W4R2. I feel like I'm about to drop.

[Kimberami]

Hey y'all. I was looking over my blogs for the past few runs. It seems like my R2's are killers. I wonder why that is. I guess that's the added benefit of blogging about my adventure. I can see patterns.

I really didn't want to get up this morning. I'm doing a very gross, physically difficult project at work. Yesterday took almost every ounce of strength I had. I just had to keep repeating "It's just 30 minutes. I can do this." I started rough. The first running segment felt so off, but I kept pushing. I got a stitch in my side. I kept pushing. During the first five minute, Laura tells you when you've run for 2.5 minutes, and for the first time I felt that there was no way I could keep it up for another 2.5 minutes. I thought I was going to die. I just didn't know if I had it in me. The only thing that kept me going was thinking of my friend. She and I have decided to do a Zombie obstacle course 5k next year. I really want to do this with her. If I can't keep going when I'm tired, I'm really going to let her down. I'm training for our team. We are friends since college, and now she's moved far away. I only get to see her occasionally. I mentioned how lonely running had become for me, and we decided that we needed to do a run together. The Zombie run is in a city about halfway between us. I'll have to fly to get there. If I'm going to spend so much money on this, I have to do the hell out of it.

Wish me luck.

<3

Kimber

[rolphie2 Graduate]

Maybe r2 is hard because we have done the run once and think that it will be easy and it isn't, who knows, you kept going that is the main thing and you completed the run so well done. Keep going and you will nail that 5K run with no problem, every time Laura increased the distance I thought I will never be able to do that and every time I did it. Now I am just one run from graduation, have joined a running club and run 5K. Believe me I did nothing before I started this. You can do it. Good luck with the rest of your runs trust Laura and you will do it

[Jadis Graduate]

I found some of the run 2s hard and I think its overconfidence too. Specifically I would see them as hard when I'd found run 1s not so bad - and now I'm on to the longer runs and seeing how much difference speed can make I'm looking back at them and thinking that was the problem. If run 1 went well could I have subconsciously sped up for my run 2 and that caused the problem?

All I can say is just keep going. I have had failed runs, had to repeat days and even weeks, had little breaks for weekends away, and at times really thought it wasn't going to happen - but here I am on week 7 pulling 25 mins in one go - if I can then anyone can!