Thread: Couch to 5 kilometres (C25K) Challenge!

im toying with doing the london marathon next year! still got along way to go though. good luck with yours

iv finished week 3 now iv been doing day 1 and 2 for agesssss i think i was to scared to move on! but i did it and it wasnt so bad. =]

I'm doing the race for life run in 2 months time. So scared. I'm ok going for brisk walks and jogging and walking on the treadmill but to jog around other people (not runners I mean spectators) is gonna be hard as I get so nervous! But it's for a brilliant charity so I've got to keep that in mind. I'm hoping to do a light jog and seem ok on the treadmill but we shall see I guess

I completed 3 weeks then hit a brick wall at week 4. I'd missed one day at the gym and the next time I went i just could't do it. The first time I failed i stormed out of the gym in a huff with my self but last night I was angry but i stayed at the gym and went right back to week 2. I completed week 2 day 3 again and on saturday will start week 3 again. At first I was so annoyed with mysel but now I'm proud that i didnt just give up and storm out again!

Did anyone else struggle with week 4? God help me when i get to week 5!!! x

Originally Posted by x Lulu x

I completed 3 weeks then hit a brick wall at week 4. I'd missed one day at the gym and the next time I went i just could't do it. The first time I failed i stormed out of the gym in a huff with my self but last night I was angry but i stayed at the gym and went right back to week 2. I completed week 2 day 3 again and on saturday will start week 3 again. At first I was so annoyed with mysel but now I'm proud that i didnt just give up and storm out again!

Did anyone else struggle with week 4? God help me when i get to week 5!!! x

Hon... I'm really proud you didn't give up and have gone back to it. Some people do find they need to repeat a week again before moving on. If you have trouble again with week 4, then repeat a day of week 3 the next time. My sister had to do this too! So don't worry about it, we need to build up our muscles and stamina nice and slowly. You're doing great... Don't look ahead to week 5 or 6 etc. because that used to scare me into thinking I couldn't do it (and I _could_) xxx

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Iv Just finished week three and started week 4 I know what you mean I did week 3 for about 2weeks because wen I looked at week 4 I just told myself I couldn't do it but when I did week 4 it really wasn't as bad as I thought it just seems daunting because it seems so much! But once you get into a rhythm it flys gook luck and good on you for not givin up x

Originally Posted by x Lulu x

I completed 3 weeks then hit a brick wall at week 4. I'd missed one day at the gym and the next time I went i just could't do it. The first time I failed i stormed out of the gym in a huff with my self but last night I was angry but i stayed at the gym and went right back to week 2. I completed week 2 day 3 again and on saturday will start week 3 again. At first I was so annoyed with mysel but now I'm proud that i didnt just give up and storm out again!

Did anyone else struggle with week 4? God help me when i get to week 5!!! x

Dont give up lulu you have made it this far. On the first day of every wk i struggle but am doing wk 6 day 2 today and then tomorrow is a solid 25 min jog. I never thought id get to here but have even though i felt like giving it up sometimes so go easy on yourself and take as long as you have to x x

Thanks everyone! On saturday I was so annoyed but yesterday just took a step back. At least i did something! I still completed the rest of my gym programme plus the 30 min run/walk so its all good. I've had a few bad weeks but tried my hardest this week to not cheat and not to skip any of my gym/swim plan lol. WI tomorrow so fingers crossed it will show on the scales! x

Im sure it will have paid off. Good luck for tomorrow x x

Hope everyone is getting on alright. Great weather for running. My first 10k coming up soon, I'll keep ye updated x

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Ok, call me stupid lol .. but been looking at the tredmill one, as i have a tredmill, and i dont get it lol
the 5.00 to 6.00 run etc .. does that mean i have to run for an hour, and then walk for an hour? and do we have to finish the whole thing? ie .. 5.00 to 30.00? .. i would really like to try this, sorry for beeing so dumb lol

Originally Posted by zi-ann

Ok, call me stupid lol .. but been looking at the tredmill one, as i have a tredmill, and i dont get it lol
the 5.00 to 6.00 run etc .. does that mean i have to run for an hour, and then walk for an hour? and do we have to finish the whole thing? ie .. 5.00 to 30.00? .. i would really like to try this, sorry for beeing so dumb lol

No no hon that's your time in minutes. See from 00:00 to 5:00 is your 5 min warmup walk. Then from 5:00 to 6:00 is 1 minute of jogging, 6:00 to 7:30 is 1 min 30 secs walk then 7:30 to 8:30 is 1 minute jogging and so on and on for 20 mins (it constantly alternates between walking and jogging to build you up slowly). You do the whole 30 minutes yes (10 mins of that is the warmup & cool down walk)
Hope that helped a bit, do you have anything you can download one of the apps on maybe? It might be clearer than the way I'm trying to explain. Xx

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Thanks ... you explained it perfectaly ... i am going to start this tomorow, but will only be able to do 1 week as am on holiday the first week of june

IM on week 5 now going great =] amd i love it and its making me have amazing losses. =]

Do you need do it every day?

Nooooooo you will burn yourself out. do a day then miss a day. so every other day basically. =]