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

Oops I thought I'd attached a pic otherwise my post makes no sense - my first 25 mins non-stop today. I took it really slowly but did it!

Even the road signs were spurring me on this morning! 🏃‍♀️

I did it! I ran for a whole minute at the end of the run :) I felt like I was going to die but I didn't :)

hippermiddleton my period made a big difference to my runs, I was much more sluggish.

Urgh. Does everyone else have Bad Runs without warning? For some reason, after a few weeks of actually feeling like I was getting somewhere, tonight was miserable from the first step of the first run (I'm repeating W5R1 a couple of times). My period's started, so it could be that. Dragged myself through it, but feeling shattered now.

Maybe it's time to face W5R3 and just do it. This'll be my 5th(?) time through C25K so I know it can be done but it always feels so WTF?! when you're looking at it from the start of W5!

I've just joined a local runners group who are doing couch to 5k tonight. Here I am at 19 stone about to make a fool of myself!

Hmmm could be that it does that. Will try it out

Does it stop when your phone darkens the screen? You can set the app to keep working. Mine also stops if anyone rings me

I've stopped using it now I'm in week 7 and am using Samsung health instead as I am more interested in distance than time. I set it for 3.5k and walk the first 500m then run the rest.

Which app do you all use? I am using the BBC get inspired one with Spotify in the background and the first week it all went well and now it keeps crashing. I start running out walking and then when I go in to check the app is no longer working. Did others have this issue? Any tips? Currently doing week 3

I hear you about the photography. They do this at both my local park runs and I fucking hate it.

Ok so I need a bit of a reality check. I’ve entered a 5K race in June and am seriously having second thoughts about it. Not because I don’t think I’ll be able to run that far by then but it’s the idea of being timed and running in public that horrifies me. My boyfriend was running in a ‘fun’ run today and just the idea of lots of people cheering me on and possibly photographing me just makes me want to hide under my duvet forever and never move again.

Hello. Hope you don’t mind me sticking a post in. I’ve been lurking on this thread and the last. Just wanted to share that I started in January, got a bit side tracked by work and weather in Feb-March, and picked it up again in April. Got to the 20 min run the day after a huge row with my brother, so was fuelled by fury and ended up just running for 30 mins instead, a bit like a short version of Forrest Gump!

I sort of abandoned C25K after that as I found going back to walk/run really difficult. I just started doing the warm up, running for as long as felt bearable or I had time for, and then the cool down, but still listening to Laura as a friendly voice! I managed my first ever ParkRun at the end of April without stopping and have now run 5k four times. I am overweight and in my 40s and remember when I was bricking it at the 3 min run in week two.

So I feel really proud of myself but wanted to say after my lurking that so many posters on here totally inspired me and to say thank you to you all. Keep on running!

@Pardalis it's my only lie in too as DS is with his father on Friday nights. I haven't done Parkrun mind, but I do my third run on a Saturday so hoping once I've finished the program to do the Parkruns once a week

It's the fact that I work Monday to Friday and out the house 12 hours a day. I love not having to get up on a Saturday!

@Pardalis can you use it as a slot for one of your runs each week?

Hurrah for medal. I now really want one.
Would like to do Park run but put off about the fact it's a Saturday. It's my first lie in of the week!

I did something I had never even dreamed of . . . I entered a family run in Bristol with my 5 year old DS - just a mile around the harbourside. My DS hated it - whinged and cried the whole way round (and then was fine within a minute of finishing!!!) but I managed 16 minutes of running (with only the smallest amount of walking to tell DS to stop whinging!). I had completed W5R2 before that so it was about right really, but now thinking W5R3 is actually manageable. And I got a medal!!! 🏅 🏃‍♀️🏅

@BedraggledBlitz I found that one hard too but thought if I don't plough on I'd get stuck so I tried W5R1 and found it OK. Crack on!

Hi all! Hope you've had a nice bank holiday (or nice Monday if you're not in England!).

I did w4r3 today. I did it but I found it tough. I'm wondering if I should repeat w4 or just plough on...

I'm on week 4 ... found it tough today but that's mainly because I've eaten nothing but crap for three weeks now and it's impacting on me. So I'll go back to healthy tomorrow. But I looked ahead to week 5 and 😬😱 is it really do-able?? 5 mins was really tough and that's got a 20 minute straight? Seems such a jump.

Just done W6R1. Can't quite work out whether it was harder or easier than the 20 minute run!

I bought some running tights from decathlon that have a key pocket in the waist band and a phone pocket on the leg. They are fab and really comfy.

@MsAwesomeDragon I felt exactly the same. I'm 44, at least 4 stone overweight and permanently knackered. But I'm now about to start week 5 and never in a million years did I think I could run for 5 minutes straight.

I've been getting a lot of ankle pain so I've just invested in some proper running shoes but behold that I was just wearing cheap New Balance trainers. Sports bras were from M&S.

I bought a bum bag type belt from Amazon that I fit my phone into.

Good luck! You can do this. If you're on FB there's a great group in there which is really supportive in addition to this thread.

@msawesomedragon some people really recommend running belts. I haven’t got one yet but might invest if I keep this up!

I’m on w4r3 today. I can’t believe that I can run for 5 minutes a time. I’m scared to look ahead at what’s the come but I am just feeling so pleased. I feel the best I’ve felt mentally for a long time! I just need to stop eating allllll the food now

Hi all, you seem to be doing so well everybody. I just can't imagine running for so long but I'm going to give it a go. I'm fat and unfit.

For anyone who is also fat, what do you wear for running on the streets? I have a decent sports bra, and decent trainers. In the past I would have worn leggings and a big t-shirt, but now the big t-shirts are all significantly smaller than they used to be , and they do not cover my bum. And where do you put you phone/keys while you're running? Nothing has pockets!

I'm planning on doing w1r1 on Tuesday, and hope to do Tuesday, Friday, Sunday every week.