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Not sure why but I was a little nervous about Starting this week. Turns out there was nothing t worry about.

I did however have a tech malfunction and when I accidentally pulled my headphone jack out of my phone unknown to me it paused my C25K.

When I run I try not to look at the time at all and just wait to be told how long is left, and as it was my first run of the week I had no idea when I would be getting my little pep talks and time notices.

So, by the time I realised something was up and restarted i just commutes to running till I was told t stop rather than fixating in times and maths mid run.

Stopped running and paused my Strava and discovered I just finished a 36 minute run!

I’ll be going back to plan from next run though, and will probably take an extra day off as I’m too invested to be struck with an injury.

Goes to show though, my mental hurdles are definitely harder to overcome than the physical ones as there no way I would I thought I could do a 36 minute run this morning!

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Well done Oilandwater ...not only on your run but overcoming the tech issue, which would’ve then resulted in mental faffage...which would then have resulted in you questioning your run...but none of that happened, you stuck with it...plugged back in and carried on, now that shows you are mentally ready for anything!!! Very often it is a mind over matter situation with running, & when you graduate you will no doubt find this out, we all do...but overcoming it, shoulders back, chin up...will always get you to the end...fantastic work

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BaddieThePirateGraduate

😅That’s brilliant, well done!

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JudybniGraduate

Fantastic. Well done. You're fitter than what you realise😊😊

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