Anyone doing/done couch 2 5k?

[mrsp14]

I may have a different version to you guys as mine doesnt talk, it just beeps between walk and run. Where did you get yours from? Mine is the C25K Lite phone app by Guy Hoffman. Week 2 on this one is 5 mins warm up, 90 seconds run (slow jog in my case!) 90 seconds walk, repeating for 20 mins then 5 mins cool down - is it the same as yours?

I need to lose 7 stone to get comfortably into my healthy BMI so I have a very long way to go yet but am just about managing to keep up with it on week 2 albeit i look like a beetroot afterwards.

I am doing it every other day with fitness games (eg Just Dance and Zumba on the Wii and PS3) on the non running days, this gives my battered knees and ankles a bit of time to recover! I find if I try to run every day I just feel exhausted and achey, this way I actually feel more energised every day.

I'm using the NHS podcast. Sounds like its the same tho. I've missed the last 5 days cos both kiddies have been ill hoping to get out again this weekend tho.

 

[ZoMo]

I will have a look for the NHS podcast. My feet are permanently killing me now. After nearly completing week 3 (one more to go), the soles of my feet feel like two big bruises!!! I have put insoles in my trainers but they havent made much of a difference other than strangely I have been getting electric shocks off the treadmill since doing this!

My baby has been ill too, she has some viral infection, puke and diarrhoea everywhere. Yuk. Cant even take her out for a good buggy walk for some fresh air as it is chuffing freezing out there!!!!!

 

[ZoMo]

Just started week 4. F*ck me that's hard. Managed all the way to the last 5 min run and then nearly died of exhaustion. I put in an extra minute walk before starting the final run then had to break the run into 2.5 mins, walk, 1.5 mins, walk and 1 min. It took me 36 minutes with the cool down and it was 2.15 miles. I do think its a very severe step up from week 3. Will keep plugging away at it. I was glad of the snow outside to stand in afterwards to cool off!

 

[Fallen8905]

Hi

I am thinking about doing this on the nhs podcast she talks to you so how do you listen to music at the same time lol....I need my music!!!

 

[Try Rocking]

On mine you could still listen to music, it would just fade out the music so he/she could talk and then the music would come back on

 

[Fallen8905]

Yay! Definitely going to give it a go! Just need to get running trainers lol

 

[mrsp14]

Most of them let you listen to your own music... i would never get through without music!!

Anyway...quick update...since posting this at the beginning of January i'm now on....week 2 day 1!!!

It was just one thing after the other... we're in the middle of a move overseas... waiting for visas so have been staying with family whilst waiting for visas. It just got ridiculous trying to find the time to go out for a run.Anyay we've been in a hotel for the last two weeks so ive been using the gym. Actually have found it easier on a treadmill than in the great outdoors... but then im wondering if this is because the only times ive been outside are in tehsnow so the air is cold which hurts the lungs even without running!!
Anyway... (lots of anyways!!) we fly to Saudi on Monday... land turesday am... so im gonna be realisitc and aim to go out wednesday evening... after dark for two reasons...1)dont want the new neighbours to witness the horendousness that is me running and 2) i suspect that after freezing cold UK i'll find it way to hot to run during the day over there so the evenings will be cooler

 

[ZoMo]

Well I got to Week 4 then got flu and was bed ridden for 4 days! 3 weeks on and I am still bunged up and have a chest full of stuff to cough up so I will be back to square one by the time I can get going again.

 

[Loui1001]

I did it last year and loved it, I stupidly got out of the habit when I went back to work after maternity leave....... So I'm starting again this week. It's definitely manageable, just need to get used to aching legs and purple face again!

 

[Tinylo]

I'm doing this too, I start week 5 tomorrow and blimey its a big jump from 5 mins to 7 mins.......I might have to try 6 mins for a week and then progress to 7 mins.

But to be fair i didn't think I'd get to 5mins when I started so I guess it's good to push things along.

I do feel fab afterwards and I've had a bit of me time too

 

[Dinah93]

I started a few weeks ago then got a horrific cold and cough that's dragged on for two weeks now, hoping to be able to restart next week.

 

[gumb69]

I am training for a triathalonand was running the 5k after 4 weeks, but it was really really tough. i only managed to run once a week as i had to be on the exercise bike twice a wekk doing 18k each time.
I got the flu and was bed ridden for 3 days am still on antibiotics and nowhere near ready to run again!!! So frustrating. Triathalon in may and it's slipping away !!! arrrgh
best of luck running ladies. YOU CAN DO IT, YOU ARE A MUMMY X

 

[threebirds]

Ive just started