I just failed my first run. 
I hit a wall about 10 minutes in. The weird thing is nothing hurt, and I wasn’t especially tired. I had no umph. My get up and go got up and went. I walked for 30 minutes instead. I’m going to give week 5 run 1 another try tomorrow morning. Hopefully it goes better. It has me pretty bummed out.
I don't even want to consider failing tomorrow.
Go Kimber, Go Kimber!
Hope that encouragement helps! By the time you get to week 5 I think it's the mental barrier you need to get over, so not hurting physically is not unusual.
You just need to keep telling yourself that if you have followed the plan to date you will always be ready for whatever Laura throws at you next. I try all sorts of things, like dividing the run up in my head - for the first half i try to focus on rythm and breathing. Then once I'm over half way mentally I know i can do it!
Just think in one and a half sessions time you will be 50% towards completing the nine weeks. Appart from week 8 (which got to me for some reason) I found week 5 the hardest mentally.
So stick with it in the knowledge that we are behind you all the way and there are so many blogs here that are testament to the fact that people made it to the end of the course, can now run 30 minutes none stop and still cannot believe how ggod that feels.
Happy running tomorrow - I'll look out for your post run write up!
Mo says "you can do it Kimber!" 
Go go go Kimber, it's just one bad run, you will get over it and move on to more good runs! Forget today and go, go, go Delia
Mo and Delia are so right! We all have bad runs from the get-go! The only other suggestion from personal experience is that when it is my tom, I feel like my legs are lead and no energy. Hopefully the next run will be great! Gayle
There are all sorts of reasons why today's run might have been a toughie, you might be fighting off some nasty lurgy, might be a bit sleep deprived, might be a bit dehydrated,self doubts, all sorts of little things can "gang up" on you.
BUT you havent failed, you learn more from runs that don't go to plan than the ones that do! There is no deadline for this programme you listen to your own body and go at your pace, so dont feel you have to re-do this run tomorrow, you may still benefit from a rest day after running for 10 mins then walking?
If on any of your future runs you feel like stopping, try and analyse what is sending you that message.
If it's self doubt or fear of failure, then just try and think of what one of your heroes would do? In my case, it was my sister Fran (who took up running aged 48 and has done 9 marathons in the past 5 years) - I would say to myself "what would Fran do now?" and that would keep me plodding on!
If my legs start feeling tired I repeat "strong legs" (under my breath of course or I would be carted away!).
Remember the hundreds of people who have done this programme before you and succeeded (including short fat 50 somethings who had avoided running like the plague for 40 years - yup, that's me!).
You CAN do this.
We all have bad runs, sometimes we just aren't in the right frame of mind I found wk 8 really hard. I found it helped to set myself small targets like running to the end of the road or the next lamp post so that I wasn't focusing on how long I was running for and I found this really helped me. If you need an extra rest day then take one before trying again, I took a week off after w8r1. Look how far you have come you can do this Good Luck with your next run look forward to hearing all about it 
you've had all the good advice from everyone already, all I have to add is..............
YOU CAN DO IT!!!
(that's a cheering shout, not yelling at you, just to be clear!)
We've all had bad runs (or even a week for me, when I was going down with lurgy and then broke my toe!), but you will pick yourself up and go on to bigger and better things, trust the programme, trust us and, most of all, trust yourself.
Look forward to hearing about your next run, when you've rested.
Gave up during my run today. Week 5 run 1
WEEK 5, RUN 1 to Run 3 difference 
Week 5 Run 1 completed 😊
Week 5 Run 1 - not as bad as expected
Week 5, Run 1 = Bosh! :)
