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    5k

    Posts: 9 Member
    edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    Finish week one training..

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    • Posts: 296 Member
      Great job; congratulations!!!
    • Posts: 14 Member
      Nice work!
    • Posts: 37 Member
      Woot!!!! Congrats!
    • Posts: 9 Member
      Second week is much harder, but holding my own...
    • Posts: 1,122 Member
      Stick with it. Once your body catches up, it will start to surpass what your brain believes it can handle pretty quickly.
    • Posts: 296 Member
      peachyfuzzle wrote: »
      Stick with it. Once your body catches up, it will start to surpass what your brain believes it can handle pretty quickly.

      ^ ^ ^ Exactly! ^ ^ ^

      In fact, I've been through C25K twice now (after doing a year-long 5K2C in between :( ), and I am convinced that it is 80% mental. You CAN run that far . . . It just takes the baby steps to make your mind BELIEVE that you can.
    • Posts: 303 Member
      edited June 2015
      Woohoo! Stick with it. I definitely agree about the mental aspect. One thing that helped me was to listen to podcasts instead of music. I noticed I would kinda mentally calculate how long songs were, etc. to estimate how much time I had been running/had left to run, which just messed with my head. Podcasts are longer so I can "get lost" in the time more easily.

      ETA: I'm on week 8 of C25K.
    • Posts: 157 Member
      Podcasts! Awesome idea.
    • Posts: 296 Member
      pteryndactyl wrote: »
      Woohoo! Stick with it. I definitely agree about the mental aspect. One thing that helped me was to listen to podcasts instead of music. I noticed I would kinda mentally calculate how long songs were, etc. to estimate how much time I had been running/had left to run, which just messed with my head. Podcasts are longer so I can "get lost" in the time more easily.

      ETA: I'm on week 8 of C25K.

      That's an excellent idea. For me, it was a bit of the opposite, however . . . I do mental calculations to get 'lost'. Doesn't matter WHAT I am calculating - as long as it takes concentration to do it. (I have always loved mental arithmatic)

      I remember at one point I was dismayed to learn that many organized runs do not allow headphones. I wondered if I would EVER be able to run without my music. Eventually (many weeks after completing the second C25K), I took them off as a trial . . . I now actually PREFER to run sans headphones!
    • Posts: 9 Member
      Thank you everyone for your support..
      I will tried some of your recommendations..
      Thank you
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