The Couch to 5k 2011 Thread continued : Let's Keep on Running :0)

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More space for us to talk about our progress on the C25K programme, the highs, the lows, the hills, the rain, our pelvic floors and our choice of running music!

All are welcome on this international thread, stay with us and enjoy success

< Piste passes out celebratory glasses of wine to all runners >

Everyone got one?
Cheers!!!!

Still here, but away to get chanced....

honest .
Am nervous about doing 5min run for the first time. [scared emoticon]

chanced ? Changed!

I'm back! It wasn't as bad as I feared.

But i felt as desperate need for the loo after the thrid run. Is that my weak and feeble pelvic floor? Please tell me it wasn't.....

Well done Jelli - fabulous

Re needing the loo...... Maybe, you just needed the loo?
< trying to be kind >

No, I did go before I went IYSWIM . I'm still feeling the urge now to be honest. I think I need to work on my pelvic floor (having avoided it for years) now... Ho hum.

you wouldn't be the first jelli

Slutty, Slutty, Slutty, Slutty, SLUTTY SLUTTY SLUTTY!!

I've had a great idea - you should put yourself up for carrying the Olympic torch when it comes! You could design a feature in the lingerie collection to hold the torch, thus keeping your hands free to wave at the crowds! Genius! Plus it would be an opportunity to showcase your collection to the whole world!

W3R3 done. At 6 o'clock in the bloody morning. Easier than W3R2. Got some abuse from some lads in a Corsa but coudn't ear what that said. hurrah for MP3 players.

Hope everyone else is ok.

yyyyyyYYYYYY Y Y Y

Still remembering I have a financial cut on this collection x

Oh pants. Have got a bit behind, had a nasty bug. Haven't done W3R2.

Just heard on the news that the Olympics will be looking for "inspirational torchbearers". Sounds like you Slutty. Holding a flame in your bra would be truly inspiring.

@Nimpy - you can't help being poorly. W3R2 will happen when it happens.

Slutty. I have a new idea for the lingerie collection. I could do with some reinforced running pants . I attempted to lengthen my stride on last night?s run, I felt like a proper runner but my butt cheeks were bouncing around all over the place .

I am embarrassed to have been AWOL for over a week, but RL has got in the way. I have run 2x this week, seem to have slipped a bit in terms of fitness but reckon that some running is better than none, right? I will do it, I will, I will, I will, I will!

Am going to enter a 5k in July to give myself something to aim for. Hurray!

good to be back . Have I missed any songs?

Well, I am now thoroughly depressed. Doing ok on week 2, back out again tomorrow morning for w2r3 but made chronic mistake of weighing myself last night and... I've not lost anything. I'm about a stone overweight and have not eaten any chocolate for the last 2 weeks plus eating more healthier in general and nothing's changed !!!

Anyway I've decided I may venture out onto the streets of London on Saturday morning and pootle around the roads for a bit, sounds more appealing that hotel gym. Think I'm not far from the British Museum so will have a run around that area I reckon.

Nimpy Don't worry, illness happens the main thing is you get back into it.

KateMEyebrows Good to see there's someone other than me who does the 6am run, I'll trade your Corsa drivers for my leering HGV truckers

Jelli well done on the run

Sybil I'm with you on this one, some running definitely betetr than none, I'm entering a 5k in July too for some motivation.

Am now seriously tempted to eat the Caramac that my workmate bought me from hols and the Italian choccy wafer biscuits she gave me as well.

yippie! week9day1! but now I have some discomfort on inside lower calf close to ankle. am I stretching wrong? not enough?

SirCharlieSS maybe you should take your measurements with a tape measure. I started my fitness crusade with 30Day Shred and I didn't lose any lbs for quite a while on that BUT as i had taken my measurements I could see that I had dropped inches.

Ratherbe x eleventy million! Am almost positive I could squash an Olympic torch in there too, beside all the other little pouches and hidey holes - a bit like the flower container thingy inside the M&S trollies no? Cheque is in the post. Am chuckling away here, kids think I am clearly doolally.

Justaminute - y y y to the Reinforced Butt Cheek Panels - I could do with some of those - not ran this week because of stupid dodgy foot, so feeling bereft. Bereft I tell you! Me. The shirker at the back of PE class actually missing running!

I blame you lot.

Yikes i've not been on here for ages, iPod still broken and can't face running without it. I'm going out running with a friend tomorrow night - well she's run the marathon in the last 2 years and thinks I'm kidding when I say I can only run for 3 mins at the most and need to power walk in between! I keep telling her i'm only on week 3 but she thinks I can run with her for her 45 minute route wish me luck!

Well done to everyone who is out there running :) , commiserations to those who can't for some reason or another :(.

• am thinking of putting on my iPod for the next run- what d'you think?

Eat the Caramac SirCharlie.

@bluebump - I once ran with someone who claimed to be unfit and was 6 inche taller with legs>armpits (unlike my stumpy excuses for legs). Unmitigated disaster. She ran FAR too fast, couldn't understand why I couldn't keep up, and it put me off running for 6 years, as I just concluded I Couldn't Run. Just be careful it doesn't do bad things to your motivation.

Aside: this is the first time after numerous attempts that I've actually stuck with C25K into week 4. I think it's because I'm doing a run every other day rather than 3x/week iyswim. I put it into the diary, and run no matter what. When it was x3/week I was always skipping days and it would take 8 or 9 days to complete a 'week'. When 'week' = 6 days, it really keeps my routine and motivation up.

And I saw something about this on another thread and now I think I need one for the dark winter mornings because I won't want to get out of bed. Anyone got one? What do you think? Or is it a big pig in a poke?

sybil - or ?

If I'm still running in September (and I hope I am) I'm going to buy a treadmill then.

I really want one now. Have convinced myself I need one. But if they are so good, why do I see so many second hand and on eBay? Are they a one hit wonder like Chesney Hawkes? Hmmm. Me wanty though.

Eyebrows - we WILL still be running come September :)

W3R3 done. Slowly. Hmph.

Had a strong headwind though.