worked up to, sometimes my mind wins and I can’t! I’ve started listening to audible books rather than music and am finding the time flies by better than music; who’d have thought! Don’t give up, you will be flying high when you finally do it.
It is all codology you know, your body has decided it can only run for so long therefore you must fool it! When I really don’t want to run I tell myself just a little jog for 20 min won’t hurt, I give myself permission to stop when I’ve had enough and walk if I want. Surprisingly enough that works for me, instead of painfully striving for a goal I find myself thinking ‘well now I’m out here I might as well see how much I can do’ before you know it I’ve done my 30 mins and feel smug.
You are right it’s psychological, set sight goals not time, eg that tree, the house with the red door , just past the next bend etc . Visual goals have helped me at times...
I do hope you manage to try the next step you’ll be quite astonished at your ability - good luck
I don't know whether it would help but when I did the C25K first time around (reached Week 8 but had to take a long break), I was getting frustrated too with the long runs which seemed so difficult. So I put on a playlist of four to five minute songs I loved so the run was being broken up into manageable segments and I kept telling myself, oh, one song down, four more to go, and so on. Also, I downloaded Runkeeper and had the drill sergeant yelling at me (and I mean literally, he would keep telling me he was not my grandmother and he wasn't going to bake me any cookies!) every five minutes with current pace and distance - turned out I was underestimating the pace I was running. I was hitting a little over five miles per hour which for me was too fast (complete beginner runner at 5'0") so I slowed down to around 4.5 and even less, because my goal was time, not speed. Those two things did a lot to help get over the long runs the first time around.
W7R3 😩
couldnt do it :( w7r3 ....... twice 
w8/w9
W7R3 struggling 
W7R3 good fun
