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I did this!! I started in August 2009 and ran my first 5K in October 2009!!! My time was 35 minutes.. not too bad for my first race. I have since run 4 more 5K's with my best time being 30:57. Yesterday, I started on a new program.. well, really I am toying with 2 .. Gateway to 8K and from 30 minutes to 1 hour. I think I like the idea of the one hour runner program better. We shall see which one sticks. Good luck to everyone running the C25K!

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OH Andi and Jill- I am just 2 days behind you (tomorrow I will finish week 1)!!

 

It is going really well so far, much harder than the first time I did it 2 years ago for the obvi reasons.

 

**for those that dont know, I had a serious bicycle accident in Sept, Surgery to repair my nose and sinuses in Oct, and due to the risk of hemmorage, I could not elevate my heart rate until mid January. So basically I am just starting to build my endurance back now.

 

However, I did find that day #2 was much easier on me than day 1, so we shall see!

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oh me too! we are on the same schedule I think! How did you do?
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OH Andi and Jill- I am just 2 days behind you (tomorrow I will finish week 1)!!

It is going really well so far, much harder than the first time I did it 2 years ago for the obvi reasons.

**for those that dont know, I had a serious bicycle accident in Sept, Surgery to repair my nose and sinuses in Oct, and due to the risk of hemmorage, I could not elevate my heart rate until mid January. So basically I am just starting to build my endurance back now.

However, I did find that day #2 was much easier on me than day 1, so we shall see!
Oh good, I'm glad we're on close to the same schedules!

I did good with the start of the second week. I actually went longer than I was supposed to because I'm used to doing hour classes and I felt like 30 minutes wasn't long enough. So I kept doing intervals until I hit 3 miles.

I'm supposed to do day 2 of week 2 tonight, but I'm getting a massage this afternoon and I don't know if it will be a good idea for me to run afterwards. I guess I'll see how I feel.
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I did good with the start of the second week. I actually went longer than I was supposed to because I'm used to doing hour classes and I felt like 30 minutes wasn't long enough. So I kept doing intervals until I hit 3 miles.
oh I thought of doing the same thing too because 30 mins just doesn't seem long enough to me! I think i will try getting to 3 miles when I go next time!
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oh I thought of doing the same thing too because 30 mins just doesn't seem long enough to me! I think i will try getting to 3 miles when I go next time!
I was glad I did it. The first week I kind of felt like I wasn't working out enough and I didn't have enough time to do a class and the running. So I was glad I did the extra time. I'm sure its different for all of us depending on the pace we're running at, but I think when I finish the program right now, I'm usually around 2 1/4 miles, so it's about another 3/4 of a mile that I keep doing the intervals. And then I walk for a few minutes to cool down. I think it took me about 45 minutes total the other night.

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I might try this! Week 2 was tough but i'm really worried about week 3!!
I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up in week 3, but I'm going to try, lol!
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I did day 2 of week 2 today and wanted to die.

 

I'm going to attribute that to several things:

 

1) I didn't have a whole lot of time to eat today, so I was very hungry when I got to the gym

 

2) I chose a treadmill where no fan ever blows, I was SO DAMN HOT!

 

3) The podcast I chose for today sucked! I didn't like any of the songs, so it made things go by really slow.

 

I did the whole thing, I think I did one extra interval and walked for a little bit afterwards but I didn't do the extra intervals today, like the other day. I just couldn't do it!

 

I hope everyone else had a better day than me!

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