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rosalee350
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Finish week one training..
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Great job; congratulations!!!0
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Nice work!0
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Woot!!!! Congrats!0
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Second week is much harder, but holding my own...
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Stick with it. Once your body catches up, it will start to surpass what your brain believes it can handle pretty quickly.0
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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.
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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.0 -
Podcasts! Awesome idea.0
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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!0 -
Thank you everyone for your support..
I will tried some of your recommendations..
Thank you0
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