c25k week one day one!

Hello all. I got brave and decided to do a park run yest. I did it with Laura week8r3 on with me and so I ran for 28 min plus a wee bit more and walked up a hill the 2md time. Was most running I've done ever. Time was 38min59seconds. Which I'm delighted with.

Totally urge anyone to try a park run. So much kindness and support. Was just lovely.

Hope all who have had the lurgy are feeling better!

oh fiddie, that's a shame.....just repeat what you can do and build on that you will get there, w9 is 3x 30 and W7 was 3 x 25, so you are only 15 minutes away from the end...and less if you count the 28's you have done!

I am going to do another W8 when i have shifted this cold, no way will I be able to launch into W9

@Fiddie I know, it's so deflating to have to stop. Try to remember that it wont always be a linear progression - some days will feel like a step back.

I just went out again and managed to complete W8R3. It was shit and my legs feel like lead. Not sure whether I'm even going to attempt W9 this week, or if I need to get a few more 28 mins under my belt.

to everyone still plodding along

fiddie take a few days rest and then try again. Sometimes it is SO difficult and I think you need to listen to your body.
Mine is always telling me to eat cake though, so I try to ignore it!

Thanks Violet. I feel rubbish.

@fiddie high five we will get there

Bugger, totally failed. Could only do 7 minutes then felt like I was going to collapse, no way could I have gone on for another 21 minutes.

Will try again in a couple of days.

are you setting off at too fast a lick?? I can't remember which voice it is, but one of them reminds you to breath IN1-2-3-444444444444 and OUT1-2-3-4444.... are you concentrating on that? I know I find myself panting away if I feel the need for a bit of speed running from the zombies moment and as soon as I catch myself doing that I do the in and out counting and that really helps

I think my rest decision was wise, just had to run up two flights of stairs as I thought I heard the cat yakking up something, had to sit down before making my toast when I got back to the kitchen.

Week 8 is my nemesis. I've just had to abandon W8R3 after 10 minutes because I just couldnt breathe. Same thing happened on W8R2 last weekend.

Its so frustrating because I know I can do it. W8R1 was absolutely fine, as was my second attempt at R2.

Determined to try it again this evening.

you are all so fabulous running outside!! Especially in the rain whitelisbon
I am hiding in the shed on the cross trainer or treadmill sweating and wheezing.

I am going to give it a miss today, and chill with my germs, still very wheezy...I have been joking that dd has given me her asthma, but am beginning to wonder...too much cold air makes me wheeze, and every sniffle I get does too.

I've had a cough all week and really struggled just doing 20 minutes on Wednesday but slowed down (even more) and did 30 yesterday.

I feel so much better for doing C25K, I don't weigh myself but I am slightly more toned but more importantly my RHR has come down each month and it has helped my mental health through some stressful times.

I've had to have a couple of weeks off, as I've been ill and struggled to get from the sofa to the toilet!
Anyway, I went out tonight and redid w2r3. It was pissing it down with rain, and I got soaked, but I actually really enjoyed it for the first time, and didn't find it too difficult, surprisingly!
I wasn't sure if I'd manage or not, but w3r1 on Sunday now

I was supposed to do wk8 r1 on Wednesday but I've not been well. Full of cold and knackered so I put it off. I'm going to do it tomorrow.

i will see how it is tomorrow, but dh said I was wheezing like a old wheezy thing all night. I may just practice on the treadmill...see if i can keep my balance.

It's a good thing though isn't it...I am impressed with myself to be able to keep moving pretty fast for all that time
and I do not weigh, but certainly noting a smaller midriff and generally feeling less achey and lazy.

Keep it up everyone! It's good for us all!

MsMightyTitanAndHerTroubadours
I think they saying is that if it's in your chest, take a break, but it's ok if it's more just a headcold...go easy on yourself though! It wouldn't be the end of the world if you had to miss.
I'm on w8r1… heading out tomorrow. It might sound a little exaggerated, but I have genuinely found the whole couch to 5k life changing. I've lost a stone, would like to get off another half stone- but my mental health has improved drastically. I feel like I can manage stress better and just generally feel so much happier and content in my own skin.

i am so full of the cold, I feel dreadful!! ....is it better not to run, or better to do a slow and steady?

supposed to be W9R1 tomorrow, and I can barely breath just sitting here.

I'm doing w8r3 today.

W8r3 done.
I can’t believe that I’ve only got one week left!

I just listen to the rhythm of my feet and the birdsong. I always run outside and i just let my thoughts wander. W7R1 done today

I can’t run to music either, I get bored of it after a while and waiting for a song to finish feels like torture. I like the Empire movie podcast and also Stephen Fry’s radio 4 series Victorian secrets (about everything from sex to murder to seances) has been good recently

Vjg13 I am very late to this podcast series but I have been listening to Serial. I am engrossed! I also listen to the BBC film reviews and choose what movie to watch at the weekend!

Can anyone recommend some interesting podcasts, another one here bored by listening to the same music.

I'm on my second week of consolidating with 3x30 minute runs but have a cough this week and struggled through 20 mins only yesterday.

I started in the summer having not run since compulsory pe ended at 14! (Very long time ago) after 2 weeks I started parkrun - you can walk parts as needed. I've finished 18 now!

W1r1 done yesterday.

This thread is so inspirational.

Never ever thought I could run for 1 minute never mind 7 x 1 minutes

Go me! Looking forward to w1r2 on Saturday

W5R1 today and it felt better than W4. I have switched from listening to music to podcasts and am doing so much better. I always could gauge how long I had been running based on where I was in the song and I found it really demotivating knowing there was still so much song and therefore running to go. Listening to an interesting podcast distracts me and I just seem to get on with it.