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Thank you to everyone who left me messages of encouragement last week. I did week 6 day 2 yesterday. I found it really tough, but did actually manage to complete it. All your words really helped. 🙏

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Thanks for the complements sjt00, congratulations on completing run 2 of week 6, that is the last run with interval walks and runs, now with run 3 of week 6 and the rest of the program it's running constantly starting with run 3 of week 6.

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Great job on the last intervals of the plan, I found them very tough! Now it’s into what you came here for... a nice long just running run... have a wonderful run 3... slow and steady, especially in the first 10-15 minutes. Then, you got this... enjoy closing it out.

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sjt00 in reply toUnfitNoMore

Thanks I think I try and go to fast to start with and then I find it really tough later🤪

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UnfitNoMoreGraduate in reply tosjt00

That’s how I used to run... and I got sucked into it again at parkrun on Saturday as it happens. As we start to run the subconscious brain doesn’t know what we are doing... and we can run a while without upping the breathing, 100m sprinters don’t even have to breathe. It takes a few minutes to get through this, the brain uses oxygen deficit as the trigger to crank all our systems up, and this can make the start really tough. It’s referred to as the “toxic 10” a lot. If we instead run that 10 easy, we speed up with no extra effort once the brain turns things up... and we still have that fast start we didn’t use for a faster finish. While that run may equate to the same average pace, I feel better after a slow start run. I did a guided run where the coaches made me stay on 4/10 easy effort and feel for the moment where I speeded up without upping the effort, it’s an amazing experience.

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sjt00 in reply toUnfitNoMore

Thank you for this info I’ll look into it hopefully can make use of it on my next run

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Markco93Graduate

Well done 😀 Keep up the good work, and we are always here if you want a bit chatter in the background 😎

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sjt00 in reply toMarkco93

Thanks your all so kind😊

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Well done , you did it we new you could 😊😊

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sjt00 in reply toBuddy34

😊😊😊

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Rebelsheep

Well done. I’ve yet to get there!

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sjt00 in reply toRebelsheep

Keep going it will all be worth it 😊

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