Oh dear! Not my greatest idea.

[adisgirl99]

Last night I am at college, and I am telling a fellow student why I need to finish the bag of Éclairs on my desk

I tell her that I am starting the C25K , a nine week programme to get me slim and sexy and that I am running the RFL, therefore I will no longer be eating junk whilst sat pretending to know about Quadratic Equations!

A third fellow student asks me which race I am doing, I reply "Lister Park". She says "oh, the same as me on the 9th of June?"

"Yes", I reply, beaming with pride.

Till someone else says, "but the C25K is 9 weeks and RFL is in 6 weeks".

Fook. Not my best mathematical moment.

So I got home and thought panic not, I will just have to stagger it so I run a night then rest a night; the MP3 lady won't know.

But even that doesn't work.

I would still be a good few runs shy of my W9R3 graduation when I run RFL.

So, it appears I will be walking/jogging the RFL on the dreaded 6th week of my C25K plan and I fear will look like attilla the hun crossing the line.

Oh well, Operation Arseshift is well and truly going to be fun!

Col xx

[BettyJane Graduate]

All is not lost, by week 6 you should be running for 25mins. On Race day you'll get caught up in the hype of it all and will keep going, and so what if you do have to have a couple of walking breaks, you'll still be out there.

[alcopop Graduate]

Doh!

well there is time to get there, as said, by week 6 you should be ok. At least the marathon was last week

Good luck with the program and keep us all informed

[greenlegs Graduate]

Chill! Race for Life is great anyway - loads of people walk it or walk/run, so there's no problem whatever in not running all of it. Even if it was in week 9, and you'd got up to running for 30 minutes, your pace might not take you to 5k by then (I could only do 3k in 30 minutes when I graduated, and average seems to be about 4k). Lots of people take a few more weeks to build up to running a full 5k.

But you WILL be able to run at least half of it - and quite possibly as the others say, you may well get caught up in the excitement and do the whole lot!

Don't stress about it (or you'll start eating even more eclairs!). You've started now, so you're going to finish - and you will feel so much healthier for it!