C25K newbies support thread

Went out today for the first time since Sunday and it was tough Can't seem to fit 3 runs in so hoping that walking 3 miles a day to school and back and 2x a week of C25K will be sufficient.

My birthday is coming up - any recommendations for running clothes/kit that I might want

I don't think I'm going to be challenging his time any day soon Miranda

My local park run is York Did you know that Jonathan Brownlee holds the course record? I will try and go again at some point.

Is a good thing park run is at 9am as is now very wet in York

i've got that one anasnake, I sometimes want to punch her with her chirpy "You're doing' it" stuff. I like the way it builds up the run time though.
I've been rubbish this week, lots of work and feeling flat/no energy/can't be arsed-ish. I'm on week 6 and hadn't done any runs.
Then < drum roll> this morning I went and did a park run ( my first one, I registered in a fit of enthusiasm after watching the Brownlees at the Olympics) . I have NO IDEA where that spurt of motivation came from.
I actually ran all the way too. Very, very slow and steady, and it's York so super-flat. But I wasn't last, so I am dead chuffed.

yeah fitting it in is going to be harder now in term time, plus the fact it gets darker earlier. And rainier. And for me, the fact that I sweat so much and have a red face for about an hour afterwards, which makes it hard to do it in the middle of the day and then look presentable enough to go out afterwards, which I need to do.

Wearing glasses is also a pain! Bad enough with sweat, but what will happen when it gets colder and rainier, and they're steamed up or spotted with raindrops, hmmm.

Not sure how much more I can do before the pain cripples me again, so might take 3 days n between runs instead of 2. I'm notching it up by only 30sec at a time, or reducing the walk time by 30sec. Taken 5 months to get to 5 minutes, so I guess it will be a while at this rate...

Week 3 run 1 done! Felt OK running for 3 minutes.

Agree the hardest bit so far has been fitting it in to the schedule!

Have ordered armband for my nano

Went running with DH this morning as run 1 of week 6 had walking in it. Felt quite hard work but was probably good for me.

Will be harder once children are back at achool as DS needs to be up by about 7:15 and DD a bit after that and so me going running at about 7:45 isn't really going to work. May have to run at 6:30 instead. Don't particularly like this idea...

Thanks Basin I've ordered myself an arm strap thingy. Didn't have a clue what people did with their phones/keys etc, shows how new I am to this running malarkey! Thought I'd have to get me a bum bag!

Applause to Crotchet and Miranda. I'll be bloody proud of myself when I can do 5.

I should get an armband for my nano - held off until I knew I was likely to stick at this for a while.

wow!!

20 min sounds amazing to me. It's going to take me another year or so to get there I expect....

I've now done a day that had two 5 min intervals in it, but lots of walking as well. I think that seems to be what I need, lots of little breaks. I don't have the stamina to do longer intervals. The pain is also coming back a lot in my shins.

I use a mix of apps; 5K is the one I got the basic program from, and then an interval trainer to make all my workouts that take me from one week to the next, via about a dozen gradually increasing workouts. I also use the map my run app, to see where I have been and how far.

I am wearing a jacket, even though it is SO hot, so that I can put my phone in the pocket, and also so that it covers up my middle a bit more; the t-shirt shows rolls of fat all too obviously.

Well done!

I ran for 20 minutes and I didn't collapse in a heap on the floor 😄 And day 1 of week 6 has some walking in it, so should be able to manage that.

ana I think mine is a BBC one. You get a choice of voices, mine is Sarah Millican.

scarlett I've got a thingy that straps phone to my upper arm. Think DH just bought it off amazon.

Hi, I'm new to this thread. I started on Tues and did week 1 run 2 today. I found it hard but managed! I've never done any proper exercise before do am quite proud of myself for having a go!

I'm usin the Nhs podcasts...a bit boring but ok. Where does everyone keep their phone when they're running?! It's too hot to wear a jacket so I've just had leggings and t shirt on and have carried my phone in my hand, but it's a bit of a pain. Any suggestions?

App randomly tells me I'm 'awesome' and 'way to go' and it's getting on my tits !!

I have the app on silent, phone in hand & just keep an eye on it. Probably not ideal but it works ok.

I use a really old podcast on my iPod nano - been using the same one for the 8 or so years I've been coming back to couch to 5k. Not sure whether it exists any more

Done run 1 of week 2 but don't like the app - what does everyone use ? This is the one I've got but it's American and I'm not keen .

Doing week 2 run 3 tonight! Can't imagine a 20 min run just yet!

I'm just well impressed with myself that I've kept it up for 2 weeks.

That does sound scary Miranda!

Did week 5 run 2 today which means the next one is the 20 minute run. May put it off a little bit (DH and I went out at the same time today but he did 5k)

Well done everyone. I'm following the NHS one loosely. Going out for a week 3 run and will see if I can do a week 4 over the next weekend when there's a bit more time and hopefully energy.

that's harder than my week 4! In my app, the first day is running intervals of 3, 4, and 5 min, can't remember how long the walks are in between. I'm doing it reversed, as I find it easier to start with the longer run.

It will take me at least a month or more to get to week 5 with my more gradual program, and I expect I'll have to repeat days in there, too. Both for stamina, as I still find it is really hard by the third run interval, and also because the shin pain is coming back again, even though I thought I was going so slowly this time!

And my attempts to get MapMyRun to tell me every 30sec didn't work, but maybe because I forgot to put the volume back on (I normally have it mute). It did tell me to 'start workout', though, so that shouldn't have been the problem. Could be that it just doesn't like my phone, as it says it has a lot of issues with older iPhones. So I'm back to the app that just tells me every minute. I could really use that 30sec countdown sometimes though!

Run 1 of wk4 - 3 min run 2 min walk, the 2 x 4 min run 3 min walk and then 3 min run again. I'm knackered but managed to do it. Seems to be speeding up quickly over the next lot of runs so not sure how that will go!