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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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tryingtocookacurry · 06/07/2009 07:24

I did week 5 run 1 this morning and can't believe that 5 minutes now feels easier than last week. Not looking forward to run3 this week which is a full 20 min run. Really don't think it will happen for me.

How did everybody else get on with this one?

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 06/07/2009 09:38

I thought that I could never manage 20 minutes running, but somehow I did

Am about to go and do a 30 min run now

InTheZenGarden · 06/07/2009 11:04

Just done w1r1

I was puce by the end, which I was about, but I did get to the very end

Def need new trainers - the ones I have are the ones I had pre-DD and I think my feet have got bigger since then!

Does anyone have any recommendations of where to go/not go for trainers? I feel I need advice on what to buy, so I am a bit dubious about going to somewhere like Decathlon, which we have near us (I'm in Nottingham) as it always feels like a warehouse shop. Think we have a JJB sports or something similar at a retail park nearby, and there's all the "usual" city centre places of course. Any suggestions?

Am very at those of you doing 20 minute runs, I really hope I can do it in a few weeks. Can't believe I was huffing and puffing at a total of 8 minutes running, with 90 second breaks between each minute run

InTheZenGarden · 06/07/2009 12:00

Oh, and if anyone can help here would be very grateful

LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 06/07/2009 12:16

Did my run and am pleased to announce my minutes per mile was under 11

(it was 10.59 min/mile but as that was for 30 min and I was away at the weekend in Germany mainly drinking beer I am very pleased).

Well done Zen on your first run. You'll be doing 20 min in no time .

I have some Nike trainers which I actually got from ebay a couple of years ago. There is a shop people have recommended on here where they watch you running and recommend trainers based on that - maybe Just Running? Will look properly back in the thread some time.

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 06/07/2009 12:19

hello all, can I join you?

I have been running for 2 weeks now, every other night (where circumstances allow)
I am really enjoying it. I have loads of weight to loose and need to get fit.

I have a 2 mile route that I am doing at the moment and it is taking about 25 minutes- I have my ipod on and I started running for a song walking for a song and so on, but towards the end of last week I realised I could runn for 2 songs then walk for 1 and so on.

Once I can run all the way there I am going to increase the distance, I believe I need to be going out for at least 25 minutes for it to be doing me any good (weight or fitness wise)

if anyone has some fab tips I would love to hear them.

Thanks

InTheZenGarden · 06/07/2009 14:28

Thanks Lovely Rita, it is Up and Running, just had a look through the thread ... sorry, should have done that in the first place.
Well, they have one in nottingham, so I guess I'd better get myself in there.... bit at the potential cost, but DH is in a "spend what you need if it'll get you fit" mood atm, so may as well go for it now!!

JackBauer · 06/07/2009 14:29

Hi all, welcome greyskull, loving the name btw, watched HF last night actually...

Zen, Up and Running is where I went, what you need is somewhere with either a RAM (running Analysis MAchine) or a Gait Analysis Machine, which is a camera on the back of a treadmill (pointed at your feet only....)
'Tis expensive but I found it well worth it as I always got really bad shin splints and now don't get them at all as they found I was running with my ankles tilted and sold me trainers that corrected that.

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 06/07/2009 14:46

JB - I went to somewhere that did that, it was great, she had me jog on the treadmill and never told me the price of the trainers. in the end the ones I chose and that we agreed on were some of the cheapest ones I tried

Lovely Rita there is a great shop in Cambridge or Pterborough if they are closer for you.

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 06/07/2009 14:47

here

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!!!

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...)

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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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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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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

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????

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 · 07/07/2009 08:59

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

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

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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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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.

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.

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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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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.

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?