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

Does anyone else run and think they could walk faster? Or is it just me!!
I don't meet many walkers but when I do I aim to run past so I know I'm doing ok!

Thanks @RainbowFox, that was my general thought too

I was due to do W2R1 yesterday but I've had a shitty few days of the toddler not sleeping and a bad shoulder injury keeping me awake at night so just have no energy or motivation ☹️ I can't even muster the energy to walk to the shop or get in the car. Just feel so sleep deprived.

CognitiveDissonance as long as you have a rest day between runs then you can keep going with the plan and finish it quicker. Only repeat runs if you feel it would help.

Morning all, I completed W2 R2 yesterday and felt really good about it.
Does anybody run more than the scheduled 3 times a week? And if you do, do you double up on some of the runs or just move on to the next scheduled runs even if that means completing runs from two weeks in one?

Week 3 run 1 completed! Super chuffed with myself. It was harder but nowhere near impossible!

I completed wk1 r3 this morning. I'm not sure whether I'm more proud of the fact I completed the run or that I managed to drag myself out of bed at 6am to do the run 😂

It's 'only' a 5K race on June 16th which is the week after I finish C25K so I'm hoping I can do it. My boyfriend is talking about entering it too but I'm not sure if I want him to, he's been running for years so 5K is nothing to him whereas it'll possibly kill me!

MyGast I know how you feel. If you’d told me a month ago I’d be running for a whole 3 minutes at a time I’d have laughed.

But it’s so well designed, it is doable, that’s whats so great about it.

I am bricking it about going up to 5 minutes next week tho!

Hi dory It will have to be tomorrow as the rest of the week is manic here.

Wow @MyGastIsFlabbered when is your race! That's something to keep you focused! I'd love to be able to do a run for next year... need to get fitness and then somehow figure out how to fit it in outside lol

Hi @Howlongtillbedtime we're dead on the same point! When are you doing run 2?

W2R1 done...that was tough, I'm not gonna lie. At the moment the idea of running for 5 minutes let alone 5K seems completely unachievable. I've just entered a race...I must be mad.

Another newbie here. I completed the programme 3 or 4 years ago and ran regularly but haven't done it for ages so I am now starting again.

Week 1 run 1 done . Was harder than I remembered but I know it works so I am sticking with it.

I swear our phones stalk us @newroundhere

I'm hoping to find a love for it too. Would be so much easier if we enjoyed it. I used to love spinning but it's just impossible to fit the gym into my day and isn't the same from home

Am I the only one getting running ads now?!

Hi all, I also did W1R1 at the weekend and am trying to muster up the enthusiasm for the next run. I did a similar programme about 7 years ago and got to 10k in the end but I hated every single step . I'm hoping to find a bit more enjoyment and achievement in it this time otherwise I'll never make the habit stick...

Hi 👋🏻 can I join? Just started and done w1 r1 today x

Wk5 R1 tomorrow!🙈 lets hope I'm still alive and kicking to bake my daughters birthday cake after!

Has anyone tried to incorporate running into their commute? I have a mile walk to the station in the morning and about the same at the other end and fancy running it. Or rather part of it. Or maybe even eventually! It's just the faff of having to shower and get changed at work that puts me off a bit.

Pardalis that’s just what my friend did, she ran for 3 mins on her last 2 runs and found it fine.

I was really surprised at how easy I found it today, very pleased I repeated week 2, I was definitely ready to move on this week.

Even better. Fitbit shows my resting heart rate has dropped by a good few bpm and their heart health calculation shows an improvement in just 3 weeks, so chuffed!

I'm psyching myself up for week 3 too. I've just come back from a repeat of week 2 run 3. On the last run I kept going after Sarah said stop. For about another 30 seconds. I just needed to break that mental barrier in preparation!
I'll start W3 on Tuesday

Just psyching myself up to do week 3 run1.

Week 3 is definitely going to be done over 2 maybe even 3 weeks because due to the Easter hols I can only get 2 runs in for the next fortnight.

I was actually having dreams last night about what route to take. Also dreamt I’d gone to someone’s house on DHs motorbike and then had to run but I only had flip flops with me 😜🙈

I avoid hills like the plague! I drive to avoid!

Haha Curls I do my recovery walk uphill and when Sarah Milligan says "ready for your next run" I just turn around.

To anyone watching it must look like I'm having doubts about whether I locked my front door.

Bedraggled I absolutely plan my runs to avoid hills! Which is extremely difficult where I live, I have to endure a few, I just go for the easiest I can, lol.

My brother always complains when he comes to visit. He lives in a very flat part of the country and has gone from never running to regularly doing 5-6k a few times a week. It makes me laugh when he visits and goes ‘but, there’s hills here!’

Can’t say I blame him, I love running (plodding) downhill and feeling like a proper athlete, lol.