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Completed w8 Run 1

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🙂 Found the run really hard I thought it would be easy only 3 more minutes but I struggled. I seem to find it harder because it was a lot warmer today is that even possible surely warmer should be easier phew🤔😱

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Maybe you were overdressed a bit? Then a run can feel harder. But it's also possible you ran a tad too fast. Or it was just not your day today. Everybody has bad days, you just forget about them and focus on the positive :). But hey, you did it!

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Thank you and yes I did it so that's a positive😀

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I had read your post before I went for my W7R3 run. During last two minutes, I was thinking how am I going to run for another 3 minutes next week.

I decided it would be impossible. 😀 But then week 7 - 25 minutes was impossible for me when I started out.

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Yes you are right I did think the same I didn't think I could do week 2 and now I am on week 8 and I did it thanks to the encouragement of the people on this site thank you 😀

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CouchphoenixGraduate

As a graduate I can tell you that some runs are harder than others, there’s no rhyme or reason that’s just the way it is. The hard runs take mental strength to complete but you did it, so well done, keep up the good work 👍

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Thank you

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