How are you getting on with C25K?
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Week 7 day 1 completed this morning, 25 minutes in a row, no cheating, and today it was 9 (NINE!!!!!!!) minutes I was happily telling myself was ALL that was left and I could do it. Still finding this amazing.
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@eleanorhawkins it is indeed amazing what we can accomplish. I still feel amazed after my runs, it feels like it can't be me who is doing this.1
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I completed week 4 day 2 today. I run super slow (15 minute mile) and I've been trying to push myself a bit on the shorter jogs up to 4.5mph (13:19 minute mile). It's going pretty well. So today the 3 minute jogs were at 4.5mph and the 5 minute jogs were slower at 4.0. The five minutes feels a lot easier compared to the three, but it's still doable.2
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@eponine1984 - I am slow too but I don't mind. I just feel amazed by the distances/time I can cover. And I think getting faster comes later on - heck, before June this year I didn't jog/run AT ALL and thought that I can't do it.2
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Tiikerinraidat wrote: »@eponine1984 - I am slow too but I don't mind. I just feel amazed by the distances/time I can cover. And I think getting faster comes later on - heck, before June this year I didn't jog/run AT ALL and thought that I can't do it.
Agree completely. All my jogging is done at 6 km/h (around 4 mph) and I couldn't care less. Beside the fact that I'm very short and my little legs would probably fall off if I tried to make them go much faster, the important thing is I'm doing it!
Oh and on the subject of doing it, completed week 7 this morning. The first 10 minutes were tough and the last 10 minutes were tough, the 5 in the middle not too bad
My mind is still boggling at the fact that I'm running for 25 minutes in a row and it isn't just a fluke. Me!4 -
I had a bit of a break from running since I finished my fundraising event in August, have been focusing on my strength training instead, feel much better for it, but want to start incorporating a couple of runs back into my weekly routine, the weather was absolutely rubbish last week so didn't bother apart from 15 mins on a treadmill, which I didn't enjoy at all (used to road running).
So I figured the easiest way to do this is to do it on my lunch break at work, there are some nice flat routes around the marina about 5 mins away from where my office is located and we have great shower facilities. I think it will counter me not being able to motivate myself outside on the colder darker evenings now that the Autumn is drawing in.
I did about 3km today, stopped to walk twice but average around 8 mins per km which isn't too bad including a 5 min warm up walk.1 -
I completed W5D2 yesterday - running for 8 minutes at a time! My mind was very ready to give up long before my body was, but I kept on going. The last minute or so was very tough, but I think again it was my mind trying to convince me I couldn't reach that goal. I'm nervous about my next run - 20 minutes straight! Is it as bad as I'm thinking it might be?0
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eponine1984 wrote: »I completed W5D2 yesterday - running for 8 minutes at a time! My mind was very ready to give up long before my body was, but I kept on going. The last minute or so was very tough, but I think again it was my mind trying to convince me I couldn't reach that goal. I'm nervous about my next run - 20 minutes straight! Is it as bad as I'm thinking it might be?
It's been said a lot in this thread already that the mind is usually the only thing holding you back, if you can run 8 mins twice, you can run it twice with no break
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eponine1984 wrote: »I completed W5D2 yesterday - running for 8 minutes at a time! My mind was very ready to give up long before my body was, but I kept on going. The last minute or so was very tough, but I think again it was my mind trying to convince me I couldn't reach that goal. I'm nervous about my next run - 20 minutes straight! Is it as bad as I'm thinking it might be?
No it isn't..... your brain will probably scream its head off but as long as you can scream louder telling it to shut up you'll get there. Trust the programme and trust your body, whether or not your mind is willing to admit it you are ready to do it.
Oh and the feeling of triumph when you finish those 20 minutes is out of this world, promise!
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Week 8 is done. 28 minutes seems an awfully long time when you're running it..... day 1 I had to give myself a 2 minute break half way through, the other two days I managed to bully my brain into running the whole thing without stopping. Today was harder and proved that temperature makes a big difference for me: I ran in new, mid-calf length workout leggings that I bought myself and was chuffed to find fit as opposed to short shorts, won't be doing that again for a few more weeks!
