You can't take the graduate badge away from me! - Couch to 5K

Couch to 5K

132,411 members158,563 posts

You can't take the graduate badge away from me!

Eisleychick profile image
EisleychickGraduate
8 Replies

Monday, I was ready to retire from running and turn in my pretty graduate badge. Horrid run but I realize now what I did wrong. I had a bad work day, was angry and frustrated and didn't focus that anger on my run and technique. So I ended up giving up.

Fast forward to tonight...after running my second 5k, I feel so much better, great, confident, happy dance danced. I ran a sub 40 5K and I walked part of it. Yep, it may look or sound funny to those people who try to run a sub 20 5K, but I'm proud of my 39:52 time. After figuring out I've probably only run 35 times in total since March, I'm super happy with that time. Yep, I'm going to brag and brag and brag and I don't care if you don't want to hear it. I ran my heart out and loved every minute of it....well almost.

If you're still in the training stages, I just want to say, stick with it. I'm learning that we all have different capabilities, etc. but as long as you get out there and run, you're still going faster than that person on the couch. That was what I kept telling myself tonight. Well that and pretending there was a scary clown running behind me and if I stopped and walked for too long he would get me. :)

Written by
Eisleychick profile image
Eisleychick
Graduate
To view profiles and participate in discussions please or .
8 Replies
TJFlute profile image
TJFlute

Retire fom running!?!!! You can't ever do that now or the scary clown will definitely get you ;)

debbzi profile image
debbziGraduate

Scary clown? Excellent motivation trick. As for your times, I'm very happy to get sub-40 at the minute too. We've all come a long way. xxx

SnowyOwl profile image
SnowyOwl

Well done , just gotta keep going :-)

jenniej profile image
jenniejGraduate

That is fantastic. My aim is to actually do 5k (I'm up to 4k now in 32 minutes which I'm so proud of), so to me 5k in under 40 minutes is absolutely amazing. Well done you!

handstand profile image
handstandGraduate

Nearly spit out my coffee when i got to the part about the clown. Haha, love your endurance and you are spot on about just getting out there. You brag all you want, girl!

Eisleychick profile image
EisleychickGraduate in reply to handstand

Thank you HS for the encouragement. And especially thank you for the image of the almost coffee spitting. I was picturing this on my dreaded drive to work this morning and burst out laughing. It made my drive in that much better. :)

jomcc4 profile image
jomcc4Graduate

The clown will never catch you because he will trip on his ridiculously big shoes!

KANdoit profile image
KANdoit

BRAG AWAY and enjoy that feeling. Scarey Clown would need to do C25k before it could catch you and by then it might be happier and less scary an just want to join in a braggy dance too!

You may also like...

Please take away my graduate :(

hard time and wound up stopping running, and gaining all of it back. I've been very down, I don't...

NOVEMBER GRADUATION BADGES... YOU DID IT!!!!!

you your richly deserved badge. We will try not to leave you waiting too long as we know how great...

Away from Home in Graduation Week

blog, if I tell you all that I'm going to run when away from home then I'm far more likely to do it...

Graduated!!! Can't quite believe it!

breathless running up the stairs back then and W1R1 nearly killed me! Tonight I completed W9R3 and...

Update from yesterday: I graduated!

rather than how much time I was running. Well, today I decided no matter how far I ran, I was just...