Thank you

[Souki]

Well here I am on valentines night not eating out because I'm on a diet! (and who would want to babysit 3 children anyway) telling my poor husband, 'just read the paper, I must answer to all the lovely people who replied to my downer blog' ??

Thank you for your encouragement, I certainly did come back from that run very deflated,

But I'm pleased to say that today w3r2 was slightly better, a few kind people pointed out that if I wasn't comfortable moving on just redo that week (do you know that was a relief) doesn't HAVE to be done in 9 weeks does it.

Unfortunately I am a bit of a self doubter, but as I progress through this process hopefully ill grow confidence, I find everyone's blogs very encouraging even uplifting so Thankyou all for your kind comments.

I did have to laugh when I was imagining this person on the other side of the hedge watching my head bob up and down, all I could think was 'they'll be watching wobbly bits bobbing not my head'

[swanscot Graduate]

Well done of a better run.

> I did have to laugh when I was imagining this person on the other side

> of the hedge watching my head bob up and down,

Ha! I remember that and would you believe on my first run of Week 3, I was running past the one and only hedge I pass on my route at the time Laura said that! And this hedge is just about head height! It was as if Laura could see me

[Bibs Graduate]

Well done Souki, do the programme in your own time, with 3 kids you have more on your plate than most.

I remember the hedge comment from Laura, the thought that anyone could possibly bouce while running amused me a lot at the time, still does come to think about it

[mcc65 Graduate]

I'm doing the programme for a second time because I'm not sure the first time round was fast enough to actually be described as running

So this time round I'm upping the pace.

Having gone through it all before you'd think it would be easier, we'll I did W3R1 last night and got about half way through the second interval when I started thinking 'OMG, I don't think I'm going to be able to finish this' but having the experience of completing the runs before meant I knew that even if I don't finish a run first time round it will be just a little bit easier next time

Don't forget about the 9 weeks completely, but don't beat yourself up with it either. If you are anything like me then you will focus too much on that deadline and it will become a negative. I told myself that the important thing was to finish the programme no matter how long it took - in the end I did it in about 11 weeks which considering I am middle aged, overweight and the last time I did any exercise was in PE at school wasn't too bad.

You need to go through the programme your way

[greenlegs Graduate]

Glad this one went a bit better for you. You aren't the only self-doubter on here - not by miles and miles and miles!

Plodding on to the end of the programme is a really good way to build up self-confidence though - every tough bit you get through chips away at the self-doubt a little bit. Well it did for me anyway! So keep going forwards!