W4D1 last night. Walking 3mph, Jogging 5 mph in the 3 min sections and 4.5mph in the 5 minute sections. I was a little intimidated to try the 5 minute sections at 5mph - I probably could have done it but chickened out.

W5D2 yesterday with my husband. Ran it very slowly, due to feeling blah and achy after flu shot. I think we are going to repeat this day before tackling the big 20 minute run, since it wasn't what it should have been due to illness. But we did get through it!

The weather is perfect right now, could not be prettier. I hope it stays that way, since I really prefer running outside to the treadmill. And running on the river trail at the park is nice because it's up and down hill, you have to dodge tree roots and branches, etc., which uses different muscles and makes it less repetitive.

W5d1 tomorrow after 2 weeks of week4.

New here! I did W4D2 on Sunday night (I couldn't get out last night or the night before), and it was worse for me than W4D1. On D1 I did the 30, then 5-, then 3-minute runs without stopping and took like a 15-second break during the second 5-minute run (which I tacked on to the end). On D2 I couldn't even do the first 3-minute run without taking a break. All four runs had walking breaks. I had done a tough Spin workout the day before, so maybe that was it. I felt like I was physically unable to keep running.

I'll be doing W4D3 tonight and another W4 workout tomorrow night with two other ladies who are doing C25K as well. I'll decide then if I want to do another W4 workout or progress to W5.

Repeated w5d3 going for distance rather than time. I'm so slow! But finished the two miles anyway. Unless I increase my speed substantially, running the final 30 minutes is not going to get me anywhere close to 3k. And I want to run 3k, thirty minutes which doesn't cover that distance is not going to count in a race!

rheddmobile wrote: »

Repeated w5d3 going for distance rather than time. I'm so slow! But finished the two miles anyway. Unless I increase my speed substantially, running the final 30 minutes is not going to get me anywhere close to 3k. And I want to run 3k, thirty minutes which doesn't cover that distance is not going to count in a race!

You are building stamina now. Speed will come later. Keep it up!

Did W5D1 on Friday night, didn't cheat once. I was going to continue W4 workouts until tonight but felt like doing something with fewer intervals. It was hard to do it without stopping to walk, but I just pushed myself. Got busy with other stuff all weekend and last night, so I am running again tonight. I'll be by myself, so I'm probably going to move on to W5D2.

Also, I've determined that I really like fewer intervals, so a 20-minute run will probably be just fine

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Had to skip several days due to illness with fever. I'm going to try it today. I'm a little worried because my bad knee with no ACL is tracking weird and the last time I ran, it made it sore. Usually it goes back in after a while, and I can run on it fine with a brace when it's in, but it seems like it doesn't want to go in this time. I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't improve. I'm not a good candidate for surgery.

@rheddmobile how did it go?

I met up with a lady in my neighborhood last night who had also done W5D2 already, so I left it up to her whether she wanted to try W5D3. She wanted to re-do D2 because she "cheated" on the runs, as had I, so I went along with it. First run was OK with 30 seconds of walking a few minutes in, second run was awful again. I don't know why I can't get my head into it. This time my left calf was bugging me. I am thinking about going out tonight and trying it again, or maybe I'll just go for W5D3. I've cheated on past workouts and still advanced and done fine.

I'm still slow but getting faster! When I did the 2 mile run at the end of wk 5, it took 27 minutes. Today did the 2.25 mile run at the end of wk 6, also took 27 minutes, with 12 min splits. Still can't run a 10 minute mile - I did some treadmill running at 6 mph to see what it was like and I get bushed about 4 minutes in. But I'm working up to it.

From now on instead of running the suggested time each workout, we are going to be running the suggested distance, since I'm pretty sure I can already run 30 minutes if I take it slowly enough, but we need to be able to run an actual 5k distance.

I ran Week 6 Day 3 last Thursday, then I didn't run at all over the weekend I was super busy with the kids on Saturday, then Sunday night, it rained. Monday it poured all day, so I went out last night to repeat Week 6. I did fine on the 5-minute runs, but that 8-minute run in between just kills me. I believe it's all in my head, though, as much of this is. I think I'm physically capable of completing it!

@rheddmobile Awesome for you for signing up for a 5K! I was looking at upcoming ones and wasn't too happy with what came up. Everything's either too far away or not a good day for me (like Thanksgiving morning).

I'm at week 7, which is just 25-minute runs, and week 8 is 28 minutes, 28 minutes, then 30 minutes. I decided that I need to work more on running longer times overall rather than running a relatively short chunk at a time, so I decided to run some intervals instead last night. I created an hour-long interval workout in Runkeeper. What I didn't bargain for was 43-degree temperatures and 25mph winds. It was miserable. I stayed out for 40 minutes and am amazed that I was out for that long! Thankfully the weather will be warming up again

First day of week 8! Yesterday was legs day at the gym so we were sort of hobbling around to start with - but you gotta do it or it doesn't get done! Doing both running and lifting is hard to manage.

We're doing distance rather than time, so we did 2.75 miles around the lake. It was an absolutely beautiful day. Shorts and t-shirt weather. People who run around the lake are starting to recognize us, it's a nice friendly place to run.

Just one more day at 2.75 and then the full 5k. I sort of feel like if a big guy with a whip had been standing over me I could have done 5k today, but since we were already tired we didn't push it. We stopped off at a sporting goods store and bought two waterproof running jackets on clearance, so hopefully we'll be set next time we run, which is supposed to be rainy. We've been lucky so far, we have never run in the rain!

We did it! Ran cross country and had some gas in the tank at 2.75 so we kept going and did the full 3.1 - I think probably more than that since the gps was off by about a quarter mile at the first mile split.

I did week 9r1 last night. I realised I haven’t really been checking in here for a while so thought I would