Starting C25K 19/11

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Anyone want to join me? It means we should start 2012 being able to run 5k - now there's an incentive to stick with it.

I quite agree but would also add Alexander Skarsgard as my nomination for perfect TV vampire.

Week 7 Run 1 complete

Another 25 mins. 75.69km in total

Yay! Well done. I'm loving the cumulative milage.

I had an accidental run on Friday. I recently qualified as a walk leader for walking for health and I led my first route on Friday. It's nothing hard core - probably 3-4k of flattish walk around the village. It's designed to be accessible to all although our walks tend to push the top of the accessibility options, not usually wheelchair accessible but making provision for the 86yr old, the blind guy and the bloke with parkinsons. Anyway. I had my walk mapped out and then panicked about it and decided on Friday morning to route plan an alternative. It needed pre-walking so DH. DS and I set off before realising that we weren't going to have time to get round it and get back. I left DH and DS and ran it. Well I ran most of it. In hiking boots and in the wrong bra. Given it was a 25min run-walk it was remarkably hard work. Better get back to proper training tomorrow methinks!

Don't be too hard on yourself. Running in hiking boots and no sports bra is going to be far more difficult than proper running gear!

I'm planning to start my swim training for sport relief today. Going to do 16 lengths today which is about 1/4 mile.

5 you sound so positive and happy about the running - that's how I feel. You're not far off the 5k now yay!

Go ouch re hiking boots and wrong bra

Think I'm gonna enter the local 10k race for life. Bit scarey though. Can do about 7k now but 10? Will I manage it go? How much training will I need? Have so little time what's the minimum I can do?

Hiya tidy

If you're running 7k at the moment which is what, 40mins? Then you could just add 5 or 10 mins to one just one run each week and then in a month you should be doing 10k easily. but i'm not too sure why you're asking me, i'm mostly making stuff up as I go along!
When is the race for life?

Good luck with the swim 5

Hey bugrit! You still here?

Did 26 lengths. Could have done the full 32 but the pool closed! I'm now thinking perhaps 1 mile is doable on my own

Hi :)

Keep it up 5, you're almost there!

go I am in awe that you ran all that way like that but even cooler is that you were in a hurry so you just ran - isn't that fab? :)

7k is pretty damn impressive tidy. I'm sure as a one off 10k would be very achievable. It's all mental innit? Go for it!

I've had a few days off again, plagued by leg pain. I don't seem to be coping well with the longer runs. Endomondo says I've run over 120k since
November but I still haven't started week 9. Not sure what to do about it tbh apart from take a break when it's bad and keep persevering. A bit down at heart I guess but Sport Relief next week should cheer me up :)

Here's something to make you guys smile. For mothers' day I got a new base layer. I whipped off my pajama top to try it on and DS piped up: "Goodness me, look at the size of your body, mum! "

DH was almost crying with laughter I was just crying

bugrit that's fabulous! Love the technical gear for mother's day too! I'm sorry your leg is still hurting. Is it worth getting to see a physio or a sports massage type person incase there's something structural underlying it which could be fixed by exercises or manipulation. It must be really frustrating for you though.

5 nice swim! You've inspired me. I'll try and get to the pool this week - a friend is trying to sign us up for a quadrathlon later this summer. The run I'm quite confident about now, the paddle will be a fiddle but the swim (open water week) and the cycle are a bit intimidating. My bike has had a flat tyre for 5 years...

Oh, and my mothers' day present? 2 full nights sleep! DS doesn't need feeding overnight (he wouldn't be unreasonable to, he's >20lb and still ebf but tends to snack and nap which is bad form in my book) so I've decamped to the spare room leaving DH to soothe DS back to sleep. It seems to be working. I'm loving the sleep!

bugrit also loving the technical gear for mother's day. I agree with go, if it's still troublesome I would head for a GP or physio to have it checked out. Did anyone get a check up before they started c25k? I didn't, mostly because I've convinced myself 36 is still young and that advice is aimed at "old people". Perhaps I should send myself to the doctor just in case.

go fantastic mother's day present. A good night of sleep really makes life look different doesn't it? How I remember those early days...

kick big unmumsnetty hugs. How are you feeling now? Any results or scans done yet?

tidy yes, I am, seriously really upbeat about it. I was really really on the couch before I started this program. I walked to school, and occasionally got my bicycle out but regular exercise is never something I've managed to maintain.

Last night I found myself trying to convince DP we should do a triathlon. It's a local one in May, 400m of swimming, 20k of cycling then a 5k run at the end. It was only the realisation of it being in a couple of months and the fact I've never ridden 20k that stopped me from signing us both up. DP being a bloke seemed to think it would be easy to do without ANY training at all

Love it. Thanks for all the support

Just got back from second Zumba class. I RAN there and back!
it's not very far though

Back moving and grooving. It was a beautiful evening so went out before collecting dd from nursery.

