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Smashed it! Very pleased with that run! Shoe laces came undone on my first ins so stopped just to do them up, then had to stop to cross the road on the way back, but other then these completed both runs! Not sure what is happening to me as I actually quite enjoyed that and looking forward to the next one-I have peeked and that’s a bit scary!

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You know *Week 4* was the hard bit don't you? That was the biggest jump in TOTAL running in the whole program from 9 minutes in Week 3 to a whopping 16 minutes!

Now that you've done W5R2 (well done!) you now have 157 minutes of running under you belt. Surely enough to ready your body for a 20 minute jog! W5R1 is a total of 15 minutes running. W5R2 is 16 minutes, so 20 minutes is perfectly doable, as *thousands* of users here will attest.

Remember my mantra: every run you've done prepares you for the next one, It's very simple but true. As ever with W5R3 worries... it shows (as said above) the body is ready but the mind is not! Yes, your body has been prepared for this... as it has for every run so far.

Here's a bit about Week 5 Run 3:

healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

good luck! (not that you need it)

John

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DaisyCL in reply toJohn_W

Thank you John, will have a read..

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Well done! Don’t be scared of R3, you’re ready for it......just take it slowly and you’ll be fine 👍😁

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Papillon17Graduate

Well done treat the next one the same fluids and run nice and slowly you can do this. Good luck.

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