It's all do-able!! Trust me, if the programme works for a guy over 230lbs it can work for anyone!! Stick with it and believe in yourself...you CAN push through it

Get the right shoes to make it much much easier...it was a godsend for me!!

I am starting week 4 Monday, at 300+ its going to be hard but I am game.

I had my third day of week 4 today and felt a lot more comfortable than the first time
Can't wait for week 5, even though I'm really scared xD

Great job! I did W4D2 today and am loving it! I've noticed I can run the whole time if I pay attention to running slowly

i''m the same way. As long as I don't burn myself out I can do the whole run plus a few extra minutes on the end!!

I was hurting at the end of the second 5 minutes but stayed at my pace of 5mph, granted I had to grab the rails on the treadmill for a minute. Hope the next 2 days of this get better.

Failed today at the gym. Did strength training for legs then tried to run. My legs were beat, so i did a 3 min run and then a brisk walk for 20+. Going to give them a days rest and try W4D2 again.

You guys are doing awesome! Keep it up . I'm a week or so behind you. Having calf cramp problems but I think they are getting under control. I'm going to repeat week 3 I believe. Can't wait to be able to go 5 minutes at a time though! That is wonderful!

I start W4D1 tomorrow and am nervous about it. Cross you fingers!!

Let us know how it goes!

Happy to hear about your successful run :drinker: Take care of your knees. Hmmm...my knees are very crunchy noisemakers, maybe I need to get fish oil too!

I just did week 4 day 1 and it about killed me! I was ok for the first two intervals (and feeling pretty awesome to be able to go 5 minutes!) but after the next 3 minute interval I totally stopped for one minute, then continued and on the last 5 minute interval was suffering the whole time and my form went to pot and I was hanging all over the handrails of the treadmill. I'm still counting it as a success! This week is a bigger jump up than the other weeks have been.

I was on week 3 a few weeks ago before quitting. I don't really have any good excuses, I just got lazy and had a hard time finding the time. Now I've decided to go running in the evening after I put my son to bed. I picked up where I left off this past Saturday evening on week 4 day 1, but I left off that last 5 minute run. It was on accident, I didn't look up the schedule before leaving the house. But I'm starting again week 4 day 1 tonight, day 2 tomorrow, and day 3 on Thursday. Then next week is week 5.


I really surprised myself when I went out on Saturday night... especially after being out of it for 3 weeks. I started out with the 3 minute run and I couldn't believe that after the 3 minutes were up I was barely even winded. And then I got through the 5 minute run fine as well. Can't wait until the next challenge.

I decided to repeat WK4 -- just didn't feel comfortable going into WK5. Because it was soooo breezy here yesterday afternoon, I ran on the treadmill -- would have rather been outside as I tend to lose my balance on the treadmill. Next week will be WK5 -- no excuses.

Did week 4 day 2 today and feel really good about it!.. On day 1 I did finish the runs as prescribed but was really really struggling on the last 5 minute interval was hanging on the treadmill rails in a ugly fashion.

Today I didn't have time to "psych myself up" for hours as I usually seem to do, because I had company coming and had to do it as soon as I got up to have time to shower and return to somewhat human form before he got here, from the bedraggled mess that I feel after doing the C25k.

Anyway I told myself that it was ok to try to strive to do just at least 30 seconds more on each interval than week 3 and then more if I could do it without hanging on rails, and see what happened. So I did 3 minutes (that's as week 4 prescribes) then 3 minutes (which was supposed to be 5 minutes) and then 2 minutes (supposed to be 3 minutes) and then on the last interval my legs loosened up or something and I did 5:30 (supposed to be 5). So it was a total of 13:30 jogging, week 3 was 9 minutes jogging and week 4 is supposed to be 16:00 jogging so I felt this was good progress since I was able to maintain some semblance of form vs. my 1st try of week 4. I was real happy about finishing up with 5:30. I'll be repeating this week. Today it felt like this weird discomfort on the outside of my left leg was holding me back, my breathing felt tons better. It's always my left leg giving me various discomforts, we've worked through the calf cramps, and then the achilles tendon soreness, and I'm very often saying to myself "left leg, why can't you be like right leg, which feels fine, you're holding me back" LOL.

Then my friend said he wanted to go for a walk when we got here which made me happy, its so nice walking while talking with a friend and I rarely have anyone want to go with me.

I have to go out of town next week for 10 days and I'm too self conscious to jog in public yet, so this bums me out. On the upside I'm going to Hawaii so I guess I'll survive :laugh:

Hope everyone is doing well wherever they are in the program, and sorry for rambling!

I just did Week 3 Day 3 today. Earlier this week, I thought I was going to have to repeat week 3, but I think I might be okay to move on to 4. For me the difference was actually getting enough sleep, and eating appropriately. I have finally accepted that I cannot eat out or have anything remotely bad to eat prior to a run. It takes the fun out of everything but its better than feeling like I need a primatene mist pump on the jogging trail.