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

Hi everyone - i'm back after 6 days away and no running. I re-did W5R2 today as I was too cowardly to do 25 mins after a break

I'm gonna do it on Friday or Saturday.

Chinwag - I did get the book and jolly good it is too but I must make an effort to fill in the running diary.

wow - so many of you have gone so far since I've been away. Well done all! I must catch up!

Am very that some of you are losing weight. I can't stop eating at the moment. I must find some willpower from somewhere and stop snacking.

and hello to all the newbies- you won't believe how quickly you will see improvements.

Happy running.

Very true Jack. All my clothes fit better. People people telling me I'm looking good. And running for 5 minutes is not as hard as you think it will be!

Forgot to mention, for anyone lurking, I cannot believe that I have run for 5 minutes twice! I am a big girl, and not exactly fit, but it's baby steps and it is working.

I have also comfortably got into a pair of trousers that I couldn't sit down in as they were so tight, so have dropped a dress size, and am not eating any different! Awesome!

I managed to get out today thanks to my lovely, gorgeous friend watching DD's for half an hour.
I was supposed to use her treadmill but have decided I am treadmmill challenged, they just frighten me!

I did wk4r1, with the 5 minute runs. I have abandoned raahbert and instead made a playlist of songs with the same length as the runs, but forgot that my last choice (ahem...Mr Vain...) is 5.45 long, and I made it to the end! stupidly pleased with myself!

Haven't run since Saturday. Is my biggest gap since starting this.

Will either run this evening when DH gets back (although it will probably not be until 9 or 10 so may not) or tomorrow morning when DD is at pre-school.

Would appreciate being checked up on lol

go huff go!

yay! wk1 down, will start wk2 tomorrow. I even went for a run at the weekend and took the buggy with ds. such a lovely thing to do on a sunny morning. lets see how wk2 grabs me...

Couldn't run today, DH called into work early and put DD2 napped for first time in ages so couldn't use my friends treadmill as didn't dare wake her.
Am going to go as soon as DH wakes tomorrow, he is at work until 10 though so god knows when that will be!

... and I did. Week 4 complete.

I am going to go for a run this evening. I definitely am. Cross my heart and hope to, well, not die, but something quite inconvenient.

I will go.

I will I will I will.

It's OK - you just keep going somehow

Not sure when DH will get back tonight - might try an evening run.

W6R1 this morning (before it got too hot, or that was the plan). Was fine. at the idea that an 8 minute run is no big deal. I don't like how run3 of this week is longer than everything else put together, including the walks! Scary!

well done all of you for todays running - you did well nappy for nearly getting to the end before it started to hurt.

i did w2r1 this morning - dd (nearly 8) is off for half term so she was my personal trainer!! she was on her bike and had rawb in her ears - she took great pleasure telling me to run - didnt entirely trust her to tell me when to walk!!! i know i ran for longer but was confused why i was recovering for longer? 90 secs run and 2 mins walk? i'm sure it gets more running next week!

resting till thurs now - too much on on weds to run!

I am probably not going to run until Wednesday, if then as have to do markign which I think might need to be done tomorrow when DD is at pre-school.

Hmm

Didn't run last week. No excuses. Too lazy.

W6R1 today in theory but it's too sunny, going to have to wait til later I think.

I can't figure out how to easily do a podcast so I have made a playlist of songs that are the length of the walk or run! So I just change speed when teh track changes.
Will try it out tomorrow...

Hello all. Well, I took a week off after hurting my back (the irony after wishing everyone else well with their injuries) and went into week 4 this morning. The last 5 minute run was a bit of a struggle and I am now a beetroot runner too...just my luck that this will be a really hot summer when I am trying to get to 5k!

I seem to be going backwards!! (not literally )

I did 25 mins non stop a few weeks ago, and then started the Bupa 10k plan, which begins with 15 mins + 15 mins. Had a break for a week or so cos my hips hurt, and now I can't do this at all!! Feels like a real struggle.

Ugh. W3 R3 almost completed in over 30 degree heat. I had to walk about 30 seconds too early for the last bit of the first 3 min run, I just had nothing, but then I slowed down (even more...I could barely overtake a pensioner walking now) and managed the rest.

For those with knee pain I finally tracked down my brother last night, who is a top class cyclist and lectures in sports science even though he is still doing his masters.

He says that the knee and upper calf pain can come from instability, made worse by the weight being put up your poor unsuspecting knees. His solution is to run on as level ground as possible, and ground that is firm.
In order,
FIRM grass is the best, as in level, and not boggy. (This was my problem, have run through most parks in swansea to find firm grass!)
Then paths, then boggy grass and last sand as there is no give.

This is not professional advice BTW, just what my bro told me over the phone. I ran on level(ish - I do live in Wales donchaknow) paths and my knees are nowhere near as bad as they have been.

W4 R2 completed in 37 degree heat. Didn't bother to slow down between the last 2 running sections. Am enjoying it.