All my life I've loved running. Pounding the tarmac, just me against myself and the elements. Oh the sense of freedom.
Popycock!! Always though running was dumb. Hated it as a kid and haven't done in since. At least until I started this program.
Yet here I am at the end of C25k. Of all of my runs to have a tech failure, this was the run. So despite pushing as hard as I could, my run wasnt recorded. So, just so I never forget Wk9 R2 and think of it as a stepping stone, the stats above are for that run instead.
I'm so grateful to my wife Snowgdss for helping me get through this. She has been battling with seasonal germs and a nasty foot injury (possibly a bone fracture) so shes been frustrated to not be able to get out and run. But she'll be back at it soon! You can do it babes x
I'm feeling stupidly pleased with myself. I was so embarrassed at how unfit and unhealthy I'd got and was really shocked at how much I struggled to complete Wk1 R1. So today, as I struggled up the hill for the final minute, it was nice to imagine you lot at the finish line waiting to cheer me on and my wife there with a big hug and glass of chilled champagne.
If you're just starting out on C25k, stick at it. The plan really does work and the people on this forum are amazing. You might struggle sometimes, you might have 'practice runs', but do carry on. Everybody is here to pick you up when you fall, and pat you on the back when you succeed.
So that's it. Job done and I can go back to the couch now 😆🍷. Only joking. This is part of my weekly routine now and long may it continue.
Happy running everybody and thank you!
Mig
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Thank you :-). Brian the hill knows he cant beat me now. So we just have a healthy respect for each other 😆. What comes next though.... is another glass of champagne 😆🍾🥂🍾🥂
Congratulations Mig! Brilliant achievement for a non runner 🤥!!! Your post is so inspirational for those just starting out and those of us somewhere in between. Hope Snowgdss makes full recovery and such a shame as you are both in this together. Enjoy that glass of bubbles and Christmas will be extra special this year 🥂🏆🎖Slàinte Mhath.
Thank you :-). I really hope I can help others cross the finish line in same way everybody here has encouraged me. I know you'll be graduating before too long too!
Yes definitely consolidation runs first! And I still hadn’t done even 5k when I graduated, so I’m building up but 5k is the furthest I’ve gone yet. I just think, well I’ve graduated from C25k, so even if it takes years, I’m working towards 10k! And they’re a friendly bunch on there, just as on here 👍🏻
30 minutes is nice amount of time to put aside 3 times a week. But, I'll get xmas out of the way and see what happens! 10k might be a nice target to aim for!
Congratulations 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉 well done! And as expected, a fabulous post! So pleased for you, and keep it up so that when snow is ready you can cheers her along too! (poor sausage!)
Have good rest day, and then it is just running!! Hurrah!
Congratulations, a great time of the year to graduate.
To get your graduation badge and the word GRADUATE 🎓 next to your username leave a message on the December 🎄 🎅 graduate post in the pinned posts on the right side of the healthunlocked C25K home page and tell the administrators that you have ran W9R3 of C25K and graduated 🎓 🏃🏾 👍 🎄 🎅
30.42, good time, not long before you can get a sub 30 minute 5k.
To parkrun or not to parkrun? that is the question.
At parkruns you don't need to run all the way, I occasionally walk on the steepest hill at one of the parkruns I go to, but all other 5K's I do I keep running, try and run a parkrun which has no hills or at least hills which are not too steep.
Brilliant - congratulations. Now you can try reversing your route and running the hill first!
(As for Snowgdss ' foot ... having had four months with no running at all with a stress fracture of my second metatarsal, I urge her to get it looked at! Nothing showed on an x-ray, only on an MRI which I had to push pretty hard to get. Once diagnosed I was told no weight bearing if I wanted it to heal - we compromised and I wore an orthopaedic boot for more weeks than I cared for! Fingers crossed it is something else and recovers soon, but do take care.)
