Hello team, last night was my first consolidation run and I’d downloaded Laura’s podcasts to help me... One minute of running later and off it was jolly well switched! No way were my little fat legs going to meet that bpm (or my elderly ears enjoy it tbh) I plugged into my own tunes instead but am planning to go without music and coaching anyway. Am just concerned about disrupting established routines too much.
The run was great and with some extra metres tacked on I really felt like a runner 
If you are talking about the C25K + podcasts ? this is why we advise folk to do a couple of weeks of consolidation runs first...( The new running legs have only just got going) .. short routes, loads of 30 minute runs. longer routes etc and different routes too. The podcasts are challenging and teach us a lot about the discipline in our running. Pace, speed and stamina. Done too soon, they are not what we need... done later they are great.
Many of us use them still, solo or within other runs. I use Speed if I am short on time or within a longer run... and a couple of runs of Stamina get me over 10 K
Do em! They’re brill. Tough but they bring your running on. A test for those new shoes 💪👍😃👟🏃♂️ Yeah the music’s strange but it fits the task
Yeh, those; I used Stepping Stone because I thought it would be - well, a stepping stone! I thought it was designed to help consolidation but seems I misunderstood the whole thing! As Sqkr says, I can't have that music in my lugholes so will continue as I did last night. The hills around here affect bpm too. The lovely thing is that the pat 9 weeks have been fabulous and have given me an understanding of various routes, times, distance, difficulty etc so I can just trot round and add bits on when appropriate. I want to work up to 10k and would NEVER have said that without C25K!
I don't know if you use a running watch at all, but you can always program in the basic structure of each podcast (I made a stepping stone one, for example) which means you get the benefit of the training without the aural assault. 🙃
The music is horrific. I genuinely can't have it anywhere near my ears 😂 Lots of people swear by those c25k+ podcasts though, so worth persevering if you can!
The trick is to stop thinking of the audio input as 'music' but as tool, a means to an end.
The end of sanity.
A lot of learning to run involves getting over hurdles and the hurdles are often oneself...
I kvetsched for ages before C25K about listening to anything whilst out, birdsong, safety, blah, blah. I'm genuinely noise sensitive (biggest swimming problem is the noise when I breathe out, aaarrrggghhh)... and these days I hardly ever run with audio input other than the croissant obsessed voice on Runkeeper marking the 5 minutes and kilometres.
The unexpected bonus for me from using the podcasts is being better able to appreciate the music my precious firstborn produces.
[That said, running itself is a tool for health and wellbeing... and there isn't one way to do any of it]
Each to their own, of course. But I don't consider those podcasts a hurdle, they're a twenty foot brick wall 🤣 I tried them and didn't get on with them on many levels, but the music was the final straw. I've honestly never heard the like. It's like an elderly robot trying to make music it thinks young people might like, and failing abysmally. Music for people who've never heard music before. It's so dated, so weirdly derivative, and when the whale noise and vocal samples kick in I just can't take it. It made me laugh out loud on occasions, and cringe on others. There's just no way they're coming anywhere near me, I can't cope. It's enough to put me off running ever again. But luckily there are ways around it if people think the podcast structures might be beneficial to them, not least simply programming in the stages to a Garmin workout.
I'll not try to sell you one of my son's albums then!
Oh I love electronic music. Don't get me wrong there, I listen to a lot of it, especially running. My partner is modular synth musician and it's a huge part of my job too. It's that particular music. It's beyond help. 🤯
Aha, understood!
I know it's just me, they're really popular podcasts and clearly beneficial too. I guess everyone has a fingers down a blackboard response to something, and I think I found my trigger 😂
A great thread - thank you to everyone for making me laugh! SQKR we need to kvetch over coffee! I went out phone-free this morning and have nailed just over 5km for the first time in about a hundred years. We won't say how long it took as it included several poo stops (the dog's) and a swim (also the dog's!) but man do I feel good. I wouldn't have done it without all the encouragement and wise words on this site.
I'm recommending couch to 5k to everyone and even my mum's expressed an interest (I daren't tell her she'd need a smart phone :-))
Technology fail Tuesday! 🤗🏃🏼♀️🦄
Yet another tech fail ....
10k epic fail
Laura's stamina podcast. Tough!? 😱
Epic fail 😩
