Having spent most of Saturday either travelling or hanging around airports I wasn't over-confident about running for 20 mins straight on Sunday. I headed down towards the lake (Achensee) and set off at a nice steady (for "steady" read "slow"!) pace. I followed the path until it appeared to be moving away from the lake and turned round without changing pace. I ran back beyond where I'd started and turned round again shortly after Laura told me that I had just 5 mins to go. And I did it! I was so pleased with myself I wanted to shout it from the rooftops. Unfortunately I didn't have an Internet connection at that point. But I'm telling you now!
To all the people who have yet to get to this point in the programme, I have to tell you that it is possible to go from W5R2 to W5R3, however unlikely it seems. Have faith in the programme. It really does work! And you'll feel so proud of yourself!
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Thanks for posting this. I'm on Week 5 now and have R2 tomorrow and R3 on Friday. I did wonder how I was going to go from running 5 mins to 20 mins but your comments have spurred me on.
It is pretty amazing but, as Laura said, it's more about the mental challenge than the physical. It also helps that I know that loads of people have done this before me!
Congratulations for doing the 20 minutes and thanks for what you wrote - I'm doing the 8 minutes tomorrow and the 20 on Friday and you've helped convinced it's possible. It's all in the head, isn't it - well, almost? I can "see" the 8 minutes, but not the 20 yet, but I'm sure that once I've done 8 then my imagination won't be so stretched. Good luck with the next hurdle!
The trick is to pace yourself. Having done it myself, I'm absolutely convinced that you can do it too. If you've done all the previous runs then you have done all the preparation you need. And you will feel really proud of yourself once you've done it.
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