Progress is in the eye of the beholder.

I was trying to think up a clever title for this new post and decided to type "progress is..." into Google for some inspiration. I'm not going to lie, I'm not really 100% sure what I was thinking because I ended up with suggestions such as "progress is a comfortable disease". Not exactly what I was going for but each to their own I suppose. I also found a link suggesting "progress is in the eye of the beholder" which I swear is a mix of a few different phrases, however, I feel it's quite appropriate so I'm sticking with it!

Moving on, I'm very pleased to say that my week was much more productive than the last one! Firstly, I actually went out for a run on Tuesday which automatically makes it infinitely better - progress! In one of my first posts, I said that I am trying to work on my running endurance. It's all very well saying that I can run 5k but if that includes massive walking breaks in between then it's not really what I set out to accomplish. As such, I have been working on running for longer distances to see how I get on. I mentioned before that I was managing 1 mile continuously and then tried for a slightly extended distance. Every time I try to run for a bit longer than I was previously used to, I end up feeling quite sick but it feels quite good, knowing that I've pushed myself.

When I went out for my run on Tuesday, I planned to tack on a bit more to the 1.24 miles I previously ran, to see how I got on. To my great surprise, I managed to completely surpass that target and continue until I almost reached home! At 2.45 miles, this is my longest continuous run to date!! Woop woop. I'm extremely pleased with this because it means that I only have 0.66 miles until I am running the full 5 kilometres in one go! Admittedly I was running pretty slowly by the end of those 2.45 miles but I still count that as major progress :)

Due to various reasons, I didn't manage to get out for a run for the rest of the week but I have more optimism now for the coming week! I can totally do this :D

Also, a massive thanks to my latest contributor for bumping my current total up so much! It's very exciting to see that I have 30% towards my target. It has been a few weeks so I'm going to be cheeky and plug my donate page again (I've also added it to my links along the right-hand side of the page). Truly appreciate all the support :)

Current total: £75.00
Countdown: 16 weeks 6 days