Finished, for now

[henacynflin]

I didn't think we'd do it, but finally we did the last run today. Still a fair distance away from 5km on 30 mins, but you never know what the future holds.

[Beachcomber66 Graduate]

Well done henacynflin. It took me a year to get to a 30 minute 5k. I was 67 at that point. I focussed on long slow runs in that first year; 10k plus was easily achieved and I am sure the strength and stamina built up in the process helped me to pick up pace over time. 👍

[henacynflin Graduate in reply to Beachcomber66]

Thanks, that is good to hear. Nice to know that even at 66 there is a chance I might manage it

[Instructor57 Graduate]

Congratulations on your graduation 😁👍🎉🎉🎉Don't forget to claim your Graduate badge here .

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Then take a look at this post for running after C25K.

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P.S

Don't worry about 5K in 30 minutes!

Only around 10% achieved that by graduation (some of which ended up injured !)

Your best development will come from running 80% of your runs at a conversational pace !

Enjoy consolidation

[MrsLydiaWickham Graduate]

Congrats!! 👏🎉

[RunnerLauren Graduate]

Congratulations!! I also completed my last run this week 😁

You did amazingly 👏🏼👏🏼

[henacynflin Graduate in reply to RunnerLauren]

Well done! I hope, like me, you have that warm feeling of satisfaction 👍😊

[Bingles Graduate]

Well done! I think 4.86 is great.

[smokeysmoke Graduate]

I did W9R1 on Friday and I think my distance was 4.3. I don’t expect to be at 5k by the end

[henacynflin Graduate in reply to smokeysmoke]

Tantalisingly closer though

[smokeysmoke Graduate]

I can barely believe 2 more runs to go!

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Really well done. The important thing is the 30 minutes. Just think back on when you could barely do a minute.

[henacynflin Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Oh I remember well taking a sneaky peak at the next run and being shocked that there was a nightmare '3min' run