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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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JackBauer · 09/06/2009 21:39

I would go for time as well, it is your heartrate that is important, not how fast your legs are going!

How do you all time yourselves then? I am using music with songs that are a certain length, so when the track changes I know to run or walk. I only have a 'nice' analogue watch which I don't want to wear running.

AitchTwoOh · 09/06/2009 21:12

it's just his r2 show (with the music taken out cos of PRS presumably), really very amusing. i also listen to the archers and the friday night comedy stuff off radio 4. no wonder i'm so slow, ffs.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 09/06/2009 21:00

id say time btu i know nothing - when you can easily run for 20 then you might up to 25 and logically will run further. Tell me about these funny podcasts - are they free? i removed mine in the end as it was annoying me but then was more shocked at how loud i was breathing

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AitchTwoOh · 09/06/2009 20:58

see the thing is, i don't really like music. i know, that's weird etc etc but it's so BORING listening to music, no matter how bpm-tastic that i keep looking at my watch. whereas if i'm listening to the jonathan ross podcasts i spend my time sniggering and the minutes fly by. (while i myself stagger by).

so shoudl i concentrate on time or distance at this stage? i'm still gobsmacked that i can run for 14 mins In A Oner tbh.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 09/06/2009 20:38

did it - 25 mins w7r1 - decided to didtch rawb for 25 min part and did it to take that which seemed to affect my speed as i was down to 11min something miles rather than my usual 10 min soemthing. Also i think trying to sing whilst running hinders me and embarrases me to passer bys.

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Vulgar · 09/06/2009 20:33

Aitch - you sound like you are doing the same sort of speed as me. and distance.

I know i'm slow but as yet i can't run any faster. I did overdo it yesterday and I need a few days off unfortunately.

JackBauer · 09/06/2009 19:39

I start off Very Slow but pick my speed up so I am managing just over 2 miles in 26 minutes with 2 walking breaks.
Where are you running? I find I can go faster on straight paths, no grass as that slows me down.
Once you can do the minutes though the pace shoudl come.

Oh, and music helps (not rawbs, his taste in music is shocking) but I have found a good pace with Who Are You by The Who, if you want comparisons with how fast someone else runs?

AitchTwoOh · 09/06/2009 18:52

huff that sounds brilliant, well done.

AitchTwoOh · 09/06/2009 18:52

please can we talk about pace? i am Very Slow.
i can now run for 26 mins (with a 2 min walking break as per the bupa plan) but in that time i'm only doing 1.7miles or 2.8km if i want to make it sound like more.

should i just concentrate on getting my minutes up and hope that the distance will come? cos i'm getting lapped by pensioners...

HuffwardlyRudge · 09/06/2009 18:28

Well I'm a wally.

I went out to do 3 X 5m runs. Was too busy looking at ducks and forgot to stop running at the end of the first 5 minutes.

Never mind, I thought, I'll do 2 X 8m runs instead. Was too busy running extra fast past a bench of men and forgot to stop after 8 minutes too.

Next thing Rahhhb's telling me I'm half way through my 20 minute run .

I did 17 minutes and briskly walked home, pretending that was what I meant to do all along .

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 09/06/2009 18:27

lmao - yes i hate the dog turd dodging and oh bloody hell a road end if i have stop i wont be able to start again ponder

Not going till 7 - its really cold.

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JackBauer · 09/06/2009 14:41

Go on Nappy, it will be fine, and I love running in the rain as it hides the sweat quite effectively
Went out this morning for wk5r1, even though I missed r3 last week, and it went great! Didn't have to stop, ran along the seafront in sunshine and gentle breeze, lovely.

I am really enjoying it actually as I find I am so busy just keeping myself going that I don't have the energy to think about what's for tea, or what needs washing/cleaing or anything from teh day to day crap that takes over, so it is so nice to have that half an hour for
'ok, not much further, ooh look, a seagull, gosh, I've gone quite far, eurgh, dogshit, that's a good view, oh good, I can walk'
going through my head

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 09/06/2009 11:36

im going tonight - i am psyching myself up although its raining hmmm anyway im going to then that will be my last one till Sunday race day yikes! I should plan something suitable for tea for running on bur have opted to prepare a big sausage dinner

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Vulgar · 08/06/2009 20:12

You haven't wimped out, Nappy, you're resting your ankle.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/06/2009 19:11

I wimped out totally bone idle.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/06/2009 17:01

i havent downloaded w7 so was just going to run to w6r3 also....

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/06/2009 17:00

I have walked to school and back this afty - 2 and a half miles round trip and my ankle is niggling - thinking of wimping out too or i could have an ibuprofen and stop being a fanny and just go for it....

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Vulgar · 08/06/2009 15:51

I'm still alive Nappy

But paranoid that I'm gonna have a heart attack - arm still a bit numb but slept for 2 hours today when I should have been working.

I quite liked the music for w7 - hope I'm up for it on Wednesday.

Huffwardly- have another day off! But make sure you go tomorrow.

There! someone has made the decision for you!

HuffwardlyRudge · 08/06/2009 14:36

I can't even remember what run I'm on. Have been ill. Tentatively thinking about going for a run this evening. Don't really feel like it tbh. One more day recovery, or go for it?

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 08/06/2009 14:32

Week 7 is dull. Rawb tells you when you start, when you are half way through and when you end.

I did a week 7 run to week 6 (ie week 6 r3) and then did my own music.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/06/2009 13:06

VULGAR are you still alive? tellme about week 7 - worth bothering to download?

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/06/2009 13:04

hmmm, actually it looksl ike a borng as hell week! No rawb chatter then! 25 min stright runs this week so im thinking may as well run to my own tune for 25 mins or does he crack funnies and give you encouragement and break downs through out???? humour me....

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 08/06/2009 13:02

Oooo aretn we all still doing rather well! I am going to do week 7 r1 tonight - i havent looked at it yet though. Im realy tired today so hoping it wil energise me. My ankle feels fine today as well whichis a bonus

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LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 08/06/2009 12:38

Have looked on gmaps pedometer and seem to have covered 6.6 miles in total (with lots of walking). Took me about and hour and a half so it was 13.38 min/mile. Somehow I feel when I am running it should be rather more faster than it is (the running part was about 11.14 min/mile).

Oh well, next run is another day

TrillianAstra · 08/06/2009 12:10

Did W6R2 again - supposed to do R3 but R2 was hard enough for today.

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