TheGaudyMagpie wrote: »

I like podcasts because they're episodic. Two episodes of Lore usually covers a workout and I don't have to stop in the middle of anything. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I ended up listening to music for the race because it was too hard to listen to the podcasts with all of the people and distractions, but I've been enjoying them on my training runs.

I recommend the Guilty Feminist podcast, its funny and thought-provoking.

(Oh, and it notifies you to start as normal)

You can do this!

It's hard to run in high humidity. If it were me, I'd redo week 4 before dropping back a week. You've already managed week 3 so I'd continue to try to meet the challenge of week 4 to keep up the challenge. It sounds like you are almost there if you are running at least some of the segments you couldn't finish.

Ugh. I just realized it's a half hour today. I was really tired yesterday and didn't plan to run today, but last night the husband reminded me that tomorrow is teen girl's dance recital, so that would mean no running until Sunday, which is too long. So I packed my running bag. Normally I'm pretty hyped but today I'm kind of blah about it. I'm also trying really hard to cut out my afternoon coffee because I'm terrible at sleeping as it is. Oh well. It's the last week and I should be done next Tuesday. I'm looking forward to mixing in some new stuff like hill runs and speed intervals. I'm happy with how far I've come, but it's getting a little sloggy.

@tinkerbellang83 That seems like a good plan then. If you didn't do all of week 3 then you may be correct that it's why you are struggling. Week 4 is a pretty significant escalation and I can see that a missing "bridge" day would cause problems.

I did go and run, and of course it was fine when I got there. When I drove up, I saw my husband's truck and he was there walking laps (he doesn't run) so I was able to do cool down with him. Just before I got to the park, I was stopped at a lot and the third car behind me didn't stop, causing a chain reaction up to the car immediately behind me. Luckily he managed to keep from being pushed forward. I've only had my car for two months so it would have been awful.

My legs are super tired today and I woke up starving in the middle of the night, even after a big dinner. I'm not going to run again until at least Sunday and I might wait until Monday because it's clear I need a rest and some food. I will be hiking tomorrow though and it's a pretty moderate hike -- 4 miles round trip with a 1,000 ft elevation gain. It's a hike I've done many times (it's very popular because it's relatively short but still challenging), but I haven't done it since starting C25K. I am curious about how I do now that I am a lot more conditioned. And I'm excited to be doing something that's not running in a circle for a half hour.

It has been humid here too (Berks) so I get what you mean. I'm going to attempt wk5 day3, the dreaded 20 min run, tomorrow morning. Have you done it yet @Steve25k?

Good luck with the week three re-run. When are you planning to start?

Well, I used to have to stop and rest a few times going up the mountain, but I didn't have to at all today. I have two more days for the program and I'll do them Monday and Wednesday. I think that on Friday I will run up and down the first steep hill to the hike a few times.

@rianneonamission congratulations on running the 20 mins - I've just come back from doing it (Monday morning) I should have done it Friday but got overtaken by events.

It's quite amazing to think that only 5 weeks ago I was struggling with 90 seconds of running!

Im looking forward to week 6 now, the 22 minutes on day 3 doesn't look so daunting now.

Started week 6 today and it almost seemed harder to get through than the last run of week 5, despite the walk breaks!

@rianneonamission not too bad actually - my left shin ached a bit and I noticed that my left foot kind of just flopped onto the floor probably because the muscle in my shin wasn't good enough to control it. My right one was fine. I was a little surprise to see that I hadn't broken any strava records despite this being the first time I'd run 1 mile non stop.

Yay! Staying on track with my C25K. Just completed Week 3 day 1. Not as bad as I thought it'd be. Looking forward to the next run!

I only have one more run left! I'll finish up tomorrow night. The 30 minute run last night was surprisingly easy. Doing this program is seriously one of the best things I've ever done.

I will probably try to do 32 minutes on Friday and increase time until I'm doing a 5K. Last night I somehow got to an 11:07 mile, so I'm hoping to hit distance without adding on too much time.