The aim of the Quest is to help you find a focus or goal that you would like to achieve by the end of the Quest period.
The Quest will run to the end of April, with weekly Monday update posts throughout.
You can join at any point during that time.
I ask that you are a C25K Graduate before joining the Quest. The reason for this is that pre-graduation your week is very much structured according to the C25K programme, and I wouldn't want the Quest to interfere with that.
Most popular goals are:
★ To run three times a week
★ To slowly increase distance
★ To train for a specific race
★ To add Stretch and Strength exercises to your weekly routine
This is a personal challenge, so it's completely up to you! If you want to join, all you have to do is comment below with something like:
I would like to join the Quest, or, count me in! I want to ..............
Every week of April I will put up a new post and we can all chat about how we are doing. It’s going to be awesome!!! 😃
At the end of the Quest, there will be a certificate for you to download and keep!!
Wishing you a happy, healthy, and totally awesome month with lots of running 💥
Millsie-J, Realfoodieclub, Oldfloss, and Roseabi xxx
After a bumpy start with sinusitis, I did 3 runs and 2 core strength classes last week. I have adapted the classes (with the help of my lovely teacher) so that I am not putting too much pressure on my knees. I've also started to take a glucosamine supplement for said knees. More of the same this week but I want to kick out the voices in my head that say "you'll never make it", "you need to stop as it's too difficult" etc. etc. Going to try the Nike Run Club guided runs just as soon as I can find my earphones.... Happy questing VRBs.
I want to run 3 times a week and run continuously for 5k, no matter how long it takes. I can do it, but never on my park run days. At the park run I run and walk. No shame I know, but it annoys me that I can run a full 5k on other days but not park run days!!
This may well be why you are running out of steam. Try not to think about being last (you won't!), relax and keep a slow and steady pace. Save yourself for a sprint finish!
Well my Quest has come on in leaps and bounds out of nowhere! I’ve found a “turn of speed” all of a sudden (it’s all relative - actual gazelles need never fear!) I’ve run sub 36 for all my 5ks of late and popped in a couple of sub 35’s too! Sub 35 was a distant goal! Today I ran 7k and knocked nearly 10 minutes off my last 7k over the same route. How?
So my updated Quest is to work more on hills. I can chug up them, but the speed reduction is perceptible! I’ll do a woodland trail run on Thursday where there are some hideous hills. Let’s see what happens! 😳 I even puff walking up the blighters! 😩
Hi guys !! Yes , all going well with the training sessions and strengthening
routine at the moment !! A little tired after our first 10K yesterday but thats to be expected ,and tomorrow being another rest day we expect to run a 5K on wednesday !! At the moment we are trying to think of some routes that include a hill or two but we have no plans for actually including them in our present schedule , they,ll still be there when we ARE ready for them !!!
I managed 2 knee strengthening sessions last week! Managed my 3 runs including a long run of 14.5k my longest to date. I have a new respect for 10 mile, HM and FM runners
I'm very happy with progress, if feeling properly cream crackered at the mo. After spending half an hour sitting in Dexy5 's car at the start of the Billy Trail last Wednesday, waiting for the Hayling hailing to stop (it didn't ), I got myself to the gym later in the day and managed to run the middle k of 3 on the dreadmill at a steady 13kph (4'36" pace). So that was one of my monthly targets ticked off in the first week .
Then today, exploring Southampton Common with Dexy ahead of some Parkrun tourism planned for Saturday, we did 5k together in an easy 38 mins to which I added another 7 in 42, to knock off my second target , stretching my long run out to 12k.
I'm now going to be sensible, with only Saturday's Parkrun and some short and gentle stuff before I go for target 3, a sub-60 10k in the St George's Day run at Portsmouth Lakeside a fortnight tomorrow. Onward and upward!!
After my Physio visit today, I need to amend my Quest. I will continue with my HM plan in hopes to reach my HM by the end of the month but found I have joined the ranks of a weak (medial) gluteal runner 😩. So I will be working very hard to get 2 strength training sessions in focusing on squats (with some tweaks to improve my form), deadlifts, lunges, clamshells, etc. She's going to send me some exercises to help change things up and keep interesting. I showed her the stretches I had been doing for my piriformis which she thinks are good, and she showed me another hamstring stretch to add in. I have really let my strength training fall by the wayside and find I gravitate away from those I dislike (like lunges) because I find them hard. Time to get buns of steel 😂
My quest is on track, I’ve completed the 5k and 5.5k runs on week 1 of Ju Ju’s Magic plan only the 2.5k to run tonight. Then a couple of days rest before starting wrk 2. I think that’s going to be harder as I have a week off from work due to it being the kids Easter holidays, so fitting in runs around days out is going to be tricky. Although I’m enjoying a little structure again after having 4 months of “free” running.
I didn’t do very well in my quest last week due to niggles, but I did make it to parkrun even though I didn’t go full pelt. But I did manage an 8.2k yesterday including a 500m walk after 5k. Tomorrow I’ll do a gentle jogette in new shoes and hope that will help. Physio appointment on Friday. It’s still a few weeks until our St George’s Day Run so I’m still hoping to do that 10k.
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), I got myself to the gym later in the day and managed to run the middle k of 3 on the dreadmill at a steady 13kph (4'36" pace). So that was one of my monthly targets ticked off in the first week 
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