C25k / couch to 5k - Spring 2019 new starters. All welcome!

Tried w6r3 this morning and failed miserably. My knees been playing up a little since the last run and every time I hit the treadmill on one leg I felt a twinge in the knee so I did about 9 mins running overall and fast walked the rest. Will have a couple of rest days and maybe go back a run to build up to it. Has anyone tried physio for knees? Wondering if that might help it

Week 3 done, but it felt quite hard tonight, especially the first 3 minute run.
On the positive side: I managed to go for the run when it wasn't raining and my route has some of the nicest views in London.

Thanks for the advise bwydda, I will check it out when I get to the hotel.

W5r1 here, so not far ahead of you bwydda!

It went pretty well, apart from the rain! Not sure when I will get the rest of the week done - weekend looks crazy!

Hopefully the weather will improve!!!

W4r1- what a jump! From 90 second and 3 minutes up to 3 minutes and 5 minutes, for me, was a real challenge. But I feel so good for having done it. In awe of all the people ahead of me

@nowayback I am terrible for running to fast and I have to really think about my pace. A couple of things have helped, one is having a few slower songs on my playlist and forcing myself to run to that beat.
The other probably wont help until your running longer intervals but it is setting my phone to show me distance and pace and knowing that at a nice pace for me is no faster that 6.15 mins per km.
Keep going I really struggled with running to fast and tiring myself out at first but I'm now into week 7. You'll get there

Sister - i go to two gyms with different treadmills- one has a touch screen where you can programme a touch two speed setting- that's brilliant!
The other you have to manually press the lever up to speed- takes a few seconds at most, and isn't too inconvenient

Just did W1R3. So not a runner!

Usually run round the small local park but road resurfacing meant I took a different route. Never again as I didnt realised the road we lived on was quite so uphill! Really struggled.

Anyone find they run too fast? I Kickbox and if we do a little jog warm up in class, im slower and find my breathing much easier. Im struggling to find that same pace when out on my own.

Achey knees tonight. Please tell me it gets better.

Thought I wouldn't be able to go out for W3R2 tonight as I was supposed to work long.
Stars aligned, I was home at 6:55pm and out the door not even 10 minutes later.

I'm going away for work at the end of next week and am not sure if I can run outdoors around there - so with the high probability that I sound like a complete numpty: How hard is it to run on a treadmill at different speeds? Never been on one before.

Well done :)

W3 r3 done today- I'm a few days late, so will have to do 4 runs this week, but am so proud I did it today. I barely slept and had a hard days work, but my dd encouraged me, bless her.

Feel far better for having achieved it

Morning all :)

I had a three week break due to moving house and various other complications. I had done W5R2 before I stopped and I very nearly gave up completely but I went out this morning in the wind and pouring rain and managed W3R1. I've gone back a couple of weeks as I knew my fitness levels would have been horrific but I'm really proud of myself!! I actually went out, and I managed the whole run. When Sarah told me to stop after the first 90 seconds I was really shocked how short it felt 🤣

Roll on Thursday. I can't go out on Saturday as got mad weekends coming up (seeing Backstreet Boys, Pink, Tom Jones, Madness, Rocky Horror show 🤣🤣🤣) but will do W4 Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week. I might even manage to crack the mental hurdle of W5R3 at some point!!!

Wow @outtheforest 4k is excellent. I haven't measured how far I'm running, just happy to get through the minutes.

After a week off running followed by a ten minute run 10 minute walk ten minute run my shin seems to have healed and today I managed week 7 run 1. Reached 4km in the 25mins and am amazed two months ago I couldn't run 500m without having to stop.

My planned W3R2 has been rained off. I don't mind going for a run in a light rain, but not in the downpour we had all day.

Well done everyone, also enjoying the lovely & supportive thread.

Did w6r1 this morning. Found it hard. Think I went off too quickly and also may have got a bit carried away after the euphoria of running for 20 mins last time. Follow the programme and keep it slow and steady....

Oh wow, thank you all! It is amazing what this programme can do for people isn’t it - really very uplifting. This is a very impressive community. Not managed a park run just yet, but so far have still run every other day, have completed the local 5k route, and am booked in for a 5k colour run next weekend with the dc, which should be fun.

I do like to still have Sarah millican as a comfort blanket in the background though - I haven’t graduated away from her just yet!

Really well done @crumpet!
This is so exciting and I hope you enjoy parkrunning! Being able to join parkruns is my aim too.

I need to do my last run for week 1 tommorow. It's been a nice gentle start overall and I've been matching run days to wash hair days because I find that my hair gets greasy more often with exercise.

When I started running last weekend I wasn't planning on dieting, just eating more healthily than normal. Then I started looking into healthy lifestyles, stumbled onto portion sizes and realised that I was eating far too much! I think I am properly eating more healthily now although I need to work on my water intake.

Do you think it would be ok to do more runs than the expected 3 each week as long as I left one day in between runs for resting?
I really enjoy the habit of running in the mornings and would rather go more often.

I did W3R1 this morning and when I head "and slow down" after the first 90 second run I was genuinely surprised that it was already over. The first three minute run seemed interminable, but the second one went quite well.
Weather was not good, rainy and quite windy, but it could have been worse, the rain could've been a lot harder.

I have to work a bit on getting out of bed and out the house for my Saturday morning runs.

Not to distant even!

Congratulations Crumpet, amazing achievement! Hopefully a few more of us will be joining you in the bit too distant future.

Well done on your graduation Crumpet!

I managed W6R3 today (also in the rain, yuck). 25 minutes solid of running.

For those of you earlier on in the program, believe me when I say that 3 or 4 weeks ago I would NEVER have believed I could do what I did today. I honestly thought I would die after W1R1. Somehow it just all becomes possible. Keep the faith and keep running!

Managed my run! And didn't even get too wet!

Definitely paced myself better this time -w4r2 compared to w4r1

Congratulations Crumpet

I'm another who starts too early, when doing a morning shift, to run early. Also more often than not I start at work having done a sleep the night before. Luckily for me I can run when doing afternoon shifts so generally I don't have too many problems, apart from the last two weeks where I've been working long hours and more morning shifts than usual. It's a good tip for those who can do it though. I do like running first thing in the morning and getting it out of the way. It makes me feel good and like I've accomplished something.

Wk8 r1 completed this morning. It went really well, even the uphill bits seemed easier today

Congrats Crumpet :)

If I tried to do the running before work I'd have to be out to door by 5:30, that's just a tad too early for me.
If I started work at 9 instead of 8, then that would be a perfect solution.