New year C25K. Anyone care to join me?

Leg was feeling much better yesterday and this morning (the ice worked wonders) so I decided to try to go out today. Just this minute got back and the 5 min warm up was fine (no pain at all) but within 2 seconds of running was in a lot of pain again! So I've hobbled back home again and am going to make myself rest until at least Saturday!

Hello everyone, you are all doing a great job. I'd like to join the group, though have already started the programme.

After a bit of a blip, I am back on track with week 4 (though accidentally hit week 5 day 1 this morning in my muddle with the dog and my music and thought the first run was rather long!)

Will continue with Wk4D2 either tomorrow or the next day.

I am aiming to get fitter and lose some weight (around one stone) and give the family the shock of their bloody lives when I can, hopefully, do the 5k. They don't even know I am doing this!

Great to hear how you;re finding w4, from wk1 it looks scarily hard! Am managing to get into the running now, even EvilDog has it figured! Walk/drag then run/bounce like a fanny!
Done W1R1 3 times now due to illness and not understanding how to use the app, but thats ok as I wanted to ease my way in and not get sore shins. Extra warmups/cool down stretches are fab!
runningfox I've just started too, let me know how you get on! I;m also slim (or I was!) but have put on a little weight round the middle and want to be a bit fitter!

Hi, can I join?
I've never run before, although I play tennis and badminton (but am not at all fit). I have just downloaded the NHS C25K app and the podcasts and am hoping to start on Sunday or Monday. I'm slim so not aiming to lose weight, just massively improve my fitness which is pretty poor at the moment!

W4R1 completed here too. I also found it surprisingly ok Chicken and found I preferred the slightly shorter walks between the running - although it could just be that as the weather was slightly warmer I wasn't getting as cold on the walking sections. And it's been two days since I did the last run.

Well done on completing W3 Roll.

Hope all the injuries are healing nicely. My left ankle is slightly cranky still - strangely I have no pain at all when I run on it, but a few hours later and the first few steps have me hobbling a bit until it calms down.

W4R1 complete. It was surprisingly ok, but I was a little slower than I would've liked.

The usual well done to everyone else and hope the injuries heal.

I went back to W3 r2 today. I went on a womens march yesterday and although the march itself was short there was lots if standing around and i parked about a mile away, so this mornibf i felt quite achey and tired. I decided to take it a bit easy and found i could do it but a bit of a challenge.

Baby finally went to sleep so managed to do the last run of week 3 - was bloody freezing but glad I forced myself to go out!

The more the merrier roll. I iced my leg for 45 minutes when I got in and it's feeling much better now, if it's still ok on Tuesday I think I will do W4R1 as it's only 4 minutes on my app, then try 5 again on Thursday.

And welcome Roll :)

Sorry Chicken, I went ahead and did W4R1 this afternoon! I didn't fancy another early morning, dark, freezing cold run, and this afternoon was nice out, chilly but sunny so thought I would give it a go. It wasn't easy, but I managed to finish it albeit slowly. I think I'm definitely better going first thing in the morning though, as I ended up with a stitch which didn't help, and I don't usually have that issue in the morning.

It was strange though, I got the stitch and then Laura on the app started talking about more people getting stitches at week 4! But I think mine was because I didn't have an empty enough stomach. I hope it's not a recurring problem when I return to my morning runs.

Well done to everyone getting to this stage ... after we complete week 4, we're almost half-way through! Although this is probably the easier half

Hope injuries subside, Bijou that sounds pretty nasty, I wouldn't go again until it's fully better?

Chicken and waiting, I probably won't run again til Weds morning, so we'll be roughly at the same stage - good luck all!

Can i join? Am currently waiting for the baby to shush and go to sleep so I can go out!

About to finish week 3 here - only started back this week but found I didn't need to go right back to the start, yay!

Everyone is doing great - doesn't it help all being around the same stage?! Hope your injuries abate overnight bijouxx and captain. That's me finished W 4 R 2 tonight and it was okay but I think I am going reallllly slow - I suppose I can work on that along the way.. As usual I couldn't be bothered but so glad I made myself do it.

Ouch Captain and bijouxxx. Hope you both recover soon. Bijouxxx I wouldn't say you failed miserably - sounds like you did more than half the running and none of us could even run for five minutes a few weeks ago! That's not a miserable failure. That's real progress.

Chicken and Jess - Monday is start of W4 for me too but I can't go until the evening so hope it's not icy outside.

Well I have just tried and failed W4R2 miserably. As I started to walk after the first 5 minute run I got a shooting pain up my right leg and within seconds was in agony, by the time it came to running again it had eased up a lot so I started running but only lasted 2 minutes (wasn't even slightly out of breath though which was a positive!) I stopped and hobbled home and now the pain is getting worse and worse . Hopefully will be back to normal quickly!!

I use the Active C25K app. I think the runs are the same length as the NHS one.

Captain hope you're pain free soon. It's so frustrating when you want to exercise but can't.

Jess looks like we're on the same page. I'm also starting week 4 tomorrow, so good luck!

Cactus I use the fitness 22 '5k runner' app (yellow logo) and really like it, it is slightly more staggered than the official nhs one but I think you complete it in the same time, there's just 3 different length runs in some weeks rather than the same run 3 times, if that makes any sense!

Hi everyone. I was going to start a 9 week thing at the local rugby club to do c25k but I can't get childcare for the time it's on so have decided just to do it on my own at the gym.

Which is the best app for this? If I'm gonna do it I need all the help I can get!

Well done everyone! Sorry to hear Captain about your injury, hopefully it will get better quickly so as to not interfere with the program too much. I'll be starting W4 tomorrow, and it definitely helps that others have found it doable.

W3D3 done. On to week 4...

I did my short route today which unfortunately means the second two runs were uphill. It was tough. Still not convinced I will manage 5 minutes, especially with the short recovery times, but we shall see on Monday.