I've just finished week 4. I'm overweight and pretty unfit - I was a proper couch potato before this. It took me 3 weeks to do wk 1, two weeks to do wk 2 but now I'm on track and doing the plan week by week. I run slow - really slow. I can walk faster and my run is more of a shuffle.
I've signed up to do a 5k in October and following this plan I am confident I will be able to do it.
But this morning a friend (the person who inspired me to run. This time last year she was at the same point I am now) has asked me to do the Run to the Beat around Wembley on Sept 13.
But it's a 10k. Is that aiming too high at this point in my running journey? She and another friend will be doing it with me - they both already run 10ks.
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I've signed up for a 10km in August. I almost completed C25K in November then circumstances meant I couldn't complete it, finally did my grad run in January I think and been struggling to run regularly since then. I'm starting C25K again halfway through (now the challenge is to get up early before work to fit running in!)... I think 10km is achievable but it does require commitment
You can do it... believe in yourself! Commit to completing it and enjoy!
Good for you. You've committed so you'll do it (perhaps we should all be committed?). Once you've graduated just keep running regularly. 3 times a week is good. You can then follow one of the B210K (Bridge to 10K) programmes or just try slowly increasing one run a week by half a k or so.
If you've managed to reach 7.5 km before the event, you'll finish a 10K event running on willpower alone for the last two and a half km. The other way of thinking about it is that it isn't a 10K. It's just a 5K followed by another 5K where the rest day between is slightly less than a day...
Even if you have to walk some parts, not a problem! In fact, having a specific target in mind will encourage you just that little more to get out and train (well, it does for me). My plan is: 10k end of May, 15k in August, Great South Run in October - like to have something to focus on!
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