c25k - newbie runners

junodog1

Week 7 Day 2 done.
I'm nearly done with the program. But I'll have lots of room for speed improvement as I have no speed to talk of. But who would have believed a few weeks ago that now I can run for over 25 minutes, on rolling hills.

Rosemary7391

junodog1 wrote: »

Week 7 is dragging It's raining daily here and I don't have an indoor alternative. Fortunately I'm not in Texas so I'll be patient. I'm not dedicated enough to run in the rain yet nor do I have the gear to keep my phone dry.

I quite like running in light rain - it helps to keep me cool and I'm straight in the shower afterwards anyway! Haven't tried a heavy downpour yet though. I probably should get something to keep my phone dry, living in Glasgow and all I will have to run in the rain ...

I did W5D2 this morning Looking forward to 20 minutes on Friday or Saturday!

rianneonamission

I am back from a break and only got one run in because of the weather. However, on the day I did go this was one of my views...

charmedraquel

I've just completed wk 5 day 3 but I stopped at 18 minutes....I have been running on treadmill and stopped at 2 miles thinking I'd got there before the 20 minutes but forgot all about the 5 minute warm up so I'm thinking should I repeat that day or just move on to week 6!? Never really done any running before I started this so don't want to cheat!!

krazy1sbk

krazy1sbk wrote: »

I'm on week 7 now but I'm a bit stalled as I hurt my knee on Thursday. Not sure what I did but my summer job keeps me above 10k steps a day, so I nought jyst be overdoing it in general... resting up a bit and I'm going to start back as soon as it stops hurting to be at my job all day... still hate running! But I'm stubborn, so I'll finish the app.

I didn't run again until after my vacation in August since I didn't want to hurt myself again before my trip! I ran last week for 20 minutes just to see if I still could. I did it! BUT my knee started hurting about 10-15 minutes in. It didn't hurt the next day so I ran on Saturday and ended up only running a mile (~10 minutes) because I was not well-rested. I'm going to try again later this week and see how 20 minutes goes... It might be the shoes? I have great running shoes but they are very old. Since I was not running before, I never replaced my shoes until they were completely ruined...

bellyfattoflat

Wondering if anyone is still reading this bread. If you are - I did it! We ran our 5k yesterday and while I was no speed demon - I came in 17th out of 51 in my age group:) It was a lot of fun and I will definitely be signing up for another one!