Spring into Action Quest, final week. What’s occurring runners? 😎

[Millsie-J]

Hello and welcome to week four of this month’s Quest. Roll up folks, it’s our Spring into Action Quest to help us keep on progressing👍🏼🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻

Please feel free to join in if you have graduated. We will be running these Quests every month, updating weekly, so don’t worry you can join in any time after Graduation, it doesn’t matter when it is even if it is just for the last week.

Also please join if you have graduated and are on the IC, We have found reading and supporting other runners when we are on the IC helps to keep motivation up and helps to still feel part of this community so if you are on the IC put your name down, we will support you all they way back to your first run.

Here is the explanation of what the Quest is.

What the quest is:-

The quest last for a calendar month

You can join any time within that time.

The main aim of the quest is to help you find a focus or goal that you would like to achieve by the end of the Quest period.

We ask that you are a graduate . The main reason we ask this is that while you are doing the program your plan is very structured, so we wouldn't want the quest to interfere with that.

Most popular goals are:-

To run three times a week

To slowly increase distance

To train for a specific race

To add In Stretch and strength exercises

As you can see they are personal to yourself and it's totally your own choice.

Every week I will pin a new post where all the members of the quest can talk about how things are going.

My advise to you is to make your goals achievable as it is very easy to get discouraged if you aim too high. It is better to aim a little less and feel great at the end of the Quest and add some more in for the next Quest. Motivation is at its best when you feel a sense of achievement through something you are trying to do.

Please don’t forget that all the forums are here for your benefit. They are set up to help with questions and queries as your progress on your running journey. Feel free to join any or all. You will find different levels of help on each forum, so well worth a look around.

We have the Bridge to 10km - this forum is for runners who need a little bit more technical advise than is offered on the C25K.

healthunlocked.com/bridgeto10k

We have the Marathon Running and Race support.

Again this is another step up in the type of advise that is offered and it is there if you should ever need it.

healthunlocked.com/marathon...

We have the Strength and Flex forum, which is set up to help you with the NHS stretches and Strength workouts. Squats, lunges and the like are all in these programs.

healthunlocked.com/strength...

We also have the Active 10 which used to be called walking for health. It is a great forum for sharing your walks on your days off or if you are on the Injury Couch.

healthunlocked.com/active10

Please feel free to have a look round all the forums but also keep in mind we need your help for new runners so you can support and encourage them on the C25K forum as they learn to run, so they can come and join us on these Quests once they have graduated.

Happy running to you all

I can’t wait to see what your Quests are going to be!

Millsie-J, Realfoodieclub, Oldfloss and Roseabi. X.

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[Julia187 Graduate]

Having graduated yesterday my week will be 3 x consolidation runs, like most people I'm short of the 5k so one of those runs will be to hit 5k

[Millsie-J Graduate in reply to Julia187]

Good luck Julia

[PollyannaG in reply to Julia187]

Me too - graduated doing 4.32 km so would like to actually get to 5 km too 👍😃

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

So far so good... 2 parkruns down and looking great for Saturday... my running plan did the decent thing and adapted to give me a 3 miler again this week!

[Millsie-J Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Wowser! Result there with the plan. Good luck UFNM

[GoogleMe Graduate]

My Quest has defined morphed. For the last week no more swimming (it's possible I'll get one or two in over the final days of the month next week but that would amount to half my original target at most), no running (similar) My short yoga break is over and provided I don't miss more than one day, I should achieve my goal for the month - I've been doing lots of online classes.

It's been a very strange month.

[Millsie-J Graduate in reply to GoogleMe]

For a strange month you have done great GoogleMe. Hope nect month starts to even out for you.

[GoogleMe Graduate in reply to Millsie-J]

Grand finale of a 12.33km run today.

[Millsie-J Graduate in reply to GoogleMe]

Whoop whoop, great run G🏃🏻‍♀️

[Aakk Graduate]

Just graduated, now want to work on speed. Aiming to join a parkrun sometime over the summer. Nearest one is 1.5hr ferry away, and it's a bit undulating. Will make a plan and join next month's quest when I get back from my holiday.