Need motivation!!!

[Mamakaz1956]

I completed week 9 in May this year but haven’t ran since !!! Wondering wether to start from wk 1 or do small runs till I can catch up with 30 mins any suggestions please

[mrrun Graduate]

I'd go all over again. Actually, l did go all over again. As for motivation? Why did you start running in the first place? That's your motivation.

[Mamakaz1956 Graduate in reply to mrrun]

I agree but easy strayed to the wayside kept putting off just needed a push

[mrrun Graduate in reply to Mamakaz1956]

My wife has similar attitude. I eventually said, 'look, you go outside or you stop, tired of you counting rain drops or wind strength'. She stopped.

[sTrongFuse Graduate]

I'd probably start at the beginning, but if you find that too easy, just advance through the weeks until you find your "natural" restart point. I suspect you'll probably find week 4 to be where you need to do all 3 runs again, especially to get you ready for W5R3.

Good luck and to keep us informed on you you are getting on.

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I found that coming on to the forum to report on runs really helped with motivation

They say that it takes 3 months to make a habit. So just keep going and you will soon find it starts to be fun👍🏃🏾‍♀️

[Buddy34 Graduate]

Maybe do 1 run from each week and see how you manage . If it's too much just start again . Good luck 😊

[gavinmitch Graduate]

I restarted on W5 a couple of weeks ago after completing early August. I did my first Parkrun yesterday which was easily the furthest I’d run but the most enjoyable as you’re running with people in exactly the same situation. Good luck

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

I’d start over... you know you can do it of course... and that gives you a couple of months to work out how to go forward from that graduation run. Set some goals for the future... book some events to train for etc.