Week8 complete!

[Me_time]

Only 3 more runs to go!

Thank you to all who commented on my last post, it had put things in perspective for me. I took all your advise, suggestions, your personal experiences, your wise words on board.

I decided to change the park for tonight's run where I don't know the distances. Its one of my two most favourite parks and it is next door to work. Don't know why I never went there for run before. I have always gone there to take photos during Spring and Autumn. It has one of my fav trees that captures Autumn colours perfectly.

So I finished work, changed & straight to the park. Jogged at a easy pace & was actually happy to have jogged slow taking in the surroundings, spending time with my thoughts, fresh air, people watching..the things I used to love when walking.

Happy that for someone who didnt like running and never ran before, I jogged for 28mins !

Next week 30mins

5k will come eventually, hopefully 🤞

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate]

Congratulations on almost completing C25K, only 3 more runs until you graduate, good luck for your graduation run 🏃🏾 😊

[Instructor57 Graduate]

Great news.

Well done !

This says it all

"happy to have jogged slow taking in the surroundings, spending time with my thoughts, fresh air, people watching..the things I used to love when walking"

Enjoy week 9

[LanciaA Graduate]

Brilliant progress, congratulations. I hope you are feeling great.Best wishes for the next week.

[Birdlady64 Graduate]

So glad you had an enjoyable run like that. I saw your previous post but didn't reply as you'd already had all the advice you needed from everyone else.

All the things you said are a big part of why I fell in love with runnning - "taking in the surroundings, spending time with my thoughts, fresh air" etc.

Don't focus too much on the "5K". It's not the be all an end all.

Since restarting c25k I've not worried at all about time or pace, but just tried to enjoy every run and treat it as a gift. You don't realise how much it means until you lose it

[Me_time Graduate in reply to Birdlady64]

Agree with "You don't realise how much it means until you lose it". Thank you Birdlady64

[Giyraffi Graduate]

Well done me-time!!! Only 3 more runs🙂. I've just completed run 2 of week 8 and really struggled towards the end. Run 1 was a bit better. I was coming on here to say 28mins is probably the best i can achieve and won't carry on but then seeing your post has encouraged me to stick with it. I'll give run 3 a go before i give up. Enjoy week 9👏🏾👏🏾

[Me_time Graduate in reply to Giyraffi]

Hi Giyraffi , dont give up..we got this! Slow right down if needed to complete the run.

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

That sounds like a really great run, don’t worry 5k will come to you when it’s time. Once you’ve graduated and consolidated you will be out one day and it’ll all be going well and you will just run a bit further, that’s how it happened for me

[Me_time Graduate in reply to SueAppleRun]

Thank you SueAppleRun . That is very encouraging..I like to work towards a goal to stay motivated. I think instead of 5k, i m going to just stay with the goal to complete c25k. One step at a time

[SueAppleRun Graduate in reply to Me_time]

Good for you