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    Bite me, Couch to 5K - Week 3!

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    • Posts: 126 Member
      LOL! How do people even find this old post of mine? Well, I've long since finished C25K and have run four 5Ks since them. I can't recommend this program enough.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      Just finished the couch to 5k program myself. Never did I imagine thinking to myself "only a mile left to run"
    • Posts: 120 Member
      desweds wrote: »
      LOL! How do people even find this old post of mine? Well, I've long since finished C25K and have run four 5Ks since them. I can't recommend this program enough.
      Well i loved your post and i am sure that everyone that has read it did as well. Glad to see that you've progressed so much :smiley:

    • Posts: 454 Member
      Proud of you!
    • Posts: 60 Member
      Thanks! I needed this this morning! I have 6 days until I run a 5k and haven't been practicing.
      I'm on my way to the gym but was justifying my reasoning why I should skip the run today.
      But you convinced me to get to my running on thanks! You are hilarious.
    • Posts: 66 Member
      Ha! OMG you're hilarious! Congrats on your progress!
    • Posts: 10 Member
      desweds wrote: »
      “Ding! Begin Walking”

      The ladyvoice of Week 3, Day 1 of Couch to 5k wasn't reassuring as she commanded my 5 minute warm up walk. I know what this day meant. I’d already looked ahead to what she was going to ask me to do today: FOUR THREE-MINUTE RUNS!?!?!?! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

      For the record, two weeks ago I couldn't run half a block. Granted, by last week ladyvoice got me up to two minutes runs – which impressed the CRAP out of me – but now THREE MINUTES? My excuses-per-second generator speeds up as the first of the three-minute runs approach:
      I’m 53! I'm morbidly obese! My joints hurt! I have a hiatal hernia! I'm diabetic!

      “Ding! RUN!”

      OK, you stupid smartphone app, I’ll run. Here I go. 13 minute pace. Slow. Who cares? I’m moving and that’s good enough. My feet go: plop, plop, plop. The cruel, uncaring app counts down the three minute run:

      “Ding! One Minute!”

      WTF? That’s only one minute? I’ll never make three minutes. I’m dying here! I can’t get enough air! My heart rate is too high! Ouch, I stepped on a pebble! How the hell am I supposed to…Oh look! A pretty girl…

      “Ding! Two Minutes!”

      My android phone must be powerful as it is clearly warping the space time continuum cuz’ there is NO GOD DAMN WAY I've only been running for 120 seconds. But it’s OK as I know sweet death will soon wrap itself around me, my corpse left on the side of the street. Woodland creatures will walk by and quietly mourn me. I will be at peace. My head is spinning. Yet my feet are moving… time is lost on me…
      COME TAKE ME BROTHER DEATH! INTO THY HANDS…

      “Ding! Walk!”

      Was...that…a ding I heard? Does that mean…I DID IT? I did! I ran three minutes. Nee Ner Nee Ner! I’m walking now, breathing hard with hands on my hips. Recovering.

      Meh. That was easy. Only three more of those? No problem.

      Go away Brother Death. Mr. Healthy does not need you now!

      HAHAHA!!! I'm doing the program also so I find this absolutely HILARIOUS!! Thanks :smiley:
    • Posts: 82 Member
      I love this post!!! It is so real.... When I first tried it, it was so hard... I gave up. But you really inspired me to not give up.... Thank you!!
    • Posts: 23 Member
      Wonderful! What a fantastic writer =) And with a sense of humor too. But what I found, was that you are motivational. I think I'll invest in a couch to 5k myself. So thank you. Keep up the great work!
    • Posts: 137 Member
      Goo job! I have been thinking of starting. I don't run unless something is chasing me. Now I may start C25K sooner than I planned. Thanks
    • Posts: 683 Member
      Love c25k
    • Posts: 49 Member
      Its like your in my thoughts!! Hahahaha!!!
    • Posts: 107 Member
      bloody88 wrote: »
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      Well i loved your post and i am sure that everyone that has read it did as well. Glad to see that you've progressed so much :smiley:

      Exactly!!!
    • Posts: 1,553 Member
      I am loving this!! Way to go!!!
    • Posts: 1,581 Member
      maryjboom wrote: »
      Goo job! I have been thinking of starting. I don't run unless something is chasing me. Now I may start C25K sooner than I planned. Thanks

      If you need things to chase you try the Run Zombies App. It's a 5k training with added Zombies.
    • Posts: 216 Member
      Thank you for my morning giggle. I needed it today. Miss Attitude Panties is driving me crazy at work today. Maybe I could send Mr. Brother Death her way. Ooops, did I just put that in print???
    • Posts: 272 Member
      That is awesome! I started it and only made it 2 days before I gave up. I really need to get back into it as I am doing a 5k in less than a month!!! Thank you for the inspiration! :)
    • Posts: 842 Member
      That's fantastic! You're awesome!!!
    • Posts: 158 Member
      Love this... hilarious!
    • Posts: 1,090 Member
      Awesomeness. I read it out loud, with voices. Fantastic.
    • Posts: 23 Member
      Oh my god that was hilarious!
    • Posts: 201 Member
      THANK YOU!!!! I am 50 and just started c25k. My joints are NOT pleased. Your post made me feel alot better and gave me hope to continue. thanks!
    • Posts: 339 Member
      I used C25K starting in January and ran a 5K in April. Just by reading that, I could just hear her voice. I remember sometimes when running in that program, I would check my phone because I figured I paused it somehow. There was no way I hadn't already run the 3 minutes!!
    • Posts: 7,097 Member
      desweds wrote: »
      LOL! How do people even find this old post of mine? Well, I've long since finished C25K and have run four 5Ks since them. I can't recommend this program enough.

      Your thread is in the "most helpful posts" sticky thread in this forum, and it well deserves to be there. Awesome post!

      I'm doing C25K and in Week 3 at the moment. I'm dreading Week 4 but can't wait!

      I'm also doing parkrun, and planning to do other town's parkruns when I can do the full 5K. Loving it!
    • Posts: 126 Member
      Cool! I'm a stickie! Didn't know.
    • Posts: 644 Member
      Hahaha! Pretty much how I felt doing that entire program. =p Hope you continue enjoying it!
    • Posts: 4,366 Member
      I'm glad this post floated back up, because it made my day to read it!
    • Posts: 126 Member
      It's been a year so I've written a wrapup article.

      https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10272913/bite-me-c25k-what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-when-i-started

    • Posts: 1,375 Member
      Dude! You cracked me up!

      I totally felt the same way EVERY WEEK! I just knew I couldn't do it---and then I did!

      I hope you will report back on your first 5k!
    • Posts: 35 Member
      awesome, do you get a runners high after running to the ladyvoice's directions, or feel like your lungs have stretched slightly (in a good way)
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