While running this morning I was toying with ideas of what to do next after I finish the programme next week. Still amazed I'm almost done, when I think that at the end of January when I first tried to start it it almost crippled me and I had to put myself through a self-designed programme to prepare myself before even starting it!
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That's it, I've finished. Week 9 went smoothly enough, for some reason I decided to do day one on Sunday after a late night cinema outing and popcorn binge and it was excrutiatingly hard, I had to take three 1 minute breaks but did manage to run the 30 minutes altogether. Then Tuesday and today I did the half hour without stopping, I found the first 15 are the hardest and my brain is constantly calculating and the voice in my head needs to shut up. Today's run went something like this:
"3 minutes, that's 1 tenth done.....5 minutes, ok only have to do that 5 more times and I'll be done.... 8 minutes, well I guess if I'm really struggling I could break it into 3 ten minute runs with a minute walk in between..... 10 minutes, no come on you can do this, at least get to half way through then walk for a minute if you really need to...... 13 minutes, wow I'm almost half way there, I'm a runner! (even if I'm sweating so much it looks like someone chucked a bucket of water over my head)...... 15 minutes, you could take a quick break now, no hang on I've already managed half without stopping, nothing hurts or anything I can keep going..... 20 minutes, too late to stop now, it would make for uneven lengthed intervals and that wouldn't do, you'll just have to keep going..... 25 minutes, wow this half hour is lasting forever, come on almost done...... 27 minutes, God how long can 5 minutes take to pass???? One more song..... 28 minutes, you've been running for this long, surely 120 measly seconds isn't going to kill you.... 30 minutes OMG I really am a runner!"
Although I may change I have pretty much decided for now to try and run for 30 minutes every other day for a couple of weeks and then go on to the 10k programme. One thing I would like to work on, and I believe the best way to do it is by increasing distance, is my time.... I may be a runner but I'm a bloody slow one thanks to my very short legs, to actually run 5k would take me 50 minutes at the moment. If not, well heck I'm still doing something on a regular basis I would never have believed I was capable of doing.
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I had a few bad runs the past week - W5D3 was a challenge and I needed to take two 1-minute walking breaks. It was more mental than anything else. (I had a pipe burst in my house last week and everything is damaged. All 3 levels of my townhouse are torn apart by the water remediation team - at least there won't be mold! - but we have to coordinate our insurance with the HOA to get everything put back together). So my brain wasn't really in the game as far as running went, but I kept trying to power through. W6D1 was a little better, but it didn't feel as good as previous runs. W6D2 was finally a good run. I think I've been trying to go too fast and I finally acknowledged that it's okay to slow down. Once my husband gets home from work, I'll head to the gym for W6D3 - and I'll take it slow and steady.1
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I completed w6d3! I ran without stopping at 4.2 miles per hour. 4.5 is much too fast for me right now. There was a guy two treadmills over that was running at 8.4. I have to say, good for him. That's not a goal of mine. I'm super satisfied with myself and my run tonight.3
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W8D1 done! I dropped down to 4.0 from 4.2 and it's still really challenging but I'm wishing for death less.
@eleanorhawkins I keep up the same kind of mental commentary.2 -
How is everyone getting on with their running, I am on a couple of weeks ban as done something to my back, so it's just walking and yoga for me at the moment, I need to vicariously live through others.0
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I completed the program (in that I got to 30 minutes running, not that that's ANYWHERE near 5k due to my very short legs and turtle pace) a few weeks ago. Looked at the bridge to 10k program but decided jumping straight from 30 minutes to 40 minutes in intervals was too much of an increase to do straight away, so I'm currently doing my own little bridge between the two. This week I'm running 9, 8, 9 and 8 minutes with 1 minute walks in between, next I'll do 4 x 9 minutes and so on until I get to the 4 x 10 minutes. I'd rather increase slowly and avoid overdoing it, especially as running makes me HUNGRY and I'm still on a deficit.
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I completed c25k a few weeks ago, but given that I run 15 minute miles, I wasn't close to a 5k. I started the bridge to 10K and then I majorly derailed. Life. Sigh. But I had a goal for myself of running a 5k in October and even though I didn't do an official race, I ran one on the treadmill yesterday. My sister ran virtually with me (she gave me a one mile head start and still finished before me) and kept up the encouraging text messages while I ran. I did it!
