briscogun

I know how you feel, I just did W4D1 this morning and I can't believe I got through it. Going from 90 sec/3 minute runs to 3 min/5 minute runs was a huge jump for me physically and mentally, but I did it! I had to slow down from where I was doing Week 3 runs to make sure I didn't cough up a lung, but slow and steady got me there. I'm using the treadmill for my training (it's cold and snowy outside, and if I have to wake up at 5:00AM to go out in the cold I won't go at all, so it's down into the basement and onto the treadmill for me), and I was doing Week 3 at 6.0 running speed, but today I dialed it back to 5.5 on the first 3 runs and down to a 5.2/5.3 on that last 5 minute section. I think that's the best advice I saw on any of the message boards: just go slow. My competitiveness wants me to speed up and go for it, but I keep slowing myself down so that I can complete it all without hurting myself (which is what I did to myself 6-7 years ago when I started running the last time: shin splints and runner's knee from over-doing it). I haven't been looking ahead to the other weeks, but I think I saw that week 5 has 8 minute run segments, so I'm starting to get a little verklempt about next week, but I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it...