w3r2 sorted!

[Captainlokii]

that one wasn't to bad bar a ferocious pug deciding he was going to chase me for the first 3 minutes lol.

reading ahead on the app im slightly confused as to why week 5 jumps so fast from like 10 minutes to 20 it seems like a leap

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Great run. Dogs really do have a natural tendency to run with people, but they don’t understand the plan so like to try to speed us up... well done managing the run there.

Week 5 doesn’t leap from 10... it goes from 2 8s and a brisk walk in the middle, which total more than 20 minutes and steps up to a confidence building 20 minute run... you’ll be ready for it... trust the plan.

Don’t give week 5 much thought... read ahead by all means, but you can only run them one at a time... week 9 also looks pretty daunting huh? 30 minutes? No way! Well... when you get to the start of that week it’s just 2 extra minutes... same here... close out week 3... be proud that you are then a third of the way through this plan... then be ready for W4R1... nothing else. I’m intending to run a marathon... it’s impossible for me to do that tomorrow, so I’ll run my run and it will be part of the journey that I’ll start to celebrate when I cross that distant start line with 26.2 miles to go... part of making the impossible happen, so I’ll love tomorrow’s run and many more at that point. Believe in yourself, spend more time looking at what you’ve achieved than what is to come... you’re doing really well.

[Captainlokii in reply to UnfitNoMore]

its always little dogs. i have 3 giant breeds and those lazy buggers wont run anywhere unless theres food at the end destination. this dog was just an asshole.

it just seems like a big leap from that to no brisk walkto catch your breath a little

lol im my own worst enemy i HAVE to know whats coming or i bottle it. give me the scariest task in the world and as long as i know what its outcome is im cool with it. lol r3 of this week is gunna suck its after rugby practice so imma want to die

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to Captainlokii]

Well then, week 5 isn’t the scariest thing in the world.. so you’ll be cool with it 🤪

When we lost a rugby game at school we had to lap the pitch in 60 seconds... if we didn’t manage that we had 60 seconds of rest and had to go again... so run 3 will be that at worst, but without a minimum pace... you can do it.

I never want to get into a run with a Dalmatian, they can run all day long and still want some more! Smaller dogs can be a big pain though, they’re a trip hazard amongst other things!