Week 5 & Parkrun??

[__fattofit]

It’s taken me a while but I’m starting my week 5 run 1 today and I am finally excited about this whole running thing! 😱😂 I’m also considering signing up for my local parkrun but I was just wondering whether you’d recommend completing couch to 5k before doing this?

Time to sweat 💦

[Wilson89 Graduate]

Hi Fattofit,

I graduated yesterday and decided to do this with a 5k park run (it was tough but I did it none stop). It was a great way to graduate 5k and I’m glad I saved the experience until my last day when I know that I can run the whole way around none stop.

The problem you may have is that I have mental markers on my standard run so I know when I’ve passed a place that I struggled to get to on a previous run, or even the week before. As I don’t use the park where I did my park run those mental markers were gone (which took away some little internal mental congratulations).

Ultimately if you try and skip ahead that far you might end up quitting the program all together. It really steps up from week 5 so if you’re finding week 5 easy just wait as the app is building distance in to your legs.

By all means you can walk a park run so if you want to go and complete one of your week 6 runs on a park run you could. But personally I’d save it for your graduation run! And make is special.

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[Madge50 Graduate]

Parkrun is for everyone, you can walk, run, skip, whatever you want. Lots of people use parkrun as one of their weekly runs on the programme following the podcast then walk the rest.

All parkrun is there to do is to form a regular habit of exercise with you, there are no rules about joining.

If you’re not sure, maybe go and watch or volunteer one week, parkrun only exists because of volunteers, it’s a great, supportive, inclusive community.

It is not a race, the biggest mistake newbies make is thinking they have to run all the way and go fast, that’s their own misconception, there are a whole variety of people at parkrun, club runners who complete it in under 15 minutes, walkers who take an hour, people recovering from illness/injury, people who do walk run intervals, etc, etc., it’s for everyone.

I hope you give it a go, the main thing is to register on the main parkrun website to get your barcode, then you’re off on a whole new adventure! 😎

Mx