Completed my W6 R3 yesterday on an actual road whilst staying with my daughter in Northumberland! It was much easier to keep a steady sustainable pace on smooth tarmac. In fact I felt so good after 25 minutes running that I just kept going through the 5 minute cool down and had to run on past the house! I had completed this particular road run in W2 and found it hard going, especially on the gradients. This time I managed to get about twice as far in the time. Couch25K is brilliant - the sense of achievement to go from gasping through 60 seconds of running to running comfortably for 30 minutes in just 6 weeks is thrilling! And no, I'm not doing anything like 5K, but who cares - I can run without stopping. Hope this encourages all of you who are on the earlier weeks in the programme. And a big thank you to those ahead of me & the graduates & the mentors - your posts have been helpful and inspiring. Good luck, everyone.
Road Running Revelation!: Completed my W6 R... - Couch to 5K
Road Running Revelation!
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Congrats on the joy of discovering road running - much more fun than "indoors" in my humble opinion. But remember to not push yourself too far too fast - the programme is excellent - but it is very easy to pick up an injury and you'll end on in the "ic" when you want to be running.
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Go you! Coincidentally also in Northumberland, Bamburgh on hol, completed wk 9 run 1 last night, a mixture of pavement, beach, golf club (really) and most unfortunately, a ruddy great hill.
Glad you are also enjoying this stunning county, feel so lucky to be able to do c25k, and fingers crossed, to graduate here would be amazing!
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Totally with you. It's just simply amazing.
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I couldn't agree more with you, GrannyO, this programme is truly transformative! I'm really glad that you had such a fab run - it sounds as though you're ready to power through the final three weeks! Great work! 😊