What a wonderful post, sitting here with a massive grin on my face, you caught me out to begin with, I thought it wasn’t tallying with all your other posts but it does sound like the new you. Best of luck for a speedy recovery to your wife. Have a great Christmas.
🍾🎊🎖🎓🏆👍🏻amazing congratulations! So pleased to have seen your progress from your first run 🏃♂️ till now running 30’. Enjoy the very well deserved champagne 🥂
👍🤗😁🎺📢😎🤩🥳🎅🦸♂️🦹♂️🏃♂️🤸♀️👏🎓Fa-bu-lous! Well done, glad you enjoyed it. Crumbs, you are very fast even with Brian to surmount! Must be the thought of that champers..... Have a wonderful Christmas and I hope you continue to post and entertain us through the next part of your running journey. 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🥂
I had no intention of trying to do 5k. Half way through the program, I figured I had no chance and just put that idea out of my head. But in the last 2 weeks, I just figured that if I really push myself, I just might do it... cant sit here and say it was easy though!
Its said that when the queen mother was alive, she was Moet and Chandons best customer... I'm giving her a run for her money this weekend 😆🍾🍾🍾🍾🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🍾🍾🍾🍾
Congratulations! What a great post and the happiness just shines out 🎉👏💐! Wishing you and your wife many happy runs in 2020. The chilled champagne welcome sounds very elegant 😊🥂 ......happy Christmas RunningMigster
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Well done Migs, proud of you mate. You really seem to have taken to this running malarkey like a duck to water. As you say it doesn't seem five minutes since you were struggling with week one, and now look at you: running for 30 minutes, wow!
I know you'll be encouraging Snowgds once she's back into her running shoes and I also know you'll be popping up on here with words of encouragement when you think we need it too. A very well done to you, you really earned that nice glass (or two) of fizz.
I just hope two more things. Firstly that you saved enough puff after completing your final run for your lap of honour and secondly, that you learned from my error and didn't try running home after your glass(es) of fizz!
You know what, I would have loved to have had you and the rest of the gang sharing this Champagne with us. You have really helped spur me on and I've loved the banter on here.
You know I'm watching you all the way and I'll have that fizz waiting for you at your finish line!
That’s a lovely post . Like so many others enjoy your posts .
I felt the same that everyone on here was with me as I ran that last run and couldn’t wait to post .
I hope it won’t be long before I get back to my running but no sign yet as foot not quite right and I admit I am a little apprehensive that it will happen again .
Anyway that’s for the future after Christmas 🎄 Enjoy your fame 🎉
Hi Buddy. I've come to a bit of a halt at the moment what with Christmas & everything. I have nothing physical stopping me, just mental 'stuff', busy time of year and all that. I will get out if I can beforethe New Year just for a practice, my running clobber is there & ready for me when I am. If not I will start by trying to re-do Week 3 and hopefully push on from there in January.
Congratulations Mig from one new graduate to another. What a wonderful feeling! And yes, here’s a toast 🥂to everyone on this forum, especially those of you who are on this journey. You CAN do it too 💪🏽.
Woohoo! Well done RM, fantastic achievement! Feel proud! I’m sorry to say you can’t hit the couch again even if you wanted to. A because you now have the running bug and B because you’ve got those consolidation runs to do! But we’ll allow you a little celebration first!👏👏👏🏆
You could take Michael if you wanted to - I took Laura simply by repeating week 9 runs (I wasn’t brave enough to do it on my own!). It gave me some structure to my consolidation runs and I found by the end of the 3rd week, I was ready to go it alone! Whatever you do, enjoy it!
Well done! I remembered your first ever post as it made me laugh and kept an eye out for your updates! Not going to lie, it’s harder once you graduate but congratulations and enjoy the glory!!
But now I'm free from the shackles of my route (so far in I couldn't change), I might now start to look for a flatter route to make it a little easier!
Awww thank you so much. This forum is amazing. So many good people on here to help you through the program. I'm so pleased I started this. It was really well worth the effort.
