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August C25K starters :)

guest — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:16:15 GMT

Hello. I started September 18. I've finished the couch to 5k once before, after a few false starts, and was doing three or four miles regularly until the winter. I had just started again when I broke my leg at the end of April. Not running, I was walking in the woods and slipped. No surgery or cast; just crutches and a walking boot. Now after a down summer I am trying again.

I just did the first day of week four. It is tiring but I know I can do it. Might sign up for a 5k turkey trot since that would be after week nine but will wait until later to see how I feel.

Re: Is anyone else at Week 3 of C25K right now?

guest — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:17:00 GMT

Done with W5D1. Cut the grass in the morning, sat in traffic and other time consuming activities all day, and now the run. Tomorrow is a work detail for my club: eight hours of hauling, shoveling, painting, cleaning, whatever. I will be more sore from that than anything.

I do have a question about my ankles. This isn't limited to one side. I have looked on the stretching and strengthening pages and have not seen this covered. It feels like my foot is going to fly off while walking, long after exercising. It does not hurt when I take a step, but when I lift my foot, it feels like my foot stays on the ground, the muscles going down the outside and inside of my ankle feel like they are being stretched...as if my foot was being pulled off. It goes down to the foot itself, below the ankle.

A long time ago I was seeing a chiropractor and he marveled at how weak my feet and ankles were. This was when I was still in high school and college, an athlete (haha). He would grab my foot and have me push it from side to side. Most of the time I couldn't even move it all, with no resistance. He gave me exercises to do but they did not help.

Any advice?

Re: Is anyone else at Week 3 of C25K right now?

guest — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:07:00 GMT

I am doing W4D3 tonight. I have reduced my speed just to keep in the spirit of things.

I am glad I found this training program. I tried running back in May after walking all spring. Just cranked it up to 5MPH figuring I'd run for 20 minutes. At 9 minutes I sounded and felt like an unbalanced washing machine. I was limping because of a bad knee, gasping for air, probably seconds from passing out. Now I have coinfidence I'll get to and pass 9 minutes easily.

Eight more days of workouts and then vacation. I started doing pushups and crunches on my off days. No weight loss, must be all the muscle I am building.

Still have stretching questions. While I understand it, I don't like the "walk for five minutes, stretch, and then do workout" concept. If it was in the morning I could agree with being stiff, but not in the afternoon.

Not all stretches feel right. Not hurting anything, just either that I am stretching nothing, or no doing it right.

Re: Is anyone else at Week 3 of C25K right now?

guest — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:39:00 GMT

I hope someone serious can post a reply to this thread. I started C25K 5 weeks ago. I doubled up on week one. I will do W4D1 Sept. 1. I am planning on doing it every other day, going on a two week vacation Sept 13, and then restarting at W3, 4 or 5 when I get back.

But my main question is about the numbers. I cannot help it, scientist at heart. I just can't do something and have someone say, 'Do what you feel! It's all for fun!' I look at the chart and converted the numbers to upper limits. W4D1 says Jog 1/4 mile or 3 minutes, Walk 1/8 mile or 90 seconds. It's the same speed! Am I jogging too fast? Should pick a pace where I either walk or run? I'd rather have it be a range of speeds or a percentage. Something that says, if you were jogging at 4MPH in W1, you should be at 4.2MPH for W5 and 4.4 for W9. And don't say there should not be an increase, because the numbers increase.

I know it is designed to get me off the couch. I know I should forget the numbers...but I can't.

And really jumping the gun...what is next? Do W9 for a year? Start back at W5 each month and increase the MPH by some amount?

While I am ranting, how much stretching does everyone do? I try most on the stretching page, but that takes up 20 minutes. I know it is important, but does anyone but the serious runners stretch that much?

Thanks for listening.