C25K newbies support thread

Basin I'm feeling ropey too. Should be running today but honestly don't feel up to it so giving it a miss . As much I hate doing the runs, I really don't want to miss. Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks empress. Well I don't feel any worse today but don't feel much better either! Nothing is happening though, no cold breaking, just feel shite. Will try and run tonight if I don't feel any worse by the time I get in from work. If I feel same as yesterday though I won't.

bastard it does get easier I promise! Just keep posting here, we all seem to be spurring each other on nicely. If you feel you need to repeat runs or even weeks then just do it at your own pace.

Basin, hope you and the foot feel better soon. I'm thinking that even if I have to drop back a week I'm just going to focus on kicking the cold for now - think it's starting to go.

Thanks Mother. You deserve that glass!

Bastard, it does get easier! Honestly! And this thread is great for mutual support.

Hello! Must be fate that I looked on active and saw this thread :)

Started from scratch this morning, yup, nearly killed me.

Tell me it gets easier!

Hi All

empress I've missed tonight's run as I feel like I'm coming down with something. Gutted. Really don't want to lose the momentum but don't want to make myself worse either! Am hoping a lazy evening and early night will keep it at bay.

Annette the foot is quite sore actually but thanks for asking.

Miranda you are doing great, I think you said yourself every run is a victory, or something like that.

mother welcome. I'm sure you'll do great!

Miranda I bet you will look back on that run and work out why. I often have unexplained exhaustion (feels like walking through treakle) then I get a cold or flu and then realise I was exhausted as my body was working hard to fend off the illness.

motherof stop that agest attitude, malarkey is good and fun whatever the age
Oh and here is a lady that started when she was older than you, womensrunninguk.co.uk/health/old-run-heres-start/

I have decided to grow old totally disgracefully, I'm just in training for it now and yes I wear purple.

I'm running tomorrow as the wine is already opened tonight, will report back then.

Not at all too late, Dragons! Welcome to the thread. I'm not a natural runner either but it does get easier.

I've had a stonking cold all week though, so exercise is on hold until I feel better.

Today's run was not so successful - had to walk some of it. Did cover about 5k although took me rather longer than 30 minutes. But much better than I could have done a couple of months ago

Didn't help when 12 year old DS got back from school and casually announced that he'd done 5.6k in 25 minutes. And that lots of people were faster

This week just gone its been 1 thing after another.
So glad to see you are all making progress.

Basin Yay that you did the 20mins!! Hope the PF is under control.
Miranda maybe the traffic lights were getting in the way of your flow, go you, I'm sure you will have that 5k in 30 under your belt really soon.

For me, W5R3 done
I really didn't think i would do it, I've had a week off. I did my setting myself smaller goals, this time 5 mins and at the end of each I wondered how close I could get to the next 5, then just kept going like that.
New route and good info, canal footpaths are often flat!.

Wow Miranda that amazing!

I will start week 6 today. Haven't been out since my 20 min run last Thursday which is annoying as its a longer gap than I'd have liked. But will still get Week 6 nailed this week so not too big of a deal.

Did my first run of week 9 which is 30 minutes running this morning. Went a completely different route, going into the village and coming back out again and according to map my run I did 4.92 km in 30 minutes .

The other route does have traffic lights but today I didn't feel I was working too hard and covered much more. Maybe I can manage 5km in 30 min. Will try again tomortow

Well done everyone. No experience of asthma (thankfully) Heru

I won't get out now till Thursday if all goes well or possibly Sunday i it all goes downhill likely

I have just done W4 R1, alternating 3min and 5 min intervals on my podcasts. It went better than I expected . Can I ask if anyone is doing this with asthma? I am currently taking between 4 and 6 puffs of ventolin while on the run. On a non-run day I don't take any at all. Does this sound too much?

Finally did my 5-7-5 today, which is like the start of Week 5 on my app, even if it's taken months to get there - though I have more walk breaks than I'm supposed to. On my app, you're supposed to be doing 18-20 min or so by the start of Week 6, but with a 1 min break in. (The actual first 20 min run isn't until the end of Week 6 on mine). I'm going to aim for 10-10-something, for my start of Week 6, but still keep my long breaks in there - so two 10-min runs, and maybe a little jog at the end. (Then my next goal will be to move the break later and later, and eventually reduce it a bit).

So now I have to set up the runs for this version of Week 5 and program them in. I think I might just leave it as it for the first few outings, though today didn't actually feel too bad. I took paracetamol before I went, and slathered my calves and ankles with ibuprofen gel, and maybe that helped.

Good stuff team! Hungover today so won't run as I have usually been doing on a Saturday. Will run tomorrow instead.

Well done everybody!

I did it! Was hard and will be redoing it a few times before I try week 5 run 2, but whooohooo

Hooray to everyone! Great work. I'm going out in a bit to try week 5 R1

Went out and did 3km with DH this morning. Tried going a bit faster (listening to Gold by Spandau Ballet helped with this) and although he was faster, we think I did it in just under 18 minutes :)

Felt very urgh afterwards but am fine now :)

Well done . It's a great feeling having done the 20 minute run :)

It went well. I'm not gonna lie and say that my legs hadn't completely turned to jelly at the end though. My app told me when I'd done 5 and then 10 minutes and then nothing until it told me to stop running! Towards the end I was starting to think I couldn't go on, but I think it would have been better if I'd had an update on time in the second 10 minutes as it was loooooong!

I reckon first and last 5 mins were tough and the middle was actually pretty good. Definately mind over matter though.

Made sure I had a good stretch out afterwards too.

W4R1 tonight. I'd found the 3 minute runs quite tricky in week 3 and thought I was going to struggle. And at first I did - the first run coincided with me hitting a hill and I thought my chest would explode! Took longer than 90 seconds to recover, partly because the app crashed and I had to start over and ff to the right part. But the 5 min run was then downhill and the rest on flat and I did it! A month ago I couldn't manage 60 seconds, so I'm so chuffed.