Couch to 5k- Cage your inner chimp and get started!

Just done W5R2. My flipping podcast died on me again! Thankfully I had listened to th beginning and was still able to do the proper times.

Have now listened to W5R3. I'm scared! 20 mins!!!!!!!!

I will be doing it on Monday and it's the run my friend comes over for. Would really rather do it alone. She runs faster than me. Which isn't hard!

Iwishiwasmoreorganised - (love your name - could be written for me!) - good luck tomorrow! Let me know how it goes!

MirandaWest that's impressively fast!

I did Week 4 Day 2 today - MUCH better than yesterday. I only took one of the walking breaks, the 2.5 mins before the final 5 min run. Felt good enough then to do a bit more so ended up doing 5 k altogether without stopping and with only one more walking break. Very slow, 34 mins in total, but felt a lot better than yesterday. And it's a gorgeous Indian Summer day here in London, blue sky, blue river, swans, picture perfect.

Just back from my morning run - decided to push myself and do week 4 run 1 which was harder work than week 3 . Nearly double the running. But managed all right and now I've found my Nike plus thingy I could do timing so could tell during the running parts I was doing about 5:30 to 5:45 per km. If only I could keep that up for a whole 5k I'd be fine. Think I'll do all three runs of week 4 before scary week 5 with the 20 minute run though

There's a website wizzler! Not worked out how to get the podcast into the hounds ears though...

Returning to C25K after a summer break. Delighted by the dark evenings which means no one can see me pottling round the streets!

Have gone back to W3 and completed r1 and r2.... Delighted because when I started earlier in the year W1 nearly finished me off.

Bought new sports bra to prove I mean it this time.

Cannot believe how much more positive I feel about things after just going running twice!

Am v of those of you who have well behaved dogs who run with you .. is there a podcast for this I wonder

Iwish - you will be fine! I remember looking at that run and thinking I would never be able to run for that length of time. But you will be able to. And you will! It's as much about your head as it is about your legs. Honestly!

Well done all and thanks for the words of encouragement, cinnamon greyhound.

I did an hour's Pilates at lunchtime - LOADS of leg exercises - and then walked 6 k on the way back from work so that's something over 2 hrs 45 mins exercise all told today. My legs are fecked

Week 5 run 2 done tonight.

I am now the proud owner of a very achey pair of legs!

I am rather nervous at the thought of trying to run for 20 minutes without stopping on my next outing - scheduled for Saturday.

Well done BIWI and DawnDonna!

Ripping my insoles are custom made orthotic ones from my physio, who's a foot specialist. They were quite expensive, around €250 (Ireland) but so worth it. I switch them from day shoes into my runners, but they are a bit narrow for my runners so I'm thinking of getting another pair made to fit runners when I can afford it.

Wow BIWI! You got me looking at today's stats - I did 8.08 min per km Seriously impressed by your speed

First sign of madness, cinnamon ...

I'm dead chuffed. I had worked out that part of my run, alongside a river on a very narrow, muddy path, was probably slowing me down, so decided to miss that bit out and run on the main path (even though that is a lot less beautiful!)

That definitely helped, but looking at MapMyRun stats, my whole run was quicker - not just that small bit. My last km was the slowest, at 6.12 minutes, but the others were all 5 something - which is a real improvement.

I'm constantly amazed as to how it's possible to get faster every time you run. And this has been the case right from the beginning, which is why the programme works so well!

And Dawn - really well done! It's fantastic when you make those breakthroughs. You're definitely on your way to becoming a runner!

Did you have a good run Cinnamon?!

Well done BIWI! And Dawndonna!

Well done BIWI :)

I'm having to change my days this week, so this morning, to get things in sync I did a 20 minute job. 5 minutes running, intended to do another 5 and just kept going, got to 8 minutes. Am amazed at myself.

BIWI that is impressive! I will try to get 35 mins this weekend

Woo hoo! Managed 5K in 29.52 mins!

Very pleased with myself

Hello all who've joined since I last checked in .

I started Week 4 this morning and found it quite challenging! I was a bit about this as it's only four months ago that I was regularly doing runs of between 5 and 10 kms. But I did enjoy it and I'm hoping that this time around, building stamina slowly but surely will serve me better in the long run.

New running shoes are great - going up a half-size has been very helpful.

I originally did couch to 5k in 2009 I think :)

I'm off shortly - trying to see if I can shave 18 seconds off my time so that I can get to 29.59!

Did my run today and intending to go and run tomorrow as well (haven't been too achy yet - long may it last)

Drama, where did you get yours from please?

I was looking at some in Boots (oh, the irony ) but they all described under-pronation (using the inside edge of your foot) on the packaging and I over-pronate (use the outside edge of my heel)