W1R3 (well walk really) DONE! and I think I may have an inkling on how I am sabotaging myself. I noticed whilst doing my 'very brisk for me' walk that at times I am tensing up when I notice my knees starting to clack a bit and my stride getting too long. It sort of ruins 'the flow' or my gait so I concentrated on shortening my steps, picking my feet up a bit higher and breathing in with my nose and exhaling through my mouth, seems to be working.
The knee strengthening exercises after only 3 days are having a good effect. My knees are definitely feeling more mobile.
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In retrospect I feel a big part of my long struggle with Week 1 was just this, not the running but the walking sections in which I was trying to live up to some notion of pace instead of the basic idea which is that you keep moving. I feel a bit dim because the very reason I started C25K was because brisk walking wasn't something I could sustain. And still can't - it's easier to recover from a 10k run than half an hour's brisk walk, assuming I could do the latter at all.
Which is a long winded way of saying, yes, slow down and loosen up on the walks, they are for recovery.
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