Yikes! Broken toe sounds painful...!

Get better! And enjoy the Color Hobble on Sunday.

So, F2f... we gave you a few days, but since you haven't said anything: How did the Sunday Color Run go?

Hi and welcome! We are always happy to see new runners join here.

Hi

Sorry not be in touch.

The color run was great fun. Could only run some of it as it was too crowded but definitely do it again next year and take the kids.

The best bit was 2 brides in full dress who were following us and they got totally covered. The worst bit was losing my son through a color station and taking 10 mins to find him. He has high functioning autism so was not sure how he would coped if he lost me but I was the one panicking.

My toe/foot is still really sore so not being doing any running at the moment which is annoying as Spartan Race in 6 weeks.

Amerielle - That is actually rather motivating for me. I have done week 1 several times, and up thru week 4, but then got busy with work.

I tried to start again earlier this week, but we ended up working two 16 hour days in a row and it was rather challenging to find time to run. However, two days ago, I found 35 minutes of time in the afternoon to run. I didn't do the ZR5KT but ran a minute, walked a minute, then ended up running like 8 at full speed when the helicopter flew overhead and I was not back. I made it before they cooled down.

Today, I did W1D1 on an awesome forest trail all by myself. I was extremely happy. Looking forward the day after tomorrow to run again!

(I speak in time frames for I never actually know the day of the week. We work a 12 on 2 off schedule.)

Now if only I can work harder to make the calories in match calories out.

I know that I've seen it mentioned on here, but how did you guys handle the huge transition from week 2 to week 3?
I plan on re-starting the 5k app in the next few weeks, but I am really not optimistic about the huge leap in running time between those two weeks in the app. Going from 30 seconds of running to 5 minutes seems a little severe. Severe enough that I'm worried it's going to put me off of the app.

Thank you, Amerielle.
That's kind of what I was thinking. I may just repeat that week a few times to get better at it.

Something I read on the forums once & has stuck w/me is to just try it. You won't know until you actually try it if you will need to repeat or not. I keep this in mind every week & so far I have surprised myself. I'm doing week 6 day 2 tomorrow. When the week 3 leap happened I did 2min run 1min walk & then remembered what I read on the forum & just tried it non-stop & I did it. You will surprise yourself & remember if you're out of breath, can't talk, feel like dying then slow it down. Speed will come later. You will be amazed @ how far you could run. This app is wonderful.

I just finished Week 2, Day 1 after taking a few days because I was too busy with work. The running part was fine. I could easily handle 30 seconds, however those heel lifts made me wince. Those are not cool.

They may or may not be cool.... They're Super Cool if you take into consideration that they'll save you from achilles issues, shin splints and PF!

I know they are good for me and I did all of them. Doesn't mean I have to like them. lol.

Ha! Well, you're a better person than me.
I learned the hard way how cool they are.

I know they are good for me and I did all of them. Doesn't mean I have to like them. lol.

plus there is the embarrassment factor of doing them when outside. There always seems to be more people around when I do them.

lol right! When I had to do them I was in the park and there were people everywhere.... then there was the skipping. hahah