Couch to 5k Running - Part Two

Sammy_Girl

Drea - Don't worry!!! You ran for 21 min :j

We all have our good days and our bad days. Just wait til Friday and try the run again. You've changed your trainers as well so they prob take some getting used to.

Drea

busiscoming2 wrote: »

Know how you feel, bad day me thinks.....

Definitely, lets forget it and get back out there on Friday

Sammy_Girl wrote: »

Drea - Don't worry!!! You ran for 21 min :j

We all have our good days and our bad days. Just wait til Friday and try the run again. You've changed your trainers as well so they prob take some getting used to.

You're right, I ran for 21 minutes and Friday I'll run for 25

skintlass

21 minutes is not far off 25 minutes - you can do it.

69chick

Drea, agree with others 21 minutes running is still amazing to me :T

CompletelyLost

Evening, so I still haven't tried wk5 run3 (20 mins) yet BUT I am slowly working my way up to it.

Today I did
9min run
4 min walk
14 min run (I didn't plan to run for so long, I just kept going past 8-mins until I couldn't go any further).

So overall I'm doing more than 20 mins running, but I still feel like I need a break in between (or do I? is it all in my head? I'm just scared of that 20min run...).

juno

CompletelyLost wrote: »

Evening, so I still haven't tried wk5 run3 (20 mins) yet BUT I am slowly working my way up to it.

Today I did
9min run
4 min walk
14 min run (I didn't plan to run for so long, I just kept going past 8-mins until I couldn't go any further).

So overall I'm doing more than 20 mins running, but I still feel like I need a break in between (or do I? is it all in my head? I'm just scared of that 20min run...).

It's all in your head

That's why the Ullreys podcasts are good - they're more like contiunous music so you hav no idea how long you're running for. If you have distinct songs you can guess each is bout 4 mins and try to add it up, or if you know the songs you may know song length better. You might also know your route and start thinking "yesterday I struggled here" and then you make it hard again.\

So yeah, find a bribe. Do you want new shoes, headphones, socks, mp3 player, chocolate? When you run 20 mins you can have it.

69chick

Juno, just noticed your weightloss on your siggy, well done you :T

MinniMe_2

well I did it, week 1 run 1 yesterday evening.

Quiet proud of myself really. Am hoping to get out for run 2 tmorrow.

Thanks for a great thread.

bertiebots

Well done on your first run MinniMe!! And a huge well done to everyone else too:j

I did my second week 4 run today and still had to stop in the last five minute run, but this time instead of counting to 60 , I counted 30 seconds . So I figure this is an improvement:D. I really pushed myself for that last minute (like he said;)) and it wasnt as bad as on tuesday so I must be getting better.
I need to figure out how to concentrate on something other than the running because at the moment all that is going on in my head is .."come on, keep going..just a bit further....ouch.... etc , etc". I want to be able to switch off ...but I suppose that will come (I hope!):D

And what is going on with the music with the last run?

I also need to re-think my route because I am now having to double back and run the same way almost twice . This also means that I am going almost twice as far as in week 1 so it is spurring me on:j.

skintlass

MinniMe wrote: »

well I did it, week 1 run 1 yesterday evening.

Quiet proud of myself really. Am hoping to get out for run 2 tmorrow.

Thanks for a great thread.

Well done -you've completed the first step of the journey to running.