I was roaming through the W5's postings and there seems to be a large group of us still continuing with C25K!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!!!!

Most of us seem to have conquered a "large mountain" with D3...it now seems that anything is possible with our running pursuits (4 weeks ago we struggled with 90secs...now we are powering through 20 MINTUES STRAIGHT!!!!)

Keep your thoughts positive, recover from your injuries and go out and run/walk through with a smile!!!!

Good luck on your next run!!!

Ps - Bring on W6!

Happy week 6 to everyone! I did W6D1 yesterday and it was a good run. After W5D3 it was really doable. I am anxious to get to D2 now. Our last day of intervals! I think those of you who have been waiting for more changes in your bodies will start to see them once we are running those longer times with regularity.

W6D1 under the belt!

Still feeling slugish....For some reason I have lost motivation. I have to 'make' myself walk out the door. Previous weeks I was eager to get out there...not sure what is up?!?!?

May need to take a closer look at my diet. I do easy alternate days - I walk for 1 hour (something I have been doing for over 1 year now, so no difference there. I actually feel better at the end of the walks since starting C25K)

Hopefully its a temporary slump and I will gt my second wind for D2 and beyond.

Sorry for the negative vibes.

Will send out positive vibes to all that are running today.
Goodluck to everyone!!!!

I have fallen behind. Today I did w5d2.
Won't start week 6 till Friday, so good luck to everyone here. You're doing great!

Hi all,

I've been reading this group for a week now and I wanted to chime in. I'm doing the C25K on my own because my workout buddy ditched me in the second week, so it's good to know that others are out there going through it too!

I'm going to do week 6 over again this week because I wasn't able to get through day 3 last night. I went for a pretty intense hike that left me with massive blisters, so I ended up doing day 2 again.

Are any of you treadmill runners like me?? I do 1 day a week outside, and the other 2 on the treadmill...just because it's more convenient since I run at night. Though, I must say that I push myself more when I'm outside!

Does anyone have any suggestions for nutrition/diet? I could really use some tips.

Hope everyone has a great day!!

Hey, everyone, I'm poppping back in after skipping out last week. I had multiple "issues," starting with recovering from a bad sunburn from last weekend. I'm not sure if it was sun stroke or whatever, but the beginning of my week was recovering from having a fever & chills from the bad burn, then having 3-4 days of swelling-in my face. Yes, stupidity has a price to pay.

Then starting Friday my ankles & feet, & even part of my lower legs swelled up & I have no idea why. It's gotten better, almost back to normal today. I've never had that happen before, don't know if it's something to do with the thrombophlebitis that's still present or what.

All I know is today I'm ready to get back out there-or in there, since I do the TM at the gym. I was so happy to come back here & see everyone sticking to it, great job everyone! I'm going to be a little behind now, but we'll see how it goes. I actually miss the running, and I have some stress that's just screaming for a release!

Sounds like so many of you are having that post big run blah run. Don't get discouraged. If you did the 20 minutes 2 days ago, maybe your body is still recovering. I'm sure D2 runs will be much better.

Welcome to all those who joined us! I'm glad you found us and I'm pretty impressed that you've all managed to keep yourselves motivated through the first 5 weeks alone. Only 4 more weeks to go for us.

Hootie83 - good to hear that your knee was fine with the 20 minute run. The bike cross training was probably a good idea.

Sunnygirl & marylandmom - bad days happen. keep going and you'll get another good day.

I just finished W6D1 and it went really well. I'll be glad when the intervals are over so I don't have to do so much math in my head. Walk 5 minutes, run until 12 (or was it 13?), walk until ..... You get the idea. I ended up doing one really really long interval last week by mistake because I lost track of the math. Oops. Next week, it's just solid running.

I'm not running as fast as the other runners who pass me, but my cadence is almost as high, so my stride must be really short. It feels good to actually, sorta kinda feel like a runner. Now on to Day 2! Good luck to everyone.