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Hi Srijan! Today was my Day 1. Saw you posted on April 23rd. Hope you've been able to stick with it, but if not, that's okay! Today is another day and so is tomorrow. I, too, struggle with mild depression for which I am currently taking medication for. Hope you are well and are successful on your journey to complete a 5k in July! Take care!

Thank you for calling me seasoned runner. I have started the running and C25K last December. Before that my life was: computer at work - compute at home - couch and TV. Today I am less overweight (#195), eating better (trying), can run 5K in 33min and almost one year older (56). This is what I am trying to tell here. This is more mental than physical. Strangely enough you remember all negativity about W5D3, but forum has plenty victories posts about the same day. Look at them. Good music, easy pace, ignoring the clock and believe that you can do it - all these will help, especially the last part. There are few ways to deal with it: - run as long as you can, take 2-3min walk and complete the run. Repeat until you conquer this! - slowly (1-2weeks) increase you total running time to 25 or 28 min. Then 20 continues min will be easy. There is one thing to remember: the total running time is a goal, not continues time. Our sedentary life style benefits more than anything from __total__ moving time we can add to the day. Speed and continuity is good, but much less important. Thanks again for the "seasoned runner", make me smile....