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I can’t believe I am writing this but I’ve just run for 25 minutes without stopping. I am wondering why I left it to age 60 before I started running. πŸ˜‚ I absolutely love running and thanks so much for all the encouragement and help of this forum Plus Sarah keeping me on track.

Here’s to week 7

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Congratulations on completing run 3 of week 6, you are now OFFICIALLY a RUNNER, well done, onwards and upwards to week 7 πŸƒπŸΎ.

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Instructor57Graduate

Congratulations on your first 25 minute run ! πŸ‘On to the fun runs now 😁

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Instructor57

Hopefully

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Instructor57

Thank you

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AH21MMGraduate

Yes how did we all wait so long??? Better late than never and huge thanks to this amazing forum!

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to AH21MM

I agree such a lot of great advice

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Congratulations you are a runner

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to SueAppleRun

Yeh - goodness can’t believe it

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SueAppleRunGraduate in reply to Lola-bear

Big grins all round

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FrencGraduate

Well done Lola-bear, that’s brilliant 🀩. Best of luck with week 8! πŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒβ€β™€οΈ

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Frenc

Thank you

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BaddieThePirateGraduate

Woohoo! Well done πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to BaddieThePirate

Haha thank you 😊

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CressidaBGraduate

Congratulations. Amazing achievement. πŸ‘I

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to CressidaB

Thank you

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Rain_runnerGraduate

Well done πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ˜Š

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Rain_runner

Thank you

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Justinbs

I’ve just finish this run too. I can’t believe it either!!

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Justinbs

I know it’s amazing how the body responds

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Penguingirl1Graduate

Well done. I have this run to do this week.

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Penguingirl1

Well done you too

Amazing achievement I cannot wait to be where you are! ❀️

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to

You will get there, I’ve had a few weeks out due to a heel problem and followed the advice given by this forum,? It really does work - good luck on your runs

Thankyou

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JaffajayGraduate

Well done Lola-bear!!! I finished W6R3 yesterday afternoon - absolutely amazing. Keep on keeping on - good luck with W7!!!

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Lola-bearGraduate in reply to Jaffajay

Well done you too. Yes week 7 starts tomorrow

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