W5 run 3 🤔

[Crossruncrazy]

Hi all! Just completed week 4 and feel great. I’ve had a sneak peek at what is waiting for me in week 5. How do you run for 20 minutes?

[Helenmichellej]

Yes I thought about this all week till I got to it but Sarah told me all the work I’d been doing meant I could run for 20 minutes so I believed her and went for it! You can do it - just don’t start too fast!

[Crossruncrazy in reply to Helenmichellej]

Thanks 😊

[GermanRunner Graduate]

Very slowly! You'll be surprised, you can do it.

[Crossruncrazy in reply to GermanRunner]

Thanks 😊

[LeeU Graduate]

Ok, I'm going to ask you a short series of questions to help you with this:

Question 1: How did you feel about the first 5 or even 8 minute run you did?

Question 2:Which part of your body knows ANYTHING about time, is it your legs, cardio-vascular system or part of your brain?

Question 3: When you think about 20 minutes what is so daunting about it? Are you as daunted about a 20 minute bath or a 20 minute brisk walk?

I can almost guarantee that you had doubts about the first 5 or 8 minute run you did.

There is only a small part of your brain that worries about time, the rest of it and the rest of your body doesn't care about time. You ask your body to do something and it takes care of the rest.

Believe it or not, a 20 minute brisk walk can be worse that a 20 minute slow jog, they may be around the same speed so will ask roughly the same things from your body.

What I'm trying to get you to understand, the program has prepared your body, each run you have done so far has prepared your body for the next one. Every time you have asked your body to do x it has plus in the background it has increased muscle mass on the muscles that you asked it to use.

The ONLY part of the 20 minute thing that concerns you is in your head, this is more psychological than anything else, yes it's a longer single than you've done before but just believe in yourself and the program and go slow and steady.

Above all, enjoy it.

[Crossruncrazy in reply to LeeU]

😊😊

[PurpleJessie]

I just did it this morning.... blocked out all negative thoughts and just went with it. After 5 mins I thought ‘crap I can’t do it’ but then remembered I ran longer than that the day before! So switch your head off and you can do it!! You’ll fee so proud after!!!!

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

First of all you read this healthunlocked.com/couchto5... then you reassess exactly what you have achieved over the last few weeks and begin to believe in yourself and your icredible body, which is developing with every run.