Oh my god, I finally broke through the wall! After all that frustration I managed a 30 minute non-stop run! Yippeeeee! It felt really good too, I can't believe it!! I've been stuck on Week 7 all summer and refused to move on until I could break through 25minutes, hence why I put (ish) in the title, because I did the running of Week 9 but haven't done Week 8 yet. To be honest, I may not bother with the C25k plan now and just focus on getting to a non-stop 5km before doing interval runs to up my pace.
Funnily enough, slowing the pace down was probably the best thing I could have done, I felt relaxed and not under so much pressure to keep it up. The other trick was to bin the C25k app, because I found that I was focussing too hard on the 'halfway' announcement and getting frustrated when it didn't come. Today, I just ran. No time indicators, only distance and before I knew it I'd done 22 minutes without even realising AND I was happy to carry on. I also listened to the radio rather than music, which also focussed my mind really well (thanks TalkSport!!)
I'm very happy now and I can settle in front of the footie this weekend guilt-free! Hurrah!
Congratulations!!! great run
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