Ive been following my fellow runners on here a lot lately, and many people see week 5 as an important week in the program. Having gone into this as unfit as anybody I decided to try put some of my thoughts to paper as I progress through this week for my own benefit and the people still heading to this point.
Run 1 week 5
On running days I generally try to eat some fruit, on that particular day I ate two bananas in the morning, one of which I used to make a smoothie. I find I generally run better later in the day with some food in my system. (Around noon usually works for me) . The walking went as one might expect, and right as I was heading into the park.
The first 5 minutes actually went rather well, I find that keeping a positive mindset is extremely important, I even mutter "you can do this, you can do this" to myself, I find that it definately helps me. The second one went well too, although I did make a point of slowing down as I went along but I did keep a good pace. The third one was where it was personally interesting for me, I kept "hearing" something in me saying "you cant do this, you cant do this" but I tried to stick with it and repeat that mantra to myself. "you can do this, you can do this" In the last 45 seconds I noticed a twig on the road, I knew by that point that I would make it and a I kicked it off the road feeling very tough
I was very proud when I finished it, I felt absolutely great.Ill write more tomorrow when I do run 2
Happy Running!