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C25K - What next?

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IsolaPribby · 21/04/2020 22:32

I am on week 9 of C25K. Sarah Millican is telling me well done, I've done it. Well, I can run (jog, lurch) continually for 30 minutes. But I am only covering about 3.5k, may be 4k on a good day, and that is including the warm up and down walks. So how do I progress to actually running for 5k? If you have done it please can you tell me how you got there?

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IsolaPribby · 22/04/2020 07:44

I'm not sure if that is encouraging or scary! I genuinely can't see myself running a marathon, I just want to run at a respectable speed!

Do you still do the 5 minute walk to warm up and down, or stretching exercises?

I have really enjoyed the app, but it's a bit frustrating that it's called Couch to 5K, but actually delivers Couch to 30 minutes.

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Runningonempty84 · 21/04/2020 23:19

You keep running 3-4 times a week; some shorter and faster runs, some longer slower runs.

Within a few weeks you'll find you're easily running 5k in half an hour. You'll sign up for a 10k race and then find yourself running 4-5 miles in your longer runs instead of 4-5k. You'll do the 10k and feel great. You keep running.

Then a couple of years later you discover you're accidentally running every day, you can run 5k in little more than 20 minutes, and you run marathons for fun. A long run in your mind is somehow now 15 miles or more. But you're the same person who once struggled to run for 5 minutes non stop.

It's strange. It never gets easy, but it takes longer for it to feel hard...