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RuNanananaGraduate
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Haven't logged a run yet... but that's some pretty stiff competition: 25k and 1 run?? Really?

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RuNanananaGraduate

and how do you do 6 runs in one week when you're meant to rest a day between? Am I misreading/misunderstanding something?

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tortoisegirlGraduate in reply toRuNananana

I suspect that some of the graduates have been members for a while and are running much longer distances than some of us! I think some of the marathon plans ask you to run more often. Maybe that is what is going on?

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John_WGraduate in reply toRuNananana

Most of the members in the group are C25K graduates and have progressed sufficiently to either 'intermediate' or even 'advanced' status - there are very few 'beginners' in the group I think.

I still include rest days but can quite comfortably do a 30-40 minute treadmill session at 8am and then run again at lunchtime. So it's quite easy for me to compile 6-7 runs a week.

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TomasGraduate in reply toJohn_W

Hi John, do you do the morning + lunchtime thing because you don't have enough continuous time for a single run of the combined length, or do you find that it's more gentle on your body to split it?

I currently run 4 times per week, but want to increase to 6 over the next 5-6 months, and up until now my main concern has been whether one rest day per week is sufficient. But dual runs on the same day might be a good way around that issue.

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John_WGraduate in reply toTomas

Hi Tomas,

Time is an issue I guess, but it's just a routine I've gotten into. I don't do many *long* runs - never trained for a half or full marathon. My longest run to date is 18.5km and my knees needed 2 days rest after that. My runs are either treadmill intervals or outdoors 5-10km.

On Mondays and Fridays I do the morning treadmill session (hard!) and that's followed by a reasonably gentle C25K lunchtime run with our C25K beginners at work - so could be anything from a v slow Week 1 to a pacy 30 min Week 9 - but I treat each one as a recovery run. Wednesday lunchtime can sometimes be an outdoors 10k :-)

All depends on how your knees are I guess - but certainly 2 runs a day (one hard, one recovery) then a rest day is ok for me.

John

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TomasGraduate in reply toJohn_W

Makes perfect sense. Many thanks for the explanation john. I like the idea of two same-day runs and then a rest the next day. Good way to get the average up while still having regular recovery.

Very good with the C25K lunchtime runs at work, great way to spread the good habit.

My reason for the many runs is a marathon training where I want to end up with around 80 km per week, and with "only" 4 runs that would simply end up with everything being way to long.

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John_WGraduate in reply toTomas

I really enjoy being one of the run leaders for our C25K lunchtime club at work - we run the 9 week programme 3 times a year: January, May and September - certainly helps keep me ticking over and they work really well as recovery runs.

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Flossie22Graduate

Maybe they're "just driving in their car"! LOL 😂

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RealfoodieclubGraduate

I use smash run and follow a few runners from here. A lot of them graduated before me and some are marathon training. I don't feel it's competitive because I know their attitudes from here. I know if I sat in a room talking about running we would all talk about the same passion without pushing how much further and faster they run. They would share there knowledge and encourage me

Saying that some days I feel like I'm not a runner because I'm not as fast as some but i come on here and I remember I'm a runner because I love it full stop other people's distance and speed don't take away my passion

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AncientMumGraduate in reply toRealfoodieclub

Such a sensible reply RFC. It's all too easy to compare ourselves to others without knowing their age, fitness level and how long they've been running. x

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misswobbleGraduate

It will be Juicy Ju I bet 😊 She is now training for ultra ☺ She started off the same as the rest of us, straight off the couch, but is now two marathons in and training for an upcoming one. Hence the mileage.

It just proves what C25k can do. I think quite a few here have done marathons ☺

You can't do high mileages at first. it's done very gradually.

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RuNanananaGraduate

I was just blown away/impressed & looking forward to what this program can do for me!! Very cool to think. Pretty downright amazing.... wtg, Juicy Ju, too!

Which group is it on Strava? I know I saw a lonk on here somewhere but can't find it now!

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