I actually ran without stopping for 3.1 miles. It took me 46:26, but I did it! And now I find myself signed up for a turkey trot with my husband and some of his family on thanksgiving day!2 -
Currently on week 3 day 3, I've been doing every day instead of taking breaks, except on weekends. When I start to struggle I'll tone it down a bit. Glad to be new in this group.2
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I am back to it again, not done a lot of running the last couple of months as I was focusing on my strength training and then I had a sore back after foot landing funny on a hike, so I am starting on Week 4 again to ease back in slowly.
Day 1 went fairly successfully, although it was hard to pace myself slower than normal.1 -
Feeling pretty terrible. I just attempted day one of week four. I couldn't do it. I felt so bad quiting out earlier. It's the middle of a Saturday and I just ending up walking home.0
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chickennugger13 wrote: »Feeling pretty terrible. I just attempted day one of week four. I couldn't do it. I felt so bad quiting out earlier. It's the middle of a Saturday and I just ending up walking home.
Don't feel bad, just remember even if you didn't finish you still did more than the ones that never got off their azzes! We all have bad runs sometimes, just tell yourself tomorrow will be better and let it go. There's nothing wrong with repeating days or weeks in the programme if and when you need to, I repeated at least three weeks and still finished it successfully eventually, just took me a little longer than some :-D
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I went back to week 3 to try that run this morning as week 4 seems to need a bit more fitness. I don't understand what is wrong with me. I couldn't catch my breath after each run. It feels like it's getting harder0
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chickennugger13 wrote: »I went back to week 3 to try that run this morning as week 4 seems to need a bit more fitness. I don't understand what is wrong with me. I couldn't catch my breath after each run. It feels like it's getting harder
Well,
Lets look at it this week to week
Week 1 has you running 8 minutes per session
2... 10 MPS
3... 9 MPS
4... 16 MPS
5... 15/16/20
6.... 18/20/25
So you're essentially doubling your run volume from week 3-4. Which is a huge jump.... unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of workaround.
You could try a 3.5 week with 12 MPS
3m/90s X 4 rounds, but then you'd have to self time. instead of using the app.
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chickennugger13 wrote: »I went back to week 3 to try that run this morning as week 4 seems to need a bit more fitness. I don't understand what is wrong with me. I couldn't catch my breath after each run. It feels like it's getting harder
You are perhaps trying to go too fast too?0 -
Was a little delayed in doing my Week 4 Day 3 run, as I was away in the UK, did it last night and got my third best PR for 1 mile, so pretty pleased with that
Do need to slow down a bit though as I can see this causing me issues if I try and keep up the speed when I get into Week 6 again. 0 -
I did week 5, day 3 today. I was pretty nervous about this one. I slowed my pace too much, I think, but I did complete and ran (slowly) the whole time.1
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Since I last posted I haven't run at all. I seem to have lost the will0
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chickennugger13 wrote: »Since I last posted I haven't run at all. I seem to have lost the will
The hardest part is getting yourself back out the door, once you've done that it's easy.0 -
chickennugger13 wrote: »Since I last posted I haven't run at all. I seem to have lost the will
I vote you don't put too much pressure on yourself and just go out for fun. Maybe go for a walk but wear your running stuff just in case you fancy a little jog while you're there.
About a month ago I ran 10 miles without too many problems (I walked for bits but not that much). Today however, I could barely cover 1 mile before stopping to walk. It's annoying, and I know it's all in my mind, but actually I don't really care - I was out enjoying the fresh air and I was doing what I could to get fitter. As long as I don't stop going out it'll eventually pay off.1 -
I did W7D1 today. I was really nervous about getting to this point, but it wasn't terrible. My pace is not great, but I'm getting through it. I did stop for a bit to snap a picture.
I've been running on an easy-moderate hiking trail that is mostly uphill during the first half of the run. Starting this week, I plan to do one run a week on the concrete sidewalk around my neighborhood. I signed up for a 5k on New Year's (12:10a) that is on a mostly flat concrete trail, so figure I should try to get used to running on concrete.3
