Woo-hoo!!! :-) And a 30 minute playlist.

[Mitts]

W9R1 Playlist:

Coldplay Viva la Vida

Limahl Neverending story

Desireless Voyage Voyage

Uriah Heep Lady in Black

REM Losing my religion

George Michael Careless Whisper

30 minutes exactly, you have to listen to George right up to the last whisper. I was about 50m from the end of the woods then so I ran them a bit faster - we won't call it a sprint... - and then walked home.

AND - according to geodistance.com - which okay isn't accurate down to the last metre - but according to them I ran for 5.3km not counting the warm up and down!!!!!

I feel like Victor Meldrew... I just don't beLIEVE it!

[AnnaDJ Graduate]

Yay!! well done. I'm finding that 5k a little evasive at the moment. I'm hoping I can chase it down at the weekend.

[Mitts Graduate in reply to AnnaDJ]

I chased it round the woods! I'm going to get a Garmin and then I can be more accurate. So that's W9R1 done and dusted, 2 more to go and then I can apply for my green badge.

I'm just a bit worried that when there's no programme hounding me on so to speak that I'll let things slide... how did other people keep themselves motivated - in the winter especially??

[AnnaDJ Graduate]

I've downloaded the C25K+ podcasts and the B210k ones. I'm not sure if I'm going for a 10k but I want to see how far I can take this running business. I never thought I would be any good at it. In fact I thought I would fail at week1 so it's a real surprise to find I like it, and want to make it part of my life.

[Mitts Graduate in reply to AnnaDJ]

Just noticed you graduated this morning! Congratulations, you must be really chuffed :-). All going well I'll be following in your footsteps next week.

I'd never run before either, and I was totally unfit after years of back problems. I'm quite happy with 5K, and as I can only run on soft dirt tracks because of my back I'm pretty limited to where I can go. I can describe every tree in my woods now...

Think I'll do the same as you and have a go at the 5K+ podcasts, just hope the music's okay.

Onwards!