Exactly a year ago I started to use runkeeper to measure and record my runs. I was at the start of week 6 and had completed the first long run of the programme. I was just daring to believe that I might have a chance of turning into something approaching a proper runner.
Since then I have graduated and managed to keep up 2 or 3 runs most weeks - with a only a few lay offs for flu, holidays, or really bad weather. These days I usually do between 5 and 6k a time. Longest run has been 8k but I am not fast - still taking about 39 minutes to cover 5k. I even describe myself as a runner occasionally!
I did my final run on Sunday along the front at Goodrington in Devon on a beautiful autumn evening. Imagine how chuffed I am that in that year since I started recording my runs I have covered 500k! In fact 500.6k to be exact!
I am so delighted and proud of myself. What a truly fab programme this is and what wonderful running buddies I have made along the way.
What distance shall I aim for next year? I'm thinking 600k might be doable!
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Not so much. I had lost 3 stone in the year before and it has definitely helped me to keep it off. Can see a big change in my shape and a sales lady complimented me on my 'beautifully toned' legs recently - music to the ears of this 60 year old!
This is so pleasing to hear!!!! I have logged around the same as you since January -- I also would never have believed it when I first started out on C25K.
Thanks. Strangely, I feel absolutely confident that I can. Such a difference from when I started the programme and didn't tell anyone for the first three weeks in case I couldn't do it.....
That is truly fantastic - that is like running from Liverpool to Poole - which means you have saved about £312 on rail-fare (1st class - running is always like travelling first class) Over 10 years yo will have run to New York (in spite of all the water). The real achievement of course is not the fantastic distance but the fact that you have kept this up regularly - you get my Star Award of the Day.
Wow, that is a wonderful achievement! Great distance, and great spirit for sticking to it for a year now. You deserve to be proud of yourself. Well done!
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