Here we go. I was nervous about W5R3 & I'd said I was going to do some more 10 min runs first. This should be pinned at the top of the thread.
09/10/2016 12:56 AnnettePrice
Empress please do the 10 mins, then if you feel like you can still keep running for another step, do that step, keep on doing the one extra running step.
Then you will realise that you are not so far off 15 mins so you might as well keep going until then.
Once you get to 15mins you are already 3/4 of the way there and you're on the home straight.
Start to imagine how good it will feel to have done 20 mins. Imagine it so much you feel like you could almost touch it. Think of what treat would you give to yourself if you do it?
Then before you know it, your 20 mins will be up.
The 20 min run is there to prove you can do it, but I would say it is more a head thing than physical. Physically it not easy but it's no harder than how any of the previous runs are, and you have done those :-)
And it worked.
I think I'm going to make myself run in the rain at least once before booking into a gym, just to see what it's actually like.