More Couch to 5k encouragement!

Just got back from my repeat W3R2. Bloody hell it was hot, even at 7am. No way could I have gone any later.

@notaflyingmonkey Sorry your family are not supporting you. I'm a bit fat too and like you am doing this for me and my overall well-being, particularly given my recent health scare. Go out, get fit and prove them wrong!

@notaflyingmonkey that’s really crap! My family have seen me go From fat to fit and back again. And they’re nothing but supportive. My mum at 75 is fitter than me and she loves what I’m doing. I’ve just been for week three run three. Felt quite a bit better.

Thinking about it on my run I saw a young couple running together. He was quite a bit fitter than her, they must have been doing c25k but on all the walking intervals they held hands and it was so lovely.

@notaflyingmonkey I’m sorry your family are being shit! Ignore them.

@notaflyingmonkey I'm sorry your family aren't being supportive - I think that's really unfair as you are doing so well. Good luck with week 6 - we are at the same point.

Heading out in ten minutes to start week 6. I'd normally do the first three runs inside on a treadmill and then repeat the week outside but it's such a beautiful morning I want to be out in it.

I hate MapMyRun - I wear a Fitbit so that tracks it for me which is good. I'm slow as anything though so the distances aren't worth getting excited about but that will come once my endurance builds up.

Name change fail 🤦‍♀️

Gearing **

Thanks guys ☺️ @notaflyingmonkey I think I'll deffo take your view. Fuck em. I'll do this with or without their support. Although I did get a well done mum from my oldest DS (17). Hearing myself up for tomorrow's run, bought myself a decent pair of earbuds for it. If I manage tomorrow, my next treat is an industrial strength sports bra 😂

I've just stumbled across this. Glad I have found other newbies. DH occasionally runs and has been nagging me for ages to run with him but I have resisted because I was a bit embarrassed at how crap I would be. Just did W2 R2 with the DCs and DH. I am strangely looking forward to actually being able to run for a proper length of time. DD2 (age 10) is NOT happy about doing this.

toomanypillows - my sister runs a lot too** I do my runs earlyish and have one tomorrow. Again, thinking about it with the same mix of wanting to do it and yes, horror!!!

oceanpacific - stealth running my DH works shifts so is either long gone or still asleep. And I just haven't mentioned it to anyone else. I have a little daydream of announcing over Xmas dinner that oh yeh I've been running for 6 months and it's no biggie

Middle aged hefferlump here. Did a 20 minute 'run' this morning for W5R3, and am bloody amazed that I managed it. Trust me, if I can do it, anyone can, given I was in tears during W1.

Family deffo not supportive, and think I am making a fool out of myself. DH pretends it's not happening, or suggests a gentle bike ride instead (I don't have a bike). Fuck em I say. I am doing this for myself, and if I can't do a run or even a whole a week, I'll just repeat it.

@mizu we are at the same point I think. It's incredible to be running for these times. Love your stealth running. Have your family seriously not noticed?

@mizu that is very reassuring
Also, although you're further ahead than me, that's exactly how I feel: desperate for the walk and a weird combination of elation and horror at the thought of it.
My sister runs quite regularly - between 5 and 10k a few times a week, and she said she still feels like that, so I'm under no illusion that I'll ever learn to love it. I just want to be able to do it 😁

PS I haven't even told anyone - apart from two DDs - that I'm even doing it as I feared at the beginning that I wouldn't make it!

toomanypillows def no gazelle here.

I'm fairly slim though I haven't run since school so since 16!!! Now 47 and have never done much exercise. Walk a lot and fair weather cycle and a bit of yoga here and there but that has been it.

Don't want to lose weight but want to feel stronger so started couch to 5K a few weeks ago and it's bizarre..... It's actually working, meaning in the 1st week I struggled to do a minute of running and now, in the 6th week, I am doing a 10 min run, 5 min walk and 10 min run

It is not easy though and I find myself desperate for that ting ting, slow down and walk

My question to others is: is it normal to dread it and look forward to it in equal measure??

@mumto2unicorns and @thisenglishlife thank you!
I shall report back on Friday 😁😬

Anyway, just finished week2 run3 and am going to start week 3 on Friday. Does it genuinely get easier?
I did the W3R1 yesterday and it's OK as you do two 90 second runs and two 3 minute runs - so not lots of reps of the 3 minute runs.

@toomanypillows I find every run a struggle but the program works. Even though I want to give up as soon as I start I keep going. I have noticed that it is now more a head thing with me, my breathing is fine and I can keep going.

@Twilbury. Thank you. I shall keep the faith. Good luck 💪🏻

@Twilbury. Thank you. I shall keep the faith. Good luck 💪🏻

@witchofthenorth your H is putting you down because deep down he knows you’re putting him to shame. He’s frightened that you can do something he can’t.

Bloody well done! Keep showing him!

I’ve just come in from doing W6 R2. I had a lake swim this morning, too, so I’m going to ride round the block on my bike later. In my eyes, that’s a triathlon

@toomanypillows I definitely struggled with the first minute and now I am about to do wk 5 r3 tomorrow. That is a 20 min continuous run (plod) which is scary but I know the programme works so I just have to trust it will be OK.

Hello. I have been reading this thread for a while and found it encouraging and intimidating in equal parts 😂😂

Anyway, just finished week2 run3 and am going to start week 3 on Friday. Does it genuinely get easier? I just about managed running for the 90 seconds of week 2 but (I know I'm so unfit) I don't know if I will cope with the 3 minute runs.

And the very idea of running for 5, 10 30 minutes... It baffles me. Does it really work? Were any of you properly unfit in the first week and struggled with the 60 second run, or are you all secret gazelles just saying you did? 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

@witchofthenorth Well done on getting started - in many ways, I found the first run the toughest. Try not to let you "D"H put you off - you are doing it, and that is fab

@mumto2unicorns Wow - well done, and fab on the music too!

I was supposed to get out this morning, but woke up with a horrid head and feel rough as hell, so didn't Maybe tomorrow...