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

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I stopped for about a month, but I have never finished this program. I refused to start over. So I started back were I left off at the beginning of week 6. I finished W6 D3 last night and I am so proud of myself for completing 22 minutes without stopping. It may not have been a fast pace run, but I finished it.

Great job finishing! I just did Week 7 Day 2 last night. Hoping to do Day 3 tomorrow but might need an extra day of rest. Listen to your body. Don't give up. You can do it!

Hi. I am new as well. I did week 2 day 1 this morning. It was ok except that I somehow put my phone in sleep mode and only got push alerts as to when to run for the first 2 prompts. lol. I thought it was a pretty long warm up walk so I pulled out my phone and looked. But I did do the 2 missed runs based on the distance that the other 90 second runs would get me. (1 and a quarter laps on the indoor track.) I don't want to make this mistake again. Slow as a turtle but faster than the dude on the couch!

After day 3 of week 2, I fell flat on my butt outside the gym on the ice. I cracked my tail bone. I am at a slight stand still for now.

Aw thanks. I went onto the elliptical yesterday and that was fine. I am going to try to swim tomorrow. It's not that bad except when moving from sitting to standing or standing to sitting. I can definitely do things to stay active, just maybe not what I want to do. I am just really bummed it happened but it could have been a lot worse.

week 3, day 1 done.

It nearly killed me but no unscheduled walks for me.