Well, my 5th week of running because a trainer advised me to do every week twice (bad knee).
Man, that second 3 minute stretch felt long. Managed to push through though - just as I was about to give in and reach for my phone to see how much time was left, I got the "do a brisk walk!"
Looking ahead, it's hard to imagine I'll be able to run for 30 mins straight when 3 feels so long, but I'm reminding myself to trust the programme. A few weeks ago, 1 minute felt unbearable, after all!
Also recruited a friend this weekend who's starting her C25k journey today. Feel a bit like a running evangelist 😅 Funny thing is she'll probably finish way before me, considering how slow I'm going.
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I have a knee that's been bad since I was little (easily goes out of joint, often gets painful if I train too hard) and have previously tried to start running but had to stop because it got too painful. Been told by someone who's been a trainer for over 30 years that it's a good idea to slow down my progress by doing the weeks twice, because it lets me monitor the impact it's having on my knee and lets my body adjust before I step up the intensity. So far, I haven't had any knee pain at all, while last time I tried to do C25k I had to bow out in week 2, so it seems to be working!
Once you get to week 5, it might be best to do each run twice rather than repeating each week. However, if you're feeling good in yourself it might be fine to do C25K at the normal pace from that point on.
Thanks for the advice! Seems like a good idea to start repeating days rather than weeks when the programme starts to be different each day. I'm doing some (fairly arbitrary) stretches after each time, and have a set of knee and leg exercises that I do before each run, but definitely good to have some more suggestions for what to do. Especially the stretches, since that's basically just been a random combination of leg stretches I remember from gym class 😅
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