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The new couch to 5k thread......

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 23/05/2009 18:21

I was waiting for someone else to start it but had to take the plunge to tell you i just did my w5r3. I managed it but am hurting. Started off too quick and was wrecked 5 mins in but slowed it down - kept going and got to about 14 mins in when my ankles started really hurting - i kept on going anyway and was v relieved when raaawb said that was it - i then proceeed to hobble home - the bath is filling as i type and my ankles are painful but still that i did it.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/07/2009 15:50

oh the excuses are rolling out lol! i am supposed to go tonight but have to work - was tempted to go in my running gear and run home but theres a good chance i will have to stand up and talk to 20 people in a parenting class so best not

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LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 08/07/2009 14:52

I might go tonight as DH says he'll be home "in good time" (meaning probably about 8 rather than 11).

canella · 08/07/2009 11:15

now my turn to look menancingly!!!!!

GET OUT THERE AND RUN!!!

i'll be back!!

InTheZenGarden · 08/07/2009 09:11

Supposed to be running tonight. But legs still killing from the weekend, it is going to be a struggle tonight. But I will do it It is only w1r2, can't really not do it, can I?

tryingtocookacurry · 08/07/2009 08:30

Have also failed to run this morning. But i did do mon and tues so it felt like my body was screaming "no more" this morning.
Will run tomorrow!

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 08/07/2009 08:22

Have failed to run

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 07/07/2009 22:31

I'm intending to run early tomorrow morning. Shall see if my intentions actually work .

My RFL is in St Albans.

JackBauer · 07/07/2009 21:17

Ooh, mine ons 19th as well

Didn't get ouwas all planning to go out early before DH went to work, and then forgot to take my kit out of the tumble dryer, and I daren't run without my super duper bra so went back to bed instead.
Will go tomorrow, honest

(Am a bit scared now, canella, is this karma?)

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 07/07/2009 15:58

I have done it a few times before but without managing to do longer than a few weeks training. Last year was my best and I think it was about 36 min. So surely I can be quicker this year with all my training .

It's on 19th July

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 07/07/2009 13:24

Yes i agree - i think i aimed for 45-50 mins but actually did it in 34 i think - that was with a few little walks as well. I just seemed to get carried along with the crowd and one woman kept overtaking me so i made it my thing to overtake her everytime she walked lol!. However long it takes its amazing and the atmosphere is great. I went along for a gentle jog with 2 friends but one of my friends from work i went with got us to the front of the runners to start then just as we were about to start she turned round like a true competetive psycho and growled "goodl uck ladies but remember its a feckin race" - then she burned us off - it was hillarious!

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InTheZenGarden · 07/07/2009 13:16

LovelyRita - sorry, don't know your history - have you done RFL before? (assume we are talking Race For Life?) I have done a few (years ago mind, no way I could do one atm!) and I was surprised at how easier it was to keep running when there are lots of you around. I was running with my MIL and SIL and just running with them made it easier, we kept telling ourselves we could keep going! SIL even made us do a sprint finish (last 100m) which was a killer but felt fantastic. There were people cheering us on all the way.... I suppose what I'm saying is that running with a few thousand other women, of all shapes, sizes and abilities, for a very noble cause, is very different from running on your own, listening to an MP3, when you've just come back from work and are knackered!

Hope you enjoy it - when is it?

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 07/07/2009 13:12

I know I can run for 5km, but not as quickly as I'd like ie not quite as quickly as 33min.

Will try and speed up in my practising I think.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 07/07/2009 12:53

if you aim fo it taking 33 minutes of steady running you could do 15mins a 3 min walk and another 15 min run and be somewhere near the end. Or you could try and run it all get totally knackered and have lots of sporadic walks?

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 07/07/2009 12:45

Hi ladies,
am back out tonight for a run but because I was in London on Sunday I didn't get chance to go... am feeling worried that I have lost momentum.
am definately going to go tonight though.

