Excellent advice from vardaeml. Go slow. Go slower. I am slow. Ssslllooowww. This heat is brutal. The humidity is a killer. Go as slow as you can without falling back to a walk. The point is to keep moving. That's it.

When fall gets here and it's running season again, you'll be amazed by how much easier it is.

Prove your brain wrong. I think it's all mental, sans injury. Go slow, focus on breathing and pace. But when your mind starts telling you, you can't push yourself harder. Crawl if you need to, but push yourself. Your brain will give up long before your body.

So, it seems like you've been letting your brain win. It's time to prove it wrong.

The heat was a struggle of mine here in Miami, and the humidity, don't get me started. And silly me decides to run mid day. It was tough, but I made sure I drank enough water before my run, and had something in my stomach.

It worked for me.

But when my brain was wanting to give up, I just thought about the reasons why I was running in the first place. I don't care if it's as slow as a turtle in mud (read that somewhere). And then I thought, hey, if people up north can run in the freezing cold. I can do this. So remember, someone out there is doing it with a greater challenge.

I know its HARD, I found 101 excuses to give up, but I always found 101 to motivate me to keep going. And I'm in week 8! I can't believe it.

Try moving on to Week 5 Day 3. I know it seems like a huge jump but I think the first 6-10 minutes of running are the worst and then you find your rhythm. My friend didn't believe me about that but she found Week 5 Day 3 easier than Week 4 and the start of week 5. After that she didn't want to run intervals again. As has been said though, the trick is to go slow even if you feel ridiculous doing it.

My mind wants to give up WAY before my body. I had gastric bypass surgery last year and the first 3 months I was hospitalized with some complications. When my mind wants to quit, I just dedicate the next 60 seconds to all of the family and friends who were there for me at the lowest point of my life when I was sooooo sick. I remind myself of everything I went thru and everything I put my family thru. And all of a sudden its just not so tough any more.

I think of everything I am thankful for. I tell myself that fitness is my new normal. I switch back and forth between focusing on breathing, focusing on my form, and focusing on the music. I remind myself that is not my body wanting to quit but my mind. I tell myself I have a choice of whether or not to stop. Sometimes I even take note of the people on the treadmills around me and secretly try to outdo them.

I think a lot of weird things, but it passes the time! :happy:

I remind myself that I've given birth - if I can do THAT, then I can do this!

it's hot
you're not going slowly enough.
Go slow during the walk and the run.
walk slower during the break.

Make sure you're slow during the second walk and run.

You will need to run slower than you ever have.

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:-)

I agree with the others who have said to go slower. I get that it feels harder to do so at the moment, but it really can make all the difference.

I also wonder if you might be overdoing it a bit with the bootcamp as well. It might be too much, (for you, your body, at this point in time) to do that and then try to complete C25k at the same time. Maybe if you tried cutting back on a day or two of bootcamp, you'd feel more able to go further with the C25k? Might be worth a try, even if just to get you past this block.

As for the mental thing, what works for me might be the opposite of what works for other people. I don't really respond very well to cheerleading tactics, even from myself; what works for me is to tell myself that I don't have to do it if I don't want to. I completed c25k last year, and at the moment, my usual run is about 5k, or a little further. I frequently doubt myself though, and my ability to complete that. So, I tell myself that I'll start off, and I don't have to go any further than I need to. I will just see how far I get. Then, if I start feeling it's hard going, I reassure myself that I'm just going to see how far I get, and then I can walk. I tell myself "just another minute" or "just to the next bend" etc.

The vast, vast majority of the time, I end up doing the whole run, and I always end up doing at least 15 mins. I often find that the runs that start off the worst, full of doubts, out of breath and tired, are the runs that end up being really great, and I bound back home full of energy.

I tend to day dream about how good I will look in the future and how old friends I haven't seen in a long time will react. I count my steps in sets of 4, remember my dad and how he passed away at 51 and was diabetic by 30 something but didn't treat it till he was 41. I will not end up diabetic. I think about my kids and things we need to get done this summer. Sometimes when my calf pain or feet pain gets bad (my worst part of running is tight calfs). I think of the guy I passed running the other day that was a double amputee and in a power chair. Not sure if it was from diabetics or not but I tell myself it was and that will not be me.

I also think about my friend who was very active in high school that jumped in a pool head first and has been a para politic since we were 21. And how he would do anything to walk again... I think about how lucky I am to be able to run. By the time my mind gets done wondering it is usually time to walk. I love it! Good luck getting through it. Just turn on the app and don't think about the times.