Met one nextdoor neighbour whilst on my warm up so stopped for just long enough that the massively steep bank which usually falls in my warm up became part of my run (that'll teach me to stop and gossip!)then I met our other next door neighbour with his dogs just at the bottom of the next steep hill...he promised to walk slowly so he wouldn't over take me.

The hill was steep enough that I was running 30 paces and walking 10. Suspect I was walking quicker than I was running.

It was fabulous to be out though. Did about 5.5k. At one point my phone told me I was running a km in 3 minutes. I think it was lying. Average pace 7.04 so a bit slower than normal but there was over 100m height gained, most of it in the second km.

Anybody else making the most of the weather?

I've had a couple of runs with a friend outside but she's not run as much as me so we've been doing 2*10 mins. Tonight I went to gym and decided to go for it and pick up in week 8! It was a struggle weirdly more so in the middle. Towards the end I was very pleased to have finished.

Stats fans: 4.4mph for 28 mins is 2.08 miles or 3.3k

Total distance travelled 4.384km including warm up and cool down.

Nice one 5! How did it feel? Are you enjoying running with your friend?Just wondered if any of you had seenthis: it relates to bugrit's query from the other week about doing races...

Actually it was that article go that caused me to decide to push it for an extra three mins more than planned. My logic was that in this article Eddie Izzard claims he only started training for the 53 marathons 5 weeks beforehand.

So after 10 weeks and 80km I ought to be able to add three mins onto a 25 min run. Logic see?

The actual running itself was a slog from the beginning to the end, mostly I think because DC3 got me up at 5.30am that day and I'd done a full day of work sitting on my arse. It got easier in the middle, but I think I'm turning into a road runner as the treadmill really wasn't doing it for me last night.

I'm liking actual running with a person, only downside is she's not run as much as me (I'm actually FITTER than someone else - woo hoo!!) so I'm concerned about how she'd handle the 25+ min runs my schedule is calling for. She's away for a week or so now, so I'm planning to continue the 28 mins then decide with her when she's back how we run from here.

I get you 5. My neighbour said the other day that she quite liked the idea of c25k. If I was starting now i'd jump at the chance to do it with her but I don't want to start again. If I did, though, it would give me a running partner.

My plan for tomorrow pm is to run all the way around our hill. It's all on trail. I ran part of it yesterday but will start earlier and try and get all the way round. I can't work work out the distance on map my run in advance because the paths don't show on the maps. I could get my OS map and a bit of string or I could just run it and be pleasantly surprised at the end. Think I might do the latter. Then paddling on Saturday, run on Sunday... It should be a good weekend!

mapmyrun.com has a run planner. I spent quite a nice hour planning new flat routes around my local neighbourhood which avoided main roads and took in nice areas with pleasant looking houses

Evening! I've just had a totally awesome run. 6.8k and it was bloody steep on places. Found primroses and blue bells in the woods. Went up the hill which nearly broke me on Wednesday and managed to run almost all of it today. Second hill I just ran up. Third one was a killer and I kept finding my legs slowing to a walk. there were a few others too but overall it felt really good. On the flatter bits I was running fast enough that I was creating a breeze to keep myself cool.

I really felt like a proper runner ad I slipped over tree roots and round boulders.

Struggling a bit with mapmyrun.com though. It recorded today's run as a workout rather than a route so whilst I have seen a map of it, I can't find it and I can't find the elevation for it but it has given me a rather fabulous graph of my pace - which appears to hit zero a few times

Paddling tomorrow and then a run on Sunday and I should make this week a 10 mile run week.

Wow go that sounds amazing.

My run today didn't go well, I always find road running to be more difficult but I found myself stopping. Aimed to do 28 mins, and probably ran about 80%. First bit was OK but once I'd stopped once I found I wanted to stop again. Total distance today was 4.51km.

Anyone doing a SportRelief mile?

Morning people!

You two have been busy - what progress :)

My leg still isn't right. I've run once in the last 8 days. Today I run 3 miles for Sport Relief. Next week I see the GP about my sad limbs.

For now, I've popped my ibuprofen, packed my inhaler and I'm off to run a race. To run a bloody race!

Well done bugrit!

I'm at a children's party which clashed with our local sport relief running mile. Let us know how you get on!

It was good thanks :) and I've beaten my sponsorship target too so I'm delighted!

Now I am literally hobbling :(

How are you feeling now bugrit?

I did a 25 min run last night on treadmill at the gym.

Evening! Well done bugrit! And well done 5.

I've not been out since Friday. I've lost my running bras. Canna find them anywhere and I'm gutted.

In other news, I put on my wonderful cropped fat face trousers today. I know ff is generous in its sizing and that these are a 12 but they are about 2" to big round the waist. I've spent 2 of the last 3 summers in mat clothes but I'm sure they fitted in the summer in between. I might just have to go shopping! I also have spare space in my upside shorts. Bought from the factory shop they almost fitted 2 years ago and now they're quite roomy.

I'll go away now and take my new slimmer body with me but not before i've thanked you guys for your assistance in rediscovering my waist. Now if you can just find my shock absorber bra I'd be over the moon...