My 10 year old just kicked my butt running...

[Joolez]

Tomorrow I'm going to do the dreaded w5r3 and have been so pleased with my progress on this programme, though am admittedly quite worried about the 20 mins but everyone's posts on here has given me hope that I will be able to do it...

Yesterday I managed to persuade my brand new 10 year old (her birthday was on Monday) to join me on the c25k programme because teaching her to run for 30 minutes at the age of 10 would be the greatest gift I could give her as it will set her up to enjoy running for life. I remember having to do a 1 mile walk run at the age of 12 and it absolutely killing me and struggling through cross country runs at school - bleurgh.

So I went out with her for w1r1 yesterday, expecting to have to slow down my pace so she could keep up. Imagine my surprise when she raced on ahead of me at her 'jogging' pace that meant that each 60 second section for her was actually 90 seconds for me as I raced to catch up with her.

Still, I suppose I should be grateful that she loved the running so much and am looking forward to doing park runs with her soon.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

The clue to this phenomena??? She is 10

Having spent many years chasing small miscreants of aged 5 to 11 on the school yard..... I can honestly say, we have no chance Slow down... ? At the end of a school day, I might be wilting, were my children..never!

Well done you though. What a great birthday gift for your daughter; starting a great habit for her. Bazza1234 has posted about youngsters running on Park Runs etc, in his part of the world, and some of their achievements are amazing!

Many happy returns to your daughter and many happy return runs to both of you

[Joolez Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Thanks Oldfloss

[RainbowC Graduate]

My girls at a similar age found the early weeks similarly easy - but once it got to running for five minutes at a time, I was quicker than them as they just didn't have any stamina to keep going! If she's keen, definitely do keep running with her - I absolutely agree it's such a gift to give!

Happy running!

[Joolez Graduate in reply to RainbowC]

Thanks RainbowC ... did you follow each week as per the podcasts, because I thought maybe we should move on to w2 or even w3 because she was so good

[RainbowC Graduate in reply to Joolez]

I've not managed to keep them running with me regularly at all. We went through the podcasts together to start with though, but that was because I was starting again at the time. If she found it that easy, I'd maybe skip to week 2 and do one or two of them, then move on to week 3 - depending on just how fit she is and how long she can manage comfortably. Basically, if she can complete the run comfortably, I'd probably move on to the next - no point repeating it if she's just going to feel bored and decide this is to easy! But I'd go through them in order, rather than skipping ahead, to try and avoid inadvertantly landing on one which is too hard and will be disappointing for her.

Does that make any sense at all?!

[Joolez Graduate in reply to RainbowC]

Perfect, thanks

[McFitty Graduate]

Aren't kids just amazing? It is the stamina that needs the 'learning' though. At that age the manic speed comes naturally to most of them😁

Good luck for tomorrow. Slow and steady. You'll be fine 😊

[davelinks Graduate]

Plenty of youngsters at my Parkrun whizzing along, Once I raced one to the finish, we tied!😁

My 6 year old G nephew does Junior Parkrun, he got a PB a few weeks back, he was so chuffed!😊