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 07/07/2009 12:35

I can't decide whether to run all of my RFL or whether to walk a little. I think I would be quicker overall to walk a little but would feel more achievement from running all the way.

Hmmm.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 07/07/2009 10:41

Ah Canella just came to check up on you - good girl lol! I think if i miss some i will always go back to week 6. Last night i was going to see if i could go on to a week 8 level but see there must be good reason now why week 7 is a week of 3 25 mins as i couldnt hve gone on another second. So when i said i could go and go that was like up to 24min 59 then i couldnt . I am itching to go out again .... wil wait till tomorow though as ds isnt well today - although he perfomed like a healthy child at the doctors!

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InTheZenGarden · 07/07/2009 10:27

What was it nappy said?

Oh yes....."you will be itching to get out again by tomorrow but remember to abide by your rest days"

Ha ha ha I don't think so. Everything aches - not sure if this is due to run yesterday or hike on Sunday, but I never knew I had this many muscles!!

Am out for a meal tonight anyway, so no worries about being tempted out for a run

tomorrow's the day

Montifer · 07/07/2009 08:59

Jolly good Canella, I was just coming to check on you
Hope you enjoyed your run

canella · 07/07/2009 08:54

OMG - you lot are so scary!!!!
but you can all go back to being smiley cause i've been out!!!!!!!!

did w6r1 again - that was the last one i did so back on track now!!!

but i promise you lot i'll never miss a week again (i'd be too scared!!!!)LOL!!!

Montifer · 06/07/2009 23:13

Always good to hear about everyone's achievements.
Well done Zen, I too was embarrassingly puce after W1 runs but the great thing about this thread is there's always someone slightly ahead of you celebrating their extra minutes / speed. And after a few weeks there's usually someone just behind you, amazed at how knackered they were after running for a minute at a time
Just finished W3 and I'm definitely less puce than a couple of weeks ago, but ouch the knees! Really sore, especially as I start each run interval and then they seem to ease into it a bit.
Will do lots of stretching and see how W4 R1 goes on wednesday, maybe some new trainers might help.
Canella - have you been out yet????

InTheZenGarden · 06/07/2009 21:37

Thanks Nappy Got both messages Not sure the people of Nottingham are ready for me to release my armpits yet though

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 06/07/2009 20:46

Canella i am staring at you also menacingly - what you doing now - it cant still be lightening? come on ..... move it move it move it!!!

I just went out in my new vest and it was so great to release my armpits and feel the breeze blow through them . I didtched rawb and set my watch for 25 mins and zoned into take that although a shane ward song did appear for soemreason hmmm. ANyway i felt like i could go and go - managed the 25mins and did a new route that took in 3 teeny tiny gradients which added a bit of excitement and power pumping arms - coverd 2.4965 miles and computed a 10:000.84 minute mile. I am mightly pleased. So where was i oh yes

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 06/07/2009 20:32

ooops inthezen i posted to you on your vest quandry thred so i will copy and paste...

Well done inthezen - you will be itching to get out again by tomorrow but remember to abide by your rest days. W6r3 repeat for me tonight so back to 25 mins straight off though if im still feeling perky (v unlikely ) i will go for the 28 which is were i got up to before ankle trouble. It is thunder and lightening atm though so i might never get out. I treat myself to a new vest to run in today though and some flowery running shorts

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JackBauer · 06/07/2009 20:03

I will stalk you round MN if you don't go, you know.
I have nothing better to do! (apart from watch DD's, obviously, and run myself, but apart from that...)

canella · 06/07/2009 19:36

welcome greyskull!!

curry - i never thought i'd run 20 mins but i did and so will you!! wanted the rocky music to play at the end though!!! good thing about rawb is that for that first 20 min run he's counting the different times for the other runs that week so it helps to let still to go!!

i'm letting myself down at the mo - i took last week off because we were so busy but then this morning it was torrential rain so i said i would go out this evening but then it was thiunder and lightening!! so now i've not been out for 9 days!!!!!!!
so i NEED to be out tomorrow rain or shine!!
Motivate me people!!!

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