for all the NON GRADUATES

[mafee]

Hello everyone like me. I look at all the posts from Graduates and think that I will never be one. However, there are 5,000 of them and 60,000 of us so we are in the majority HA HA ( I might have to delete this post if I ever graduate) Keep Going!

[Nottooold Graduate]

I thought so as well 😏 but, incredibly, tomorrow I will make my graduation run, so I should move from 60000 to 5000 (that will become 59999/5001!)

You’ll surely do the same in Jan/Feb.

[mafee Graduate in reply to Nottooold]

strictly speaking you will make the numbers go from 5 519 to 5 520 and will be part of the group that goes down from 60 140 to 60 139 but hey you will still be the elite! well done for when you get there

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Couch to 5k was devised by Josh Clark in 1996.

The NHS C25K programme is just one variation of the training plan, and the number of graduates you quote is only those who registered their graduation on this site..........countless thousands, if not millions, worldwide, have changed their lives irrevocably by graduating from C25K without coming anywhere near this community.

So while there are more non graduates of the plan than graduates, across the world, the proportion grows daily, well in excess of the stats quoted on this forum............so when you graduate (not if) you will be joining an international family, that is much larger than you suspect.

Keep running, keep smiling.

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

I had serious reasons for believing I’d never complete week one, so unfit was I ! It took nine weeks of repeats, but I did it. Each new run has looked impossible, but with perseverance and the repeat function, I’m learning that my body can cope with anything, if I just take it slow and steady. I will graduate. It may take until 2020, but I will do it. And so will you x

[ItstheMarchHare Graduate]

Lol, I graduated recently but only by jogging so slowly that I got overtaken by people walking. I’ve now gone back to week 1 to do it all again, but quicker. W1R1 done today and I feel exhilarated (as opposed to shocked and quite queasy which is how I felt the first time).