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Doing the whole thing again – into week 4. Sorry Michael

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Coming back after injury or illness is tough, tougher than I expected. I have a mixture of feelings as I take myself through the programme again. I trust the programme as I know it works and I have every confidence that I’ll ‘graduate’ again. What’s been hard though, is shaking off the thought that I should be doing this a lot easier than I am. I think it’s partly my age (65) and I’m also heavier than when I did it the first time round. (I’m doing something about that and it’s slowly coming off – 4 pounds since I started the programme again). I tried changing coach and although I have a huge amount of respect for Michael Johnson as an athlete and commentator, I’m going back to Laura today. I couldn’t hear what he said over my music – Laura automatically turns the music down –and I thought he told me to slow down when actually he had said that I had a minute to go. I made up for it by running for an extra minute on my final run. It feels so good to be part of this programme again.

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Buddy34Graduate

Great on returning to c25k, you've done it before you'll do it again and I like Laura it was her that got me through c25k. Good luck 😊

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KatnapGraduate

Good luck!

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