Starting out on c25k - New Year, new start [title meddled with by MNHQ]

W1R3 completed on Friday evening and W2R1 done tonight - also been for a big walk this afternoon with the family - I've earned so many extra calories today on Myfitnesspal that I've just had fish and chips for dinner and still have 900 in the bank!!

Well done everybody!!

I have no dolphins yet either :) I did W2R2 on Friday. Debating whether to do W2R3 tonight or tomorrow. I am enjoying it in terms of a sense of achievement but found the last run harder than the previous one.

That gives me hope knitknack, week four scared me when I looked at it!

Did run one of week 4 last night with DH - neither of us could believe it! We walked home in amazement :))

That's w1 over. I am really surprised at myself as I never thought I could do it. I am determined now to do this.

so glad to have found this thread - I started this week after not doing exercise ohh.... probably since school. So I'm trying to see it as "me time" and the exercise as secondary

Anyway did wk1 D1, wk 1 D2 and wk 1 D3 (twice as I didn't want to get my weeks muddled )
I also use the free app, really need the music and the prompts.

DD and I did W1R2 last night but it was late on and we had eaten so it seemed in some ways tougher than run 1!

I dont know whether i should just stay on week 1 until i am a bit fitter as i can only just last for 1 minute!

Hi everyone, I am so impressed by everyone's perseverance! I did w1 r3 yesterday and am enjoying it still...had a tough day at work and actually looked forward to a run to pound out some frustration! I also went to cricket practice on Tues and instead of our usual skills practice they had us doing CIRCUITS!! So I am feeling very virtuous but also extremely achy.

Starting W2 this weekend.

I use the get running app and mapmyrun to track how far I go - because I listen to audiobooks I sometimes have both apps and the book talking at me at once so I need to work out how to switch the voice on mapmyrun off.

Celia - my dh doesn't seem to get them either! I seriously doubt he'd still be doing it if we weren't ALL doing it (if you know what I mean). He's finding it much easier now we're 11 days in however (we're doing it every day). My youngest DS (like me) gets a MASSIVE rush... he calls them his 'dolphins' ("my dolphins are jumping all over the place mummy!")

I reckon they'll kick in around the 3K mark...

Just checking in! Tonight's run was really good - didn't want to stop! We're going to move up to week 4 tomorrow... (eek)

I use the totalC25K app but have a windows phone. It's free and a voice interrupts the music to state run/walk or halfway. It's fine.

I started on a c25k last year and can just about manage 5k now (up to 3 times a week, depending on how enthusiastic I am / the weather). Enjoying a temporary hiatus, despite the guilt

I have tried a couple of the apps and although I also like the Zen labs one, I would recommend Runkeeper. They offer a few free programs and you can track your activities (gps) or manually enter them (if you've been on a treadmill for example).

Easiest way is to register & set up your training program on the website, it will synch with your phone app when you log in. You can then run and track with your phone, it will let you play your own music, and you can have / not have the voice telling you your distance/time/pace etc. along with your music. If the gps drops out, stats go haywire but you can correct the map online afterwards to adjust & calculate your times and routes etc (for those of us who are particularly anal keen on keeping track of our mileage).

I use tend to use my (i)phone, but I have downloaded the podcasts onto my ipod also...

Knit, do you use a phone or iPod?

Another one who did W2R1 tonight. Feeling good and proud of myself. I wasn't sure I could do it but I bloody well will do it.

I also find that music helps in terms of getting me walking briskly / running.

I quite like running in the dark to be honest, perhaps I am just odd. I feel less conspicuous.

Sounds like we are all doing well. Loving the 'you can do it' and 'you are a champion' chants for encouragement. :)

Year ELEVEN were doing practice questions - my typing!!

I prefer the zen,abs app because I can use my own music. I do like the NHS one though, although I think the music would be better suited to sunnier days... I need a fast walking pace to warm me up at the start!!

I've looked at loads of apps now and they're all pretty much the same programme, although often on different orders. So I've done week 3 on 3 now - NHS, the C25K one and now the zen labs (my fav). They're all basically 90 secs or 2 mins twice over and then 3 mins twice over...

Much of a muchness I think - and will get us all to the same place...

I did it! Got over my fear of puddles and did a week 3 session again! That's two days of teaching then running... I'm starting to believe that maybe one CAN work and exercise (something I've never managed to quite work out how to do...)

Hope everyone else is going well?

Thanks for recommending the zen labs app - it's perfect!

Tomasz - it WAS funny. Plus I got to spend the 20 mins that year were silently doing a practice exam question picking gravel out of my hand!

thankfully I think I can still run tonight... :)

The spotify list I'm using is called 'dance music for running' - I need a fast beat!

Is it exactly the same programme on all of the apps?

'Hardly any street lighting where I am so unable to see curbs'

I so read that as 'unable to see the carbs'. I guess that is because I am running at night deliberately so people don't get to see my belly wobble up and down.

Thanks starlight hope you've got your trainer situation sorted.

Knitknack so sorry but a did laugh a little at the mouth full of puddle - hope you are OK though. What's the running playlist called that you've found on spotify? Is it the running low tempo one for a 7 minute km laughs hysterically at the thought of running a 7min km

Also had calf burn today on w1r2 Celia I'm also worried I might have put my body into shock

I managed to fit w2r2 in this morning. I'm feeling particularly good about it because I soaked up some sunshine and the sky has now turned dark and looks like rain may be falling soon.

I'm having a technical quandary. At the moment I'm running using the nhs C2 5K app on my iPod and mapmyrun on my android phone. I find the nhs app very dull and want to use a different app and was thinking of using the get running app. Does anyone use this app on a very old android phone, my phone struggles with storage space, although has plenty of space on the card. Basically my question is what is everyone else using and are you happy with it?

Woohoo ! Wk 2 r1 done and dusted

I am cheating a bit by doing it in the gym but I just cant face running outside yet .

I enjoyed it , feeling really pleased that I have got of my bum .

I (stupidly) decided to start the C25k programme with my 9yr old DD.

How hard could it be to run for 1 minute walk for 1.5 minutes 8 times? Ruddy hard I say!! But I am having to cart about 2 average sized people so it serves me right I suppose!

DD was a superstar and I really couldn't have done it without her. I downloaded the podcast onto her ipod so she gave the running (see what I did there?) commentary of what we had to do accompanied with chants of "You can do it", "You are a Champion" etc .

I must admit bizarrely run 8 was easier than run 1 but I am as stiff as a board now. Heaven knows what I will be like in the morning