๐Ÿ†๐Ÿคฉ๐ŸŽ‰Graduated!๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ†: My first post (only... - Couch to 5K

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๐Ÿ†๐Ÿคฉ๐ŸŽ‰Graduated!๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ†

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EthelTheAardvarkGraduate
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My first post (only lurked up to now), but this morning I did week 9 run 3 and even ran for an extra 5 mins to complete the full 5K ๐Ÿ˜Š

Never would have believed Iโ€™d be able to run this far - Iโ€™d always hated it, but after losing 3st with Slimming World I started this in January (when I thought Iโ€™d die after running for one minute) and now I can run a full 5K. I repeated week 3 and week 4 once each, which really helped.

Got to keep it up now - on to consolidation ๐Ÿ˜„

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Comfortnotspeed

Woo Hoo!!! Brilliant news!! Massive congratulations ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿคฉ

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Wean

Brilliant . Thats so inspiring . Will you do the 10k now?? I am just on week 1 .๐Ÿ˜‰

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EthelTheAardvarkGraduate in reply to Wean

Thank you :) I'm not sure - at the moment I'm just so happy with this!

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IannodaTruffeMentor

Congratulations on your graduation, fellow runner.

This guide to post C25k running may be helpful healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

Keep running, keep smiling

Congratulations ๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿ† that's awesome, well done ๐Ÿ‘

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RichGMcC

Brilliant! Well done Ethel!

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Cagsey1

Well done ๐Ÿ‘ such an achievement keep it up ๐Ÿ˜Š

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LittleIrelandGraduate

Fantastic. We'll done you โ˜บ

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TimoteaGraduate

That is wonderful! Did my final run but still way under 5k! Keep it up!

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WorkingathomeGraduate

Congratulations ๐Ÿฅณ massive well done and thanks for posting to inspire those of us behind you ๐Ÿ˜Š

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EthelTheAardvarkGraduate

Thank you everyone so much for your lovely comments!

Just a bit of background, I had treatment for a rather nasty stage 3 breast cancer nine years ago and put on a lot of weight. I still take a daily pill to prevent recurrence. Last year I finally managed to shed 3 st with the help of Slimming World, so just after my 54th birthday in December I decided it was time to finally bite the bullet and get fit. I started in January because it was dark most of the time, and drove somewhere to run so nobody would see me. I'm now perfectly happy to run through the middle of our village (where pretty much everyone knows who I am) in broad daylight.

In January I was about as unfit as it's possible to be, but this morning I ran 4.3k in 30 minutes, then reached 5k in 35.

So keep on going, you'll get there!

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GetfitokGraduate

Brilliant! Well done you on the running & weight loss ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿ‘

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D48PGraduate

Congratulations ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ…๐Ÿ˜Š

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