20 minutes!!!!!

[limberlou]

After delaying for half of the morning, sitting with a cat in my lap, watering seeds in greenhouse, prepping veg, and generally not running I had a text from my daughter to say SHE had just run, what a lovely morning it was and if I wasn’t going to run did I want a nice long walk this afternoon.

I was almost putting it off until tomorrow then I looked at the forecast ( black clouds and rain for Monday ) do I put my big girl pants on ( plus leggings and tee shirt of course ) and I got out there. I’ve been putting it off by repeating wk5r1 four times and run 2 another three times but today I bit the bullet and loaded the run3 podcast.

It’s been so long that I was doubting myself and thinking “ I can always walk if I need to….” but I didn’t need to. I ran a different route to usual, or in the other direction if you will , to try to keep my mind off how long it was. The pavements were nice and dry, no wheelie or recycling bins in the way, hardly any pedestrians and I actually found myself enjoying it and was quite surprised when Laura said I’d run for 5 minutes!! The second 5 went just as quickly and then just after halfway I turned around and headed back again. I found that, after I glanced and saw it was 17 mins, the last 3 mins was hard but I knew I could do it. And I did!!!

Daft isn’t it that I have run for far longer in the past but todays run seems like a milestone in my recovery!! Looking forward to week 6 now. Nice shower when I got home and I might do some batch cooking now for the week ahead. I always feel more motivated and energised after a run.

and I’m glad to see my breathing is back to normal so much quicker now

[Fionamags Graduate]

That was a great run - and it sounds like it was a joyful one too! Onwards ho - the end of week 6 is another corker - continuous runs from then on. (But of course you know that ... )

[limberlou Graduate in reply to Fionamags]

Yup, “ looking forward to it” …. Yeah right!!

[Fionamags Graduate in reply to limberlou]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 you know you want to.

[PeggySusi Graduate]

Fantastic! Well done for getting out.. I know exactly what you mean about everything else you have to do getting in the way, but you did it!

I’m still two weeks behind you even though you have repeated runs.. hoping to do week 4 run 1 this afternoon, when I’ve got some digging and moving plants etc. out of the way..🤞😀

Have fun on week 6.. for sure you know you can do it..🏃🏻‍♀️🙂