Week 9 Run 3...

[siwhite]

All done and dusted.

I'm very pleased with myself (obvs). Now to start the consolidation as well as follow the advice in IannodaTruffe's excellent post: healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

#keeprunning

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Congratulations siwhite on completing C25K with week 9 run 3 and graduating, I agree that IannodaTruffe posts are always excellent advice to all of us here on C25K.

To get your graduation 🎓 badge and the word GRADUATE 🎓 next to your username leave a message on the April graduate post in the pinned posts on the right side of the healthunlocked C25K home page and tell the administrators that you have ran W9R3 of C25K and graduated 🎓 🏃 😊

[siwhite Graduate in reply to AlMorr]

Done that. Thank you

[Julia187 Graduate]

Yay well done 👍🏼 Feels good doesn’t it?!

[siwhite Graduate in reply to Julia187]

It certainly does. Now onto consolidation mode

[Julia187 Graduate in reply to siwhite]

Any idea where you’re going to take your running after consolidation?

[siwhite Graduate in reply to Julia187]

Nothing concrete. I want to consolidate 5K (pace) and move onto 10K. In the long term full and half marathon perhaps. I’m still pretty tickled that I’ve run 5K in 33 minutes at the moment. What are your plans? We could be virtual training buddies 😃

[Julia187 Graduate in reply to siwhite]

Yes definitely, I need all the support I can get! I’m a way off 5k at the moment so I’m going to try and do a bit more each consolidation run to get me to 5k (I just made it over 4K this morning!) and then I’m pondering 10k, HM seems too far but then so did all of this!!

[siwhite Graduate in reply to Julia187]

Well that’s the point isn’t it? Running for any length of time any therefore any distance just seemed impossible 9 weeks ago. So why not 10K or a half? Maybe it’ll take a while to get there but the journey will be a blast 😃

[Julia187 Graduate in reply to siwhite]

I’m hoping it’s going to get a bit easier!

[siwhite Graduate in reply to Julia187]

It will, with effort 😀

[Buddy34 Graduate]

Congratulations on completing c25k you must be so pleased well done 😊😊👏👏

[siwhite Graduate in reply to Buddy34]

Thank you. I am, yes. The cheshire cat has nothing on me today

[DiscoRunner Graduate]

Fantastic! Many congratulations - it’s an amazing milestone - and you nailed it! Enjoy that buzz - you’ve earned it!

[siwhite Graduate in reply to DiscoRunner]

You're so kind. This is just the start of course. Many more miles to cover.

[DiscoRunner Graduate in reply to siwhite]

It is the start! These next weeks are interesting - just consolidating, but thinking of what parts you really enjoy and that helps take it to the next level, or do you want pace or duration next. I definitely found at the end of consolidating that the running was properly embedded in my life - can’t imagine not doing it now.

[Coco-Major Graduate]

Congratulations 🎉 well done..amazing achievement, you must be feeling pretty proud of yourself right now 😊

[siwhite Graduate in reply to Coco-Major]

Thank you. I am indeed. To think back to Week 1 and how even a minute seemed a long time, this just seems unreal.

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Many congratulations on your graduation fellow runner.

So you found that post.

Keep running, keep smiling.

[siwhite Graduate in reply to IannodaTruffe]

Thank you. I found that post, I've read that post, I've even pointed that post to other people. It's a good post

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Congratulations! Enjoy that consolidation, and all your future running adventures... once you’ve done celebrating of course. See you on your next start line.

[siwhite Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Thank you. I spotted some training stuff in Runkeeper earlier that looks like it might be good for consolidating my runs, so who knows where my next start line will be.