After an ignominious failure last time around, I find myself about to finish week 6. So, I’m curious:
Who stuck with the program?
Who dropped out and if you did, did you replace it with some other form of torture?
Anyone run more than three times a week now?
Or farther than 5K?
I’m determined to finish the program, but I can’t help wondering, does anyone actually like doing this? :dubious:
I’m starting up again - I was on crutches from Thanksgiving to Christmas. It was awful. I’ve promised my niece and nephews (sedentary obnoxious children) that anybody who beats me in the St. Patrick’s Day 5K gets five bucks, so there’s some impetus. 
I completed C25K last year, and ended up running several 5Ks and an 8K before I hurt my foot training for a 15K in November. Since then, I’ve run a few times and started doing some swimming to keep up the cardio, and yoga to try to keep things limber. And now that it’s full-in winter here in Chicago, it’s been a little difficult to muster the stones to run outside (I really detest treadmills). But I’ve got cold weather running pants, running gloves, wool socks, an earwarmer and a sweet jacket, so I have no excuses (negative wind chills aside).
Soon I’ll be running more often during the week, as I plan to do the Soldier Field 10 mile at the end of May, and am going to train for the marathon in October.
As far as coming to like the program, I’ve said this in various and sundry threads, but with C25K I went from HATING running to, well, deciding to train for the marathon. C25K gave me both a great base level of fitness (once you can run 5K, it’s a great start for increasing mileage, if that’s the route you want to go), and the confidence to push myself mentally and physically in a way I never imagined. So, sappy anecdotes aside, here’s hoping you complete this time around. You’re darn close.
I’m a drop out but I hope to try again soon. First it was too hot, then I was too busy and right now it’s too cold (I really can’t exercise in the cold, it sets off my asthma) but this is Florida so it should warm up pretty soon. The trick will be to get going again before it is once again too hot.
We have a group at work that started it today. Maybe this will give me the courage to get off of week 1! They’re shooting for St. Paddy’s Day 5K: I’m shooting for the Diabetes walk in October. With my size right now, I think that’s a more realistic goal.
I did the couch to 5k, then the run for an hour. My shoulder bothered me tremendously, so I had to take about 3 weeks off. I’m back running again (as of last week).
I’ve gone from dreading it, to grudgingly doing it, to actually liking running. I even got a pair of vibrams to test out. I use them for weight lifting as well (more stability on squats).
I am starting over again - after an all-time high of doing a half-marathon last summer. After hurting my ITB and then the dog bite, then having pneumonia - it’s been a rough half year for running.
But I am back at it and hoping to run 2 half-marathons and maybe a full this year. I also have some Olympic Tri s on the schedule, so we’ll see how this year shapes up!
I have been on hiatus due to severe cold weather in the morning. Last time I tried it I got an ice cream headache and every part of me that was exposed hurt.
My job generally allows me to run whenever I want, but a colleague from the UK has been in and so I don’t go out in the afternoons. When he leaves I will go back to running. My dog needs it more than I, I think.
I’m a drop out. I went to Vegas in the middle of my program last summer and just never got fully back into the swing though I kept running a mile 2-3 days a week just to stay in some kind of shape.
I moved to Texas in October and decided that I was going to spend my time down here getting in shape like I used to do in the summers getting ready for football. So far its working. I ran 4.1 miles for the first time this decade over Christmas and ran 8 miles last week.
Once I get back to Colorado I’m going to start training for a half marathon this summer. So over all I consider myself a success just because the program got me off the couch and to a point where I could improve on my own.
That’s not dropping out, Oredigger77, that’s graduating.
I do have a complaint, other than the usual aches and pains: my shadow. It doesn’t glide along like the 20-something gazelles who pass me every day, or even aspire to the confident gait of the 70 year old guy in the MARINES T-shirt I always see out there. My shadow is Edith, trotting to the kitchen for a beer. 
I’m at week eight. I’ll finish it for sure. Go me.
I’m on week eight too, after having done week seven three times – I couldn’t really concentrate on it due to the holidays. I’m really surprised that I can do the 28 minutes run and not feel more than a bit hot and tired afterward. It’s pretty awesome
I thought people in my family would buy me some running stuff for Christmas, like shirts and light jackets, but no one did. I tried to hint pretty strongly but I guess either no one picked up on it or they didn’t think I would stick with it. I’m proving them wrong!
The snow and cold weather does bother me a bit. I’ve been running on slush for weeks, and I think my endurance suffers because of it. But I can’t run on a treadmill, because I don’t have access to one, so I’m kind of stuck with the great outdoors. Running in snow can be a really beautiful experience, especially when it’s coming down in big fat flakes, and no one else is out so it’s quiet and peaceful.
I hated it. I hate running around my neighborhood like an idiot. I switched to dancing instead, and have been doing so ever since.
I. Hate. Running.
Emil Zatopek is the only man who won the Olympic 5000, 10000 and marathon in one Games yet he was described as “running like a man who had been stabbed in the heart”. He had just about the worst running form seen at the world class level yet he’s one of the greats of distance running.
I graduated. I run 3 times a week, though I’m still pretty slow. I have to take breaks sometimes because of a foot problem, but I have been converted into someone who runs. It’s spiffy!
I am restarting it after a long hiatus.
Day 1, Week 1 down. I’m so much more out of shape than I was a few years ago.
I am a big guy (280+lbs @ 5’10") and was able to get to about week 5. My knee started to hurt and I was really wary about continuing. I stopped for a week or two and started up again. I got to week 2 and dropped out. I was able to do it on my lunch break and one of my co-workers was doing it with me, but she normally runs and kept a faster pace then me. I might try again once I can get a new watch but I would feel bad not asking her to join me because it was hard to keep up.
I was able to lose only about 10 lbs because I have little to no will power when it comes to food. I would order extra food on my way home justifying that I was doing the running. Of course I would for get the first part of loosing weight. Eat less, move more.
I finished it and I too went from someone who hated running to someone who enjoyed it. I upped it to 4 times a week after I finished, the furthest I ran in one go was 8k. But I haven’t been out since mid-December. A chest infection followed by icy footpaths has stopped me. But there seems to be a bit of a thaw, so I should really start back to it again this week.
Did it years back. Running is still my 1st choice of exercise, I tend to do 6K at the gym 4 times a week (in 40 mins) and a longer run at weekend ~ 6 miles ish. I have no real motivation to move much beyond this.
I used to be able to run more than 3 times a week, and when I was started, I ran that much. Now, classes and work have interferred, but I still work out in other areas, and I still run/jog 30 mins 2-3 times a week.
I feel bad if a week passes and I can’t run. Weird…
The few times I’ve timed myself, I know I can finish a mile in slightly less than 10 mins, so if I jog/run 30 minutes, I’m doing slightly more than 5K.