Have my last run of Week 7 tonight. D2 was rough since I was trying to keep my water intake down since about 5 mins into my run I really got to pee! I had a feeling this would backfire and about 15 minutes into my run the side pains started. I really hated myself, so…in the future… I’m just sticking to my normal water consumption.
Here’s an interest article I ran (hah) into the other day on why the C25k works.
Finished week 4. This was a rest/recovery week and - as designed to be - was an easy one to finish. The only challenge today was: I grabbed the wrong sweat pants, the ones with no string, and I had trouble keeping my pants up.
WTG! Doh about the pants! I have that problem with some tank tops of mine, straps always sliding down. Run, run, pull up…run run pull…
I should have been finishing up week 8, except I came down with a cold (again) on W8D2. I haven’t been running in almost a week, it now feels kind of … odd.
No fun! One advantage to working from home is I now get very few colds. I think week 5 will be OK, but Week 6 may be a challenge. I guess we’ll see.
Get well soon!
Well, I’m a SAHM to 2 kids, but one of them is in daycare part time 
A friend said running was killing me, I laughed at her!
Today will be the last day of week 5. I had to shift my schedule a little this week.
It is cold, it is rainy and I don’t think it will get any better. I am now just waiting for the light, so I can go out. I confess, I’m not looking forward to it.
Hope your first long run went well! I’m hoping to start week 9 tonight. I thought I’d be done by now, but being sick a few times means I’ll be running when the inlaws are in town. At least I’ll have plenty of hands to watch the kids on the 30 min runs!
OK, so I did a mix of Week 5 Day 3 and Week 6 Day 1 (close to week 6 actually). In the training that I do (similar to, but different from Couch25K) weeks 3,4,5 are very similar and I needed a little challenge. The book makes a big fuss about not trying to jump ahead, and I do understand the concern, but I needed a little more today.
Some random observations:
I have to really concentrate on my pace to keep it down - else I run too quickly. I look forward to the day when either my unconscious keeps pace with the body, or the body is able to keep up with my unconscious so that I can focus on other things during my run. When I was walking I used to write code in my head, now I can’t.
Today was the first time when I felt I might actually someday enjoy running.
Psychologically, I find that if I focus on a spot just in front of my feet, my runs are easier. I guess if I don’t know where I am, I’m not constantly asking how much longer. I can see where there may be some negative consequences to this.
I guess I’m not doing too badly, all in all.
Week 6 down. Half way there. (Mine is a 13 week program.)
I am getting much closer to finding the right pace.
Absolutely no more problems with my feet or Achilles’ tendons.
A little problem with my left knee. I do have a brace for it because I’ve had some problems before, but I keep forgetting to dig it out.
My @##@ heart monitor may be broken - or is reporting wrong because my hands were cold. It was showing a rate of 60 when my own count was closer to 88. I love tech - when it works.
I have a massive fatigue wash over me after. I keep hoping there will come a day when it energizes me like I have read it does for others.
I’d given up when the weather started turning (and really when it started getting dark too early to fit it in). But we bought a treadmill and its in the basement. Brainiac4 has kept it up, I’m getting back in but slowly.
I find it harder to motivate myself now that the evenings are darker, colder and wetter. But so far I’m sticking with it. I’m now up to 7k three times a week and will be attempting 8.5k at the weekend.
I still have off days though. On Monday I had a great run. I felt amazing, I knew I was going to run it all no bother. But on Wednesday about half way through my legs felt so tired. I got about 1.5k from home and just had to take a walk break. My legs at this point felt like they were going to give out from under me. This also happened last Friday.
Does anyone have any tips on how to combat this? I’m not running fast at all so if I were to slow down any more I’d be walking. Or is this just something everyone experiences from time to time?
I think some days are just crappy days. If I didn’t get enough sleep before, had poor nutrition in the preceding day or so, didn’t get enough water, or hell, I don’t know, maybe if there were sunspots, my running is just off. Don’t sweat it; just write it off as a mediocre run and look forward to the next one.
Right now I am also having trouble getting outside to run. I am really not comfortable running in my neighborhood streets after dark, so I am restricted to running either at the indoor track at the gym (they have child care there) or Wed., Thurs., or Fri. mornings while my youngest is at preschool. Or Sunday, which is my regular “long run” day. I am still managing to get in 3 days per week of running, but I feel like too many of them have been at the indoor track. I am trying to get up to 5 miles by Thanksgiving for my Turkey Trot 5-mile race. Hopefully I can make 4 miles on Sunday. I have been doing 3 pretty regularly on the indoor track, but on Wednesday I ran at an outdoor trail and crapped out after 2 miles. (It has a really long quarter-mile incline that I looped through twice, and that second time it just killed me.)
Anyway, that’s where I’m at. Any time I start beating myself up too much about not being able to complete a 3-mile run or whatever, I just remind myself that back in June, I felt like dying after running for 60 seconds! So, I’ll get there.
As MsWhatsit said, some bad days you can trace to a specific cause and others are a mystery. Shrug it off, tomorrow’s another day.
MsWhatsit, you’ve taken that first step to being a real runner;), you’re giving advice on a message board.
I experienced that today. I’m not entirely certain as to what to do to combat it, I know that I was a bit dehydrated though - so that probably factored into it.
I completely agree with you here. I might get down on myself for not running as fast as I think I should, but then I remember that at one point, I couldn’t run for more then 60 seconds.
I finished the C25K program earlier this week. Still need to get around to signing up for a 5k. I was planning on going running this morning, but after doing quite a bit of walking in high heels last night my hips and calves would not move. Hopefully I’m feeling a bit better tomorrow I can go out start working on running 3 miles! (Right now I can do about 2.5 miles in about 30 mins).
If my continuing updates on my progress are inappropriate or annoying to you who are still in the midst of C25K, please let me know, because I don’t want to be “that guy.”
But, I just ran 5 miles! All at once! OMG!!
Wow good for you!
WTG! I don’t mind the updates
Week 7 completed. Sort of. I have modified my work out to better suit me. Mostly because I now have a running partner and I need to make sure that our runs do not tire her out too much.
Her name is KC, but since I call her fuzzy butt all the time, she comes to that as much as anything. She is a 3 year old Australian Cattle dog, also known as a blue heeler. I got her last Saturday. She is a bit pudgy, but for all that she keeps up with me. However, once we get home she flops down and sleeps most of the rest of the morning. (I know the feeling…)
Anyway, we now do just a little over 3K. We run 12.5 minutes, walk for about 3 and run back. Next week we will do 15/3/15. I will then start modifying it to try to get a 30 minute run. After that we will see. We run very slowly, doing just a smidgen under a mile in that 12.5 minutes.