week 2 2nd run

[Sparkles22]

well up early and weather perfect weird though I was a lot slower today

No idea why 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[Parcelrunner]

Well done on your early morning run. Dont stress about speed. Remember that slow is really good for you as you start your running journey.There is no point puffing and panting and hating every minute because you are going too fast.

Well done 👏 ✔️

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate]

Well done on successfully completing another run! Parcelrunner is absolutely right. Speed is irrelevant. Slow and steady is best. As long as you’re running at a conversational pace where you can speak in full sentences out loud, it honestly doesn’t matter how fast that it.

Some days you’ll naturally be faster than others-it can depend on all sorts of things, like the terrain, how rested you are, the weather, what you’ve eaten, how hydrated you are, your mood…. Sometimes you can’t even work out why you were faster or slower. Couch to 5k isn’t the time to worry about that. Depending on what sort of running you want to do, it may never be the time to worry about that!

Good luck for the next run! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

[Sparkles22 Graduate in reply to MissUnderstanding]

thank you for your support to be honest I’ve never been as honest as I have today failure doesn’t run in our family but I want to change that and say hey I didn’t do as good today

Thank you once again

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate in reply to Sparkles22]

This run wasn’t a failure. Not even close. What makes you think that it was? Your aim was to complete it. You did! That’s a massive success. Even if you hadn’t finished it, you would have got yourself out there and done something-every time you show up to run that’s a success. There’ll be days where it feels great and days when it’s a slog. Sometimes you’ll feel like you can run forever. Sometimes ten minutes feels like an eternity. Success isn’t only measured in one way.

There are no failures on this forum-only runners on a journey. 🏃‍♀️❤️💪

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

That's great, run done and rest of day to do other things, as the others say, don't worry, fast or slow, slow wins every time

[Sparkles22 Graduate in reply to SueAppleRun]

thank you very much it was hard to write that this morning

As failure isn’t good in our family

But I am changing that hopefully thank you

[Instructor57 Graduate in reply to Sparkles22]

Change that mindset !It was not a failure

[SueAppleRun Graduate in reply to Sparkles22]

The only failure is staying on the couch, and even then it's not called failure unless it goes on forever, if it's just a few days it's called resting 😀 and if you want to know what slow looks like come run with me on an average day, anyone would beat me, but with perseverance I can now run for almost 2 hours, burn almost 1000 calories and have the widest smile, when I was at your stage I had little old ladies walking pass me, and they'd say things like, come on dear put more effort in and my in my head answer would contain things like f**** o** but we don't swear on here 😜

[Sparkles22 Graduate in reply to SueAppleRun]

😂 that’s brilliant and wow look at you go that’s amazing 🤩

Thank you for your reply it means a lot

[SueAppleRun Graduate in reply to Sparkles22]

Thank you, I did begin to think I was nagging a bit, but don't think about speed, think about time, speed comes later or not at all, slow and steady is the way to go, just as an aside interest, running a mile which is 1.6 kilometres burns roughly 100 calories, and that's whether you run really slow and it takes around 15 minutes or whether you are a sprinter and run it in 4 minutes, so over time you will run a load of miles and burn not many more calories but you will be fitter, stronger and more toned, and as it's early days for you a tip that helped me hugely was do squats, do 10 or 5 and do another 10 next day and you'll soon find 10 is easy, there are quite a few if us admit to doing squats while brushing our teeth and another 10 while the kettle boils for our morning tea

[Instructor57 Graduate]

As strange as it may seem .

'Running slowly makes faster runners'

[Sparkles22 Graduate in reply to Instructor57]

thank you I will keep that in my mind 😊

[Roxdog Graduate]

It sounds as though things are going well! I wonder though if it's necessary to track your speed at this point. I find that tracking can result in me overthinking! At the moment, the aim is to complete the programme. Although I might have misunderstood, maybe you just felt as though you were running more slowly.Either way, as others have said, it's all about slowly increasing the length of the runs. Best of luck.

[Andy6659 Graduate]

Weather not the best I will say

[DesertTrailRunner]

I totally agree with those who say don’t stress/worry about speed.

The running program that got me started in 1976 put a lot of emphasis on the advice that if a person is running for the sake of health, they should keep track of either time or distance, but not both.

If you keep track of both, then you will push yourself to go faster and you will get injuries.

Speed is keeping track of both time and distance.