C25K

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  • acarmon55
    acarmon55 Posts: 135 Member
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    I did C25K two years ago and completed it and have never ran before. I felt so much better after I ran. Ended up with some medical issues and with weather and other excuses I stopped running. In December 2014, my husband bought me a treadmill. Now I have no excuses and restarted C25k. I have had trouble doing the program consistently on the treadmill, but have re-did days til I was able to complete them. I am now on Week 7 and so proud of my progress. Even though I only get to run once a week at times, the program is my motivator on how well I am doing. I actually downloaded C210K from ZenLabs just so I could continue toward a goal. I am not one that likes to run in public so I do not do races and don't have the desire to. This app alone is motivation enough for me to keep trying and keep running.
  • lesaw01
    lesaw01 Posts: 207 Member
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    I am also working on C25K, I am on week 7, yesterday I ran/jogged 20 minutes for day 1. I am signing up for a 5K race over the Memorial Day weekend so I plan to finish up C25K before then. I started the program several times but never got very far on it. When I started I couldn't even do the 1 minute run for the 1st day. So week 1 took me several weeks to accomplish. If I couldn't do the runs I would just keep repeating that week/day until I made it through. I am 54 years old and when I started C25K I weighed around 220 pounds so it was a challenge and I am so proud of myself for sticking with it and getting this far.
  • loratliff
    loratliff Posts: 283 Member
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    Great advice, jchite! I go into every race with a time goal AND a non-time related goal; that helps take some of the pressure off.
  • peachyfuzzle
    peachyfuzzle Posts: 1,122 Member
    edited April 2015
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    I'm going to be getting back on c25k next week, but I've been following the same philosophy since getting back into the gym April 1st. I have been doing 6sets of jogging with a 90 second walking break in between and a five minute warmup/cooldown walk 4x/week.

    This is what I've been doing:

    Week 1: 2:00min jog/90 sec walk
    Week 2: 2:30min jog/90 sec walk
    Week 3: 3:00min jog/90 sec walk
    Week 3.5: 4:00min jog/90 sec walk
    Week 4: 5 min jog/90 sec walk

    I have only failed two jog sets, and they both came on the day I went up to 2:30min jogs. As it stands, in just a few short weeks, I'm having no issues whatsoever completing my jogging sets, and could probably go for 3-4 more if I truly wanted. I have increased my jogging speed from 5.2 to 5.5mph, and can complete a 5k in about 35 minutes (including the warm up walk), or so.

    Next week, I am going to try to jump into week six of this program: http://www.c25k.com/c25k_treadmill.html. I feel as though I shouldn't have much of a problem doing so, especially considering I have two more days of my week 4 left, which actually means I will have to cut my overall jogging time down in order to jog for longer periods of time before breaks.

    I've been pretty amazed at how quickly I have gained endurance.
  • verdemujer
    verdemujer Posts: 1,397 Member
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    There is even a group at MFP for C25K:
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/30-couch-to-5k-running-program-c25k

    Lots of advice about running, dealing with injuries, threads for the different levels.

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