Yay, I just completed final run week 9...

[Jojoro]

I completed the final run today and managed 5k in 33 mins I decided to keep going until I hit the magic number. Celebrated with a strawberry smoothie made by my daughter who said it matched the colour of my face! I've loved this programme and stuck to the timetable of 9 weeks. I now need to keep motivated to continue, any ideas for moving forward or do I keep repeating week 9?? I quite like hearing Laura's soothing voice in my ear, I'm going to miss her!

[Ant50 Graduate]

Well done, great time and distance to end week 9 on, you must be really pleased. When I finished I carried on and listened to the week 9 runs again, but to be honest after a few runs it felt a bit strange. I then switched to music, but I found myself looking at my Fitbit far too often to see how long/far I had run, which made the runs seem even longer. Now I just listen to music or the radio and don’t bother to look at my Fitbit, however my headphones tell me as I pass each KM mark and they give me my average pace, I find these are all the info I need whilst I run. Also, for the last month or so I have been running the same route, so I can now easily tell whether I am running too quickly/slowly as I pass certain points it also gives me a good idea of whether or not I am feeling up to pushing past the 5k or not. No idea if this helps, but all I would say is that you have to tell yourself you can run 30mins with our without the app coach, but if you struggle just listen to week 9 again! Enjoy your consolidation runs take your time to build up further speed or distance 😊

[Fionamags Graduate]

Double congratulations - on graduating and completing a 5k! Go post on the May graduates page to claim your badge - you've earned it! You also might want to check out the Consolidation Club and see what post c25k folk are up to.

One again congrats! 🥳🥇🎊🎈🎉