The music made me forget I was running! Anyone else feel the same?

[PoppetPandy]

Good Morning everyone. I started week 2 last night. Tbh I was absolutely dreading running for longer than a minute. I didn’t think to much I just thought I’d put music on in the background, as long as I could still hear Sarah Millican I thought it would be fine.

Well I reached the 1 min 30 seconds reached before I actually expected. On week 1 I was forcing and willing myself to make it to the 60 seconds.

I think the difference was I couldn’t hear myself becoming out of breath or my pace slowing down.

Whilst running I passed 2 people and 2 shopkeepers locking up. I always have an imagine of people shouting to me ‘I am walking faster than you are running!’. Actually people probably wouldn’t be so mean, I am just self conscious a the moment. I didn’t hear anyone or anything, I was just enjoying running to the music and the little bit of head wind cooling me down. No sounds of my breath no judging my feet slowing down.

I feel great this morning.

Is it just me or did anyone else find the music really helped?

[Buddy34 Graduate]

Well done and yes music really does help , for me anyway I've had it in my ears since I started c25k and wouldn't be without it 😊😊

[Debston Graduate]

I never listen to music when running but you're making me think that I should try it! It might be the music that helped you or it could just be that your stamina has improved since last week, either way, well done you!

[Tkaye Graduate]

I’ve always run with music, my only worry is could I do it without?

[Woo_woo999]

A friend recently told me she runs while listening to a podcast so I thought I might try this too, anything for a distraction I think, 90% of my running ability is psychological I’m sure!!

[backintime Graduate]

Yes yes yes...I love my music when I'm running. I know I could listen to nature, but I can do that in my garden, I like some tunes when I'm running

[Oldgirlruns Graduate]

See - we said you could do this, didn’t we?! I didn’t have music for the first 3 weeks, then decided I’d try it and found I quite enjoyed it - had my downloaded music on shuffle and heard all sorts of things I hadn’t listened to in ages. Then on my last run, the music didn’t appear - not sure why, probably didn’t start it and Strava going in the right order or something technical like that. So I ran( sorry, joffled) along in the quiet and quite enjoyed that as well. Moral of this rather long tale? Don’t get too worried about having or not having background noise! I think. Oh, and I quite often get walkers passing me when I run - but I soon catch them up in the walking bits heh heh!

[PoppetPandy in reply to Oldgirlruns]

Ha ha you did indeed, I will trust you long-timers from now on!

[Oldgirlruns Graduate in reply to PoppetPandy]

Not me chief, I got to week 7 then spent a month on the injury couch and now I’m back on it again at week 5 (2TR - where 2TR stands for 2nd time round!). So call me relative newbie!

[Getfitok Graduate]

Music really helps me, I’m constantly adding to my playlist which means all the songs are favourites. It takes my mind off the running 😂