Good luck with your runs and let us know how you get on
🎉 wow Mig many many congratulations . Wonderful news . I was waiting to see this post ! So pleased for you. All you say is so true about the effort it takes but the support is phenomenal on this site .
Onwards now but don’t be like me and rush on - consolidation the key (IannodaTruffe’s advice extremely useful) .
You will feel proud of Graduate by your name for a long time to come .
Celebrate well and hope your wife recovers soon too.
Thank you so much. You've been such a great source of encouragement for me and I really do appreciate that.
The timing of this has been a blessing. I'll get a couple of consolidation runs in over the festive period, but I think it will also provide a natural break.
What next? 10k is the next natural steps. However, 3 x 30 minute runs fit in really well with my week. I'll have to seriously think about it.
For now, have a great Christmas and enjoy the festive running!
Ditto. I'm very competitive, so it annoys me not to have it done. Perhaps I'll run away Xmas day not before I've fed 20 though. I quite like the idea of my last run being the first next step
Wow very impressive. Your times per km are so fast, don't think I could ever move that fast. With the improvements that will come naturally as you consolidate you will be a serious contender.👍
I was never going for the 5k. But when I realised a couple of weeks ago that it was within reach, I decided to really push for it. My weakness, is that I'm very competitive. So to have that carrot dangling in front of me, it was just too much to resist!
Very well done Migster! I also completed W9R3 this morning. And also had a tech failure in that I forgot to wear my Smartwatch! So I thought, that’s OK, I’ll use MapmyRun alongside the running podcast, but MapmyRun asked me for log in details! AAAAArrrrrrgggg! So annoyed with myself so haven’t any accurate stats, but I know I usually run an 11 minute per mile pace, not tooooo bad for an old bird 😜. Hubby met me at the finish and we had a fab brunch together in local cafe, even though I was soaked to the skin as had hail shower at the end of my run. 🌧
Now I just need to figure out how to get admin to give me a flashy badge like yours !!
Merry Christmas everyone and happy running!! 🎄🎄💚💚🎄🎄🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
Whoop whoop... really well done. Isnt it such a great high.
By chance the Samsung Health app decided to kick in for the first time ever. But seems to only recognise 'activity'. So I've got stats for 40 minutes of activity and not for the run. Hey ho.
There is a post for December Graduation. Just add to the thread and you'll get your badge.
How wonderful. Congratulations on this amazing achievement. I think it's around week 5 when Laura said you're a runner , that I realised my life is changing. Well done on such a wonderful wonderful life change. Here's to the next few years many years of running.
So very true. I used to watch runners feeling sorry for them. Now I'll run in the wind and the rain and just love it. It really is a remarkable feeling.
Cracking job well done! That pace and distance for a non runner, WOW that makes me want to get to that graduation badge .....
And you will get that badge! And we'll all be here to cheer you on! Dont focus on the pace though, that's just a stubborn, competitive side of me wanting to push too hard!
Yay! That’s fantastic, huge congratulations to u! Hope ur wife is back fighting fit soon too. U have been inspirational to my journey and always had a kind word to say so thank you! Hoping I can fit in my runs to graduate this week too 🤞🏼Well done Mig 🏃🏽♂️🏆🎉
Congrats to you Migster, so well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Running is a great addiction, continue to enjoy. It was fab to ‘hear’ your sheer joy of your great achievement 🙂🎄
Brilliant!! Well Done You!!!! Wear that graduation grin with pride!!!
Hope Snowgdss recovers soon but in the meantime she can enjoy the bubbly and bask in your glory, cause it’s the understanding and encouragement of our other halves what’s helped us all get here!
Missed this as haven’t been on phone much over Christmas, so a belated and sincere well done!! You posts really encouraged me during the first few weeks, so thank you for that. Keep running and keep posting - I’m week 8 ( slow progress, hard getting out with kids etc) but determined to get there. Well done again!
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