So, as planned I went out this morning and completed W2R3 (milestone one). Also, as I don't work weekends, I decided to treat myself to a lie-in, eventually leaving out about 2 hours later meaning it was getting quite light so someone might see me (milestone two!)
I don't know why, but although I did complete the run, today didn't go as well as usual. Maybe the lie-in meant I wasn't so well mentally prepared? It started off badly as I left home & switched on the podcast which announced that this was week three and that I should not start that until I'd completed weeks one and two. So I had to stop that, find the C25K app and start week 2 run 3 on that (I can't navigate around my podcast app without my reading glasses!) I did complete everything to the letter but found the runs harder than last time (Wednesday) even though I forced myself to run more slowly than I wanted to. I had hoped to make my final run 3 minutes as a test for next week but by the time I'd reached two minutes I was running out of steam, so stopped there. I'm not downhearted, I have fully completed week 2 now which is certainly something I couldn't envisage a few weeks ago, I just need to counter the trepidation I'm currently feeling about the 3 minute runs I have to complete next week. I think I'll just spend the next two days telling myself to slow down, and then slow down some more...