January couch to 5k - who's with me?

[Santageekmum]

I am massively overweight and have never run before but am planning on starting the nhs couch to 5k plan in January (first Thursday in fact).

Who would like to don their trainers and join me?

Also if anyone has a good sports bra to recommend, I'm bf and a 40dd at the moment and need a new one for running.

I love my running tracks, but they probably aren't to everyone's taste ;P.

Metallica, System of a Down, Disturbed, KoRn, Lamb of God and Tarot.

Ah, turningitaround, that sounds beautiful!

Watch out, spoilers below for week 2 as requested by Nosey
It's 90s running, 2m walking, so 30s more running and 30s more walking. Take it slow at the start, you'll get through it.

I'm going to ask DH to choose the winning thread title at 6.30 so keep your eyes open for my next post!

I love your running tracks MetalSian. I've been on the cross trainer with Rob Zombie, Disturbed and Rammstein which make me move more. I never thought of Korn. Durh. I'm off to upload all my CDs onto ITunes now. Cheers .

OneHandWavingFree has won! A big bunch of imaginary heading your way!

New thread is here - please mark your places by putting down the last run you completed!

kinkydorito but the intentions there!! You'll be fine once you get going.

*sciencegeekmum that doesnt sound too bad. I couldnt find it on my ipod, it seems to have disappeared, though its more likely that I have deleted it!! Usually get dp to do all the techie stuff much to his amusement! Dont know how many times he has shown me how to do it, i still get my knickers in a twist!

Took my phone with me today so I could use runkeeper. I checked it at the end and it amazed me how far i had run, as I just run in a loop really-1.75miles. Doesnt sound alot but I really didnt think the loop was as long as that! Also found todays run quite hardgoing -thought my chest was going to explode. Ready for week two though, once I get dp to download it for me!

Right off to get the xmas tree down now. Kids are back to school on Tuesday and if it doesnt comedown now it will never come down!

Interested in those using the c25k app, I've got the podcast so stuck with their choice of music. Its fine but be nice to chose my own music.

I have broken the rules today and run two days in a row. Was so unhappy after yesterday I wanted to give week 2 a go and try to feel more positive about the whole things and it was much easier than yesterday. So I har managed to next step and am looking forward to my next run, yay!!

Some people are just rude woodlands!

Could someone post the title of the new thread so I can get to it??? Link don't work on iPhone!

W1r2 done. Found it harder than run 1! Ow. Ow ow , don't think I will be ready for w2 anytime soon.

Couch to 5K: A healthier year is underway

How many calories we all aiming for per day?

Thanks for all your kind words regarding my niece. She is still very sick but the Doctors have said she has turned a corner and things are definitely looking more positive than they were at the beginning of the weekend.

I'm in. I'm 12 stone and before xmas was doing treadmill walking/running every week. Had built up to 5k running myself without plan/app etc, but back at square 1 after christmas lol. Went to gym and did a walking/running 5k today in a super-slow time of 50 minutes.

My previous best time when I managed to run the whole distance was 38 mins. So would like to start building up to doing it in a decent time - I felt I was going flat out at 38 minutes, can't imagine going faster! But getting under 30 minutes ultimately would be a great goal to aim for.

jojo we've moved to a new thread here, come and join us there :)

Have just completed run3 week 4 , sweaty !!!

Bishboschone well done! We have a new thread now, please join us there, the link is in the posts above but in case it doesn't work, it's called Couch to 5K: a healthier year is underway! See you there soon!