Week 5 Run 3 - WOW

[Slushsteph]

Hello wonderful virtual friends!

As always, I felt so optimistic last night about planning on doing the run today. I knew I had a 6am call planned this morning with Australia, but mentally booked myself in to complete this run following the call- again, this was all my plan last night. Of course, when my alarm when off this morning at 5.30am and 10 new urgent issues seemed to have emerged at work despite a bank holiday weekend, my plan - or any time- for the run quickly went out the window. But I couldn’t shake the feeling of disappointment...and, for the first time in my 32 years, I gave up my one opportunity for a lunch / any form of break today to try and do the run. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to complete it; having ‘failed’ at my first attempts to both w1r1, w2r1, w3r1 and then w4r1 (at least I’m consistent!) I’ve got used to ‘second attempt’ success throughout my progression. However, lo and unbelievably behold, I DID IT. No stopping, no giving up, no ‘are my lungs actually on fire and I need to stop before 999 are called by a dog walker’ moments; I am both amazed, proud and in disbelief!! I genuinely couldn’t run for the 60 seconds just 5 weeks ago...so I am utterly gobsmacked at such progress!! When I wanted to give up, I thought of SassyF and her immense encouragement, of the people who sent me whinging emails at 3am this morning, of the people judging my snail pace but sat in their cars not moving, and of my Dad who I lost a few months ago and how he battled in his final days. Now I feel like a WINNER!! ❤️

Hope you all have an epic day!!!

[Devon_straggler Graduate]

You are a winner! Amazing progress! I think finding it hard in the early weeks makes the successful runs feel even better. Well done on battling through and enjoy feeling smug all day (probably all week if you're like me! ). Just don't set off to quickly for your intervals on the next runs - it's easy to feel you've cracked it and run too fast!

[Slushsteph in reply to Devon_straggler]

Thank you and excellent advice!! ❤️

[Instructor57 Graduate]

Great achievement, well done ! You'll be smiling all day now 😁

Just be mindful of week 6 runs 1 and 2 they often catch people out with going back to intervals !

[SassyF Graduate]

Utterly brilliant! I’m so pleased for you!

Well done - no stopping you now! 😎🤩👌🏼

[Slushsteph in reply to SassyF]

Sorry you’ve become my virtual coach 🤣 and thank you for your continued support!! I imagined you were there at one point saying ‘come on, you can keep doing this’ etc etc- much more encouraging than Michael who only congratulated me through my headphones after I’d finished!

[SassyF Graduate in reply to Slushsteph]

Hey - that’s fine! If I can help motivate you to have faith in yourself then I’m fine with that!

Heed the warnings on the next couple of runs!

Don’t be worried, don’t overthink them - just run slow & steady to get them done, if it gets tough - dig deep and shout louder than the gremlins! You’ve conquered them before and you did again today so now they’re frightened of you!

Week 6 - Let’s go! 😎

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

You are a winner Slushsteph, congratulations on completing run 3 of week 5, that is a milestone run with C25K, onwards and upwards to week 6 run 1 but be careful about that run as it catches out some people with the interval walks and runs after the non stop 20 minutes of W5R3 which you have just ran 🏃🏾

[John_W Graduate Ambassador]

Brilliant!

Nothing else in the program should faze you now

Crack on!