New year C25K. Anyone care to join me?

Although Runkeeper went funny and decided I actually did it in 25 minutes, which is just ridiculous. It said 42 mins when I stopped it at the end, then I went into the app and it decided it was 25. Apparently I ran at 8 mins per mile. I wish.

Just in from my w5d3 run! I did it! I even kept going a little bit more and did 3 miles in total with walking at the beginning and end. Took me 42 minutes. So pleased :)

Oh no Captain hope you're ok. Well done on doing the extra though.

I did just over 6km this morning - ran for just over 5k of it. Was exhausting and I'm quite slow but really pleased I did it.

Oooh good luck today Pink!

I wish I could get out for 6am. I have done in the past but it doesn't happen often. I do feel better for running in the morning. My husband often gets up early to go for a run, but he's an early bird whereas I am definitely not. And we can't go out at the same time as we have a little one.

W5D3 here today, so a 20 min run I think? Will see how I get on. I'll be going out this evening when husband is home.

Well done B 6am...very impressive!
I've been for a long walk....doing W8, R3 tomorrow.

6am run done. Wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it woukd be.

Yheyyyy @Pinkvici22!!! You are a machine!!
Great news @Weewilliewinkie! You're back out there! Well done!
I have put my kit down next to my bed. Maybe I'll do a 6am run. Maybe!!

I can't believe it. I've just done W8 R2 which means my next run will be 5k!

W5D2 done this afternoon. I managed to keep running a bit longer after the second 8 minute run was done, as I had a bit further to go to get home, I think I did about 12 minutes altogether before I stopped to walk to cool down.

I haven't been at all since my last post. Just posting to shame myself really. Had the last 2 weeks of high-stress tight-schedule work, however, so am hoping to sort myself out again this week. I really need to work out how to keep going when my schedule is busy, though, as that's always when it drops - and when it starts dropping, I go straight to nothing very quickly.

I did!
It was a long and winding one.
At one point I could see the finish and was all 'THANK GOD' and then the wretched path kept going because we had another kilometer to go.
I did run the majority though.
Going to have breakfast and then poke my son for junior parkrun.

So bwatch? Did you do it??

I had every intention on going to my first parkrun this morning, but my husband got up at 6:30 with the five year old and let me have a lie in. I woke at 9:15 Ah well, there's always next week.

I do need to get out today though, I'm on wk5d2 and have got my Race for Life four weeks tomorrow.

Don't forget your barcode @BWatchWatcher!! No tips really (I'm not exactly an expert). Get there in reasonable time as there's a first timers briefing about the course. Enjoy feeling like a runner and don't be put off by the fact that children, the elderly and walkers are all beating you (that may just be me!). The only competition is the voice in your head telling you to stop. You're lapping everyone still in bed. Feel free to add your own platitude

Ooo meant to add that there's an app called Yoga Studio that has great post run yoga.

Well done folks! Glad to see everyone is still pounding away.
I was going to get up at 6am and run, but I woke at 5:15 and then went back to sleep, only to wale up at 6:40 and then my run time had gone.
I thought I might do a parkrun tomorrow. First ever! Aghhh
Any tips @IWannaSnack?

I do these exercises before I go out of the house, I do think they help. The five minute walk didn't feel enough for me to be warmed up properly.

www.runnersworld.com/the-body-shop/five-exercises-to-do-before-every-run/slide/5

Morning all. I managed a 25 min run last night so starting week 8 on Saturday!

I just do a 5 min walk to warm up. Then I do the 5 min cool down walk plus a bit extra usually then stretches.

Oh and I keep meaning to ask. Do you all do a warm up before the podcast, stretches and things, or just do the 5 min warm up walk?

Wow Madcats, that's quite a distance, well done!! I've been a bit disappointed with the distances I've been doing, and I suspect that I won't be running 5k by the end of week 9, but then I do have quite little legs

It was so windy this evening, I felt like I was running through treacle!

Did you manage W5 R3 before your pedicure Captain?

I am in shock (in a nice way). I gave myself a stern talking to and made myself put my trainers on. It was supposed to be wk8r1 for me (since I'd not managed a 25 min run I figured I would map out a longer route and give up on that too). Laura crashed on me, but Runtastic says I did 5.44km (includes about 4 mins of the warm up but not the walk home)!

If Boobie hadn't posted to say she needed to do that run I would probably still be sat in front of my computer. We are soo close to completing this.

Looking back, week 7 was unpleasant. It just seemed like too much of a jump (possibly psychological) on the NHS programme. I possibly needed Laura to talk to me a bit more regularly.

Weewilly don't worry too much about wk5r3. You'll feel really pleased when you've done it.