C25K question

Collinsky

Two friends and I started C25K last week... we made a bit of a miscalculation, and instead of doing the Week 1 pattern (jog 60, walk 90) we reversed it without realizing, and have been doing 90 seconds jogging, 60 seconds walking. What should we do for Week 2? We absolutely do not need 2 minutes of walk in between the 90 seconds of jogging, that would be a step backwards fro us. I'd rather skip ahead to week 3, and do that two weeks in a row, or do our 90/60 for another week or so.

What would you do in this case? Just curious!

photorific

I'd skip ahead to week 3...

aejbx4x7s

I would skip to week 3. I recently completed the program and skipped around. I was in decent shape, I just wasn't a runner per se, so it was pretty easy to skip some weeks. I just went with what felt most comfortable for me.

kbcountry65

The C25K program is is a guideline for building up slowly from inactivity. In your situation it sounds like you didn't need the first step and went straight to step two. Just keeping climbing the ladder.

Black_Swan

Id skip too, just move on:)!

M_lifts

skip to week 3, remember its a rough guide to get you started- you dont have to follow it to the letter. You can skips weeks and move on and if you find you are struggling then you can move a week back. Entirely up to you and how you feel. I started running from week 6 onwards as the walking was holding me back. Id stop and walk if i got too tired. Go for it!

I didnt get to week 9 as i could run for 30 mins straight by week 7 and got my 5k!

elcafefuerte

The program is to help people move from the couch to a 5K, so if you feel good enough having done week 2 (even if you thought it was week 1) move right on to week 3 if you can handle it. I'm in the other boat where I'm repeating week 1 because I'm really not up to par with running/jogging yet. I'm not concerned with the time it will take, I just want to the goal of a 5k in the end.

I have a great app I downloaded that takes care of telling me what and when to do it - it's been really helpful.

Pangea250

C25K isn't meant to be written in stone, so you should feel free to change it up as you feel necessary. There may be weeks you'll breeze through and others you'll need to repeat. Since you have 3 of you doing it together, you should be prepared either wait on a week for one of you to catch up or be comfortable doing it "together" but all on different weeks.

Since you unintentionally modified week 1 as you did, try a day of week 3 and see how it goes. If it's too hard, do another of your modified week 1.

Have fun!

Collinsky

Thanks for the feedback, guys!!

I think I'd like to try out Week 3, but I put it to the other two moms to see what they want to do. We may be being joined by another mom who has not been running at all, and if so we'll almost certainly stick with what we did last week just to give her a chance to catch up a little.

We'll take it as a guideline, so if we need to switch things up we will. We're definitely prepared to pace ourselves to each other as needed. One of my friends has been running already for a while, so I think she's probably just enjoying the company and providing moral support more than increasing her own fitness at this point. We're flexible, so we'll figure it out as we go along!

WowieGarcia

Not telling you what you should do because I have no clue. But if you have an iPhone or iPod, there is a free app you can download called 5kRunner. I has voice prompts that tell you when to walk or when to run. Very good app for the C25K runners.