Post Graduation

[garyc]

Only 4 more runs to go. My next run is going to be a little bit alien to me as I'll be in Manchester and won't have a clue where I'm going!

Does everyone tend to aim to increase there distance after C25K? I'm not much of a runner but I don't want to lose what I've built. I was thinking, once completing week 9 and working on improving my 5k time, of dropping my 5k runs to once or twice a week and using the freed up time to focus on other exercise activities and new challenges. Has anyone else done this or is it all about the running post-c25k?

[melly4012 Graduate]

I think that sounds like a lovely idea. Just go slow and steady with gradual increases. If you want some new fitness goals then that sounds good too!

Enjoy your new running location - running tourism is just the best.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Very well done.. so close now

After Graduation.. you get to choose...it is your running path and you do it your way!

Folk do, what they want.. many of us just ran, after Graduation, no particular distance or speed or time.. just ran because we could

Then. some move on to building up to 10K, some try to go for faster... or further.. some just enjoy running as they are and seeing what happens many, like me used the C25K podcasts which are great.. I know Speed helped my ...errr.... speed.. and Stamina gave me.. err... stamina.. I still use them as and when.

Other exercise: Well, again, as you please.. I walk, and swim and cycle and do yoga..usually on rest days but I am retired, with time to do the things I enjoy ...

You fit it around your life and you plan it how it works for you... Two runs a week, if that is what suits.. I still run three times.. Sunday, Tuesday and Friday.. where possible.. but that is my way

If possible, keep posting anyway.. great motivation and support continues after Graduation on the Bridge to 10 K forum

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

PS

If you get lost, you could shout for poppypug , you may find her running around an Aldi car park x

[melly4012 Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Now poppypug running around an Aldi car park is a story I would like to hear...

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to melly4012]

It was, if I remember, as many of have done,to get the distance in and to finish a run.. Me? I usually end up running up and down line of cars waiting at the village rail barrier..

I hope our wonderful poppypug forgives me for telling folk this, I just always remember it from when I was graduating... it always makes me smile..

[poppypug Graduate in reply to melly4012]

Tee Hee , I was doing a long run one weekend and had arranged to meet my Hubby at the end at Aldi or Asda can't remember which one , to do our weekly shop.

When I got there I still had a bit to go , so he was getting the trolley and I ran past shouting "I'm not done ! " So I just ran around the car park until I finished my distance . I am trying Waitrose next week ! xxx

[melly4012 Graduate in reply to poppypug]

Haha I love those crazy moments we have looking barmy going in circles while trying to finish a run! Is Asdarun the new parkrun?!

[poppypug Graduate in reply to melly4012]

Yup , it will definitely catch on ! xxx

[poppypug Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Ha ha ! That's just at weekends Floss , weekdays it's normally the Asda one

Give us a shout if you get lost Gary xxx

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to poppypug]

Oops.. thought it was Aldi.. knew it began with A.. ( See, you can tell I was a teacher :)) xx

[Irishprincess Graduate]

I didn't start to increase distance for over a year after I graduated simply because I was doing other things (weights, cycling, Pilates, rowing mostly) and I didn't see the need but I always ran three times a week because it suited me.

The world is your oyster after you graduate, that's the fun of this fitness lark and running twice a week is fine if that's what you decide to do. Good luck with your last few runs and really you're spoiled for choice about what to do afterwards.