Sometimes it's so tempting for me to say to friends, "Oh... you should take up running. Perhaps try the C25K. Like I did. It's great. You might like it. Blah. Blah. BLAH!"
However, I don't want to come across as an evangelist and I'll bite my tongue...
Anyone else feel like this?
Is it best to keep quiet, or should we be getting on our white horses and try to save the world?
I share the love as it was a lady at WW class that got me into it as I'd never heard of it. I passed it on to another lady there and she's now on week 8. I also told a lady at our jog group as she was trying to run for an hour with us having never run before and it's just too much, so I told her about C25k.
Yes - share it! Let's try and get as many people involved as possible ☺
I can't help myself at the moment and I'm probably really annoying, but just got to share the good news 
I'm doing the 12 week weight loss plan too, so won't shut up about that either - teehee.....
Share it.. with as many folk as you can.. the benefits are incredible. I shared it with my Nurse at my well-woman check..( she wanted to know why I was in such good condition for my age, yep... just a bit pleased with that! )... she has passed it on to over thirty patients... who are all now embarking on it! Brilliant!!!!
Did someone else get you into it? Did you stumble across it? Or, did you actively seek it out?
I'm a stumbler...
Daughter and son in law.... they started my journey. I finished it....
Having started it.. I just carry on now on my path, finding new routes and setting myself little fun challenges. I am running this journey for myself... but, I am a running bore.
I talk about it and spread the merits of it often!! The forum is brilliant too, because the way we help each other, discuss and discover is a delight,and we can talk about our running as much as we like
I stumbled across it online
Share it ☺what is there to lose ...
Moly..I'm totally with you here..lol.. can see your comparisons . now I have visions of Secan with his pixcies.. oldfloss with her rambling .. Ooh gosh Pam with her fuck it bucket and bridge to cross.. and irishprincess doing her thing.. I swear she's a white witch..
I can't help myself.. lol I really have to hold myself back in fear of offending friends x
I find myself wanting to talk about it all the time and having to make myself shut up, that's why I check this forum so often ,so I get it out of my system! I also think my family have heard enough and do not seem sufficiently impressed each time I run....to me its still unbelievable I can run 5k, but they seem to think I did that already so why do I need to tell them again!
Oh wow. That's it exactly.
I want to scream from the rooftops, but end up muttering under my breath, as I rub my sore knees and look online for MORE new shoes.
haha, that's the next thing, after all the posts on here are read, I have to scour amazon or sports direct for cheap(and not so cheap) running gear, Garmins, phone holders...the list goes on!
Totally get that! I can't believe I can run 5K so think everyone should be equally impressed but have done it 5 times now so I think the novelty has worn off for my family! This forum is a life-saver when all you want to do is talk running and share your achievements.
Me too! Exactly how I feel.
I'm with you on that! I'm obsessed by my ability to run. Something I never thought I could do and yes, my family are sufficiently bored now of hearing about me running 5K. Am devouring running magazines and this forum is great for getting it out of your system.
Haha I already tried to sell it to a coworker of mine! It might have worked...we'll have to see...
I've waxed lyrical to a few people but nobody has taken it up seriously.... yet. I had one taker who gave up for now but has embarked on an exercise programme and (hopefully) will take it up again. I was hoping to take my grandkids out (6 & 5) but I'm not really sure where to start with them.
Maybe it's subliminal on the podcasts!
'And thus said Laura during the 5 minute cool down, 'go out into the world, shout from the rooftops C25K is here. When you're asked how you've lost weight, look better, seem happier and less stressed, move quicker and have more confidence, declare this is the work of C25K and Laura told me I could do it'... 😂
I still can't believe I can run 5k and as for the shopping thing... don't go there. The moment I see anything running related I'm attracted like a bee to honey pot!
My family think I've been replaced by an alien being 👽
I also feel like I should shout it from the rooftops and I have become a total running bore. Luckily my daughter has been doing it with me so we can discuss how each run felt in miniscule detail, browse running goodies and sign up for future races together!
Tell everybody. Some will listen, most will not. Some will run, most will not.
If everybody knows the reason behind your glowing health, then some may reconsider at some point in the future.
I tell anyone who will listen, I love hearing about their progress as they go through it. I've had one negative reaction but I don't care, I'm so proud to be running after years of asthma struggles so long may the preaching continue
Share, definitely share!
I now have my son and his girlfriend with the program completed and my daughter regularly running 5k plus work colleagues and friends. I am a complete bore about it
C25k is a brilliant program and should be more widely appreciated. The only thing that comes close to its awesomeness is parkrun.
I just tell people that I've taken up running and how I love the programme. So far my husband has taken it up and a colleague and her mum. They asked about it and I directed them to the info. I feel happy when they tell me they're enjoying it too.
Was planning on starting a year before i actually did as I got a nasty respiratory problem in 2014, but last April ( 2015) was all systems go. Heard about it at my Rosemary Conley keep fit class. Never been able to run before.
Now I tell everyone who mentions I look trimmer about the c25k program. I expect them to know what it is though... lol ...and get some blank looks.
I avoid the problem by not having friends... XP
I'm so glad it's not just me. My friends and family must be so bored. They say there is no greater advocate for no smoking than an ex smoker, well i think there is no greater advocate for running that an ex non runner!!! and that was me. I was so sure running was not my thing but now I can't stop - running or talking about it!
Used to blah about it to anyone who would listen, I'm not quite so bad now but I do still tell people about it if the topic comes up although I think I've run out of people to bore with it now.
I was a stumbler re the programme. My sporty sister asked me to do a 5k fun run with her so I thought I had to at least make an effort to try and run it, then found the app but didn't find this wonderful forum until about half way through........
As far as I'm concerned shout it from the rooftops!
Couldn't think what to buy my daughter for her 39th birthday, but then a pretty running shirt and a book about running seemed to fit the bill. She downloaded C25K months ago but hasn't started.... she says she will now!
I certainly try & encourage. I never ever believed I could do this. NEVER. Can't help but try & get friends to try cos it genuinely is one of those " if I can do it, anyone can" moments.
Sometimes a person only needs the encouragement of another to tip the scales and get out there and do something. I set out to merely lose weight by changing my diet. I friend asked me if I had seen any of those 5K apps. I told her no. She said "they start you off jogging a little and walking a little so nearly anyone can do it". I downloaded the app and have lost ten pounds and am in week four now. I am addicted, stoked and loving it. Since I started, another friend of mine merely by hearing what I am doing has lost weight and started her exercises. Another friend, hearing of what I am doing has taken to the basketball court and is now regularly playing basketball to get back in shape. He says running is like watching the paint dry. :-\ I don't think so, but, I am a painter. So tell and encourage but just love them no matter.
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