Hi!

Sounds like everybody is off to a great start!  I just finished W3D1 and completed my first 3 min. run.  I remeber when 60 sec runs were hard!  I'm really excited about this!
How are you all doing?

Vertigoagian,

I'm sure your doing great!  3 min runs are the beginning of wk 3.  I thought I'd never get there, but I did and so will you!  As some one told me, just keep running, running, running.

Not sure how to do this quote thing but And-she-ran, shall we trade apologies I didn't mean to sound like your blog put me off; it didn't it is inspiring that someone is finding the little daily battles just challenging enought to keep going and that progress is being made on a steady basis.

I tried a new route this morning [W1D2, yes I made it to a whole day two, too, twit-twoo] because I wanted to get better GPS stats but it seems to have messed up 1 running interval by 0.02mile [at my stage these inches [35 yds} are important

After running session 3 My achilles on the inside of my right foot suddenly hurt and I couldn't push off from my toes. Should I quit? Possibly. Did I quit? No. I walked carefully until it eased and then ran slightly differently. I hope it does not inflame too much. Did I complete all the 8 sessions? YES!! It's only slightly tender to the touch now.

W1D2 [including railway bridge twice]

1.13miles 0.01 more than W1D1

Pace 16.25m/mile 0:07m faster

Overall time 18:30 same

Fastest interval 12:34m/mile 0:13m slower (steadier now)

Now eating my huge bowl of watermelon and looking forward to going out hashing this evening (maybe walking only) and resting up until Thursday!

Keep those runs coming in.

I'm actually about to start, either this evening or tomorrow (Tuesday,) I'm waiting on my new shoes to come in, I managed to tear the stitching out of the sides of my old ones from wearing shoes too narrow, so I went to a store Friday and they were very helpful, but my shoes (needing to be 4Es) had to be ordered. They should be in today, though. I'm pretty excited to start this program, though I have a few problems. On the heel to buttock stretch I can't actually grab my leg behind me, I'm not very limber, so I'm working with what i can do to stretch without hurting myself.

Did Week 1, Day 2 yesterday and felt great. I did it early in the morning and when I was half way through it started to pour rain. It got me more motivated. I liked it a lot & was able to do all of the runs this time. I will most likely repeat a couple of days before moving up to Week 2 just so I take it at my own pace. I tried at least doing 1 run for the 1.5 minutes to see if I could it. I had so much energy yesterday & felt wonderful. Can't wait to try it tomorrow.

Hi, all.. I started this i think at about the time this thread started, but I just found this forum.  I've been walking forever, but was never able to make the leap to running. I love this C25K program. I'm on Week 3, and should complete the 9 weeks by the end of Sept if I can keep on keepin' on as they say. I use a couple free aps for my smart phone to help me time the intervals and keep track of how far I've gone. Endomondo is really cool because i can run different courses and trails and still know how far, and it also tracks pace and aprox. calories used. the other one is A HIIT interval timer.. it's really flexible for the weeks in the middle.

My last training run was the first time I had to run for 3 minutes. I thought that thing would never beep. but on the second round, I didn't even notice I'd gone 3 minutes. Wierd, huh?

I signed up for a 5k race in my neighborhood at the end of October. I'm running on trails till I can run a full 5K, then I'll start running on the course, which has hills.

Running today: it will be my 2nd day of week 3.