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I am about to start w9r2, so close to being finished and I want to prepare myself to graduate so I can't make the excuses! I'm very excited. The 9 weeks took me 5 months, I spent over a month doing w8 for various reasons.

I've searched many posts on here and reddit but haven't found a satisfactory answer - I'm specifically looking for an app to make my own Laura to play over a playlist. ;) I want to make timers for the five minute warm up and cooldown walks, plus at 15min, 25 min and 29min. The running apps I've looked at seem to allow me only to set a single timer/audio cue. Other fitness apps want me to hit a button after each timer. I just wanna set it and forget it like I did the podcasts.

Alternatively if I can play two audio apps at the same time my phone,I will make an MP3 of my own voice announcing intervals over music, thought that's a pain if I want to change it in the future. I THINK there might be meditation apps that can program timers like that?

Bonus if it can also announce kilometer goals, but i am not too worried about that yet.

Let me know if you've found a post-C25K system you like! Free is good but reasonably priced is fine if people vouch for it.

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Runkeeper allows you to programme your own intervals and will give time and/or distance notifications as well as average and/or current pace notifications while it tracks you.

It all runs in the background and is free..........what more can you want.

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ameiniasGraduate in reply toIannodaTruffe

I tried runkeeper but I can only set one interval - like every 5 minutes or every ten minutes. I don't like announcements at the beginning because makes me count how much time I have left. I did kind of get the impression it could do that, though - maybe it can only do it on iPhone and not android?

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IannodaTruffeMentor in reply toameinias

Go to Create Workout, then just add time or distance intervals.

Works on Android for me.

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ameiniasGraduate in reply toIannodaTruffe

Thank you very much! I never would have found that without your help!

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Great question. I graduated and found motivation hard because I had nothing to guide me, so I totally get where your coming from

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