Today was an off day for the Couch to 5K program, but I still did my 65 minutes on the treadmill and 4miles today. I didn't run as I am afraid of 1) blisters 2) burnout and 3) shin splints or other injuries.

I'm going to edit my original post for me and keep up with how many miles I've gone during this program.

Hope you all are doing well and having a great day.

Tasha

Welcome to the club and no worries about the running, I haven't run since I was in High school 10 years ago.

So I ran 2 miles in 20 minutes just now. I could've done 3 or more I'm pretty sure, but I want to follow the rules on this one. At least to start. If it turns out to be too easy I'll crank up the heat.

The route I picked sucked with the swiftness so I just winged it all over the place and used my trusty new Google Maps Pedometer to figure it out afterwards.

[Just noticed the quick formatting buttons are broken. Now I get what that guy was talking about earlier.]

Edit: Oh, man. This is going to be addictive, I can tell. I already wanna go back out and run some more. I feel like I didn't try.

LMAO. Yep that was me too! Thank goodness that we don't have to pick teams!!! That was the real sucky part!

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Good idea on adding the link to this club on your signature! We will be able to recruit more wayward souls. You really are the Den Mother of this club...keep it up mommy!

Alrighty guys, I did the first day of week one. I have to admit I haven't sweat like that in a while, but it felt good. It was a small struggle, but one I enjoyed.

TrkrGrl83, I'm right there with ya on the slow kid in gym class thing. We'll gain speed together! hehe

I did 1.82 miles in 20 minutes. Not to bad, but I hope to get faster with the program.

forget about speed. speed will come later.

Ok, looks like today may be day 2 for some on board and it might be an off day for some.

Make sure that you all are stretching those legs and arms after each work out we definitely don't want any injuries here in week 1 (or any other week).

Congrats to all of you who have completed Week 1 Day 1 so far and gear up for week 1 day 2 today or tomorrow!!

Speed will definitely come later! I am still pretty slow, but I try!

I just finished Week 6 yesterday, and I am starting Week 7 tomorrow. Since yesterday was a 25 minute run, I am giving myself the day off of running (I am doing Tae Bo instead). I will start Week 7 tomorrow, which is a 25 minute run for all 3 days!!!

It's so crazy how I started in Week 1 running only 60 seconds at a time! ALL OF YOU CAN DO IT! The confidence I have now is awesome - knowing that I was only running 60 seconds at a time, and now I am running 25 minutes at a time! Stick with it! I promise that if I can do it, you can do it!!

I'm on Week 1 - Day 2 today.

Here's my breakdown:

WARM UP (5 mins)

JOG/WALK ALTERNATION (20 mins)
1 min @ 5.0 MPH
1.5 min @ 4.0 MPH

COOL DOWN (5 mins)

Distance: 2.04 Miles

P.S. - Did anyone watch the Biggest Loser last night and see that Jillian made Britney run at 14 MPH?!? It was only 15 seconds - but OMG...that's crazy.

YES! That was crazy!! I would have flown off the treadmill!

You are off to a good start!

Can I still join?

I was focusing on weights today, which is difficult because I'm really weak, but I didn't break a sweat like I'm used to so I figured I'd try some random cardio machines for shorter intervals of time than I'm used to. First thing I did was the treadmill and I was pretty disappointed. I was expecting my mile to be much faster than it was, but my pace was sticking me at around 14min. I was honestly expecting a 10-12min max.

I don't own the club, but I'm sure Tasha won't mind! The more of us, the better!

Tyly is right! You can absolutely join. Welcome aboard!

Just keep us up to date as we are going to have some people on the same day and week here and some people on different days and weeks.

The more the merrier! BUt it's all still the first week for most and so far I've only completed day 1 of week 1. Day 2 is coming up today! =)

Tasha - when counting miles in our signature - do we count all miles (including those walked during the C25K AND those walked on off days) or just jogging/running miles?

Pennybear - see my earlier post about being the slow kid in gym class. My jogging speed is only 5 MPH, which is a 12 min mile. - Have no shame!