Good luck ladies! Couch to 5k has also made me do things that I never thought possible. I just ran my first 10k! I am slow, but get faster everyday! Ya'll can do it!!!

I'll be on the treadmill until spring. We won't thaw enough here to run outside until about April and that is if I am lucky.

I can easily walk the 3.5-3.7 mph when I'm up to it. And when I do my intervals I can jog at 4.5-4.7 for about 2 minutes on a good day the first time around. Every time after that I jog though I lose about .2mph.

I soooo wish I had a new treadmill. Mine is a 3rd time hand me down with manual incline and a dial to change the speed. I used to love reading while I walked and on this treadmill there is nowhere to put a book without accidentally bumping the knob and either slowing yourself to a crawl of flinging yourself off the end when suddenly you are going 8mph. Not fun or recommended, lol.

I am going to spend the next week working on WATP Walk and Jog and then try jogging more on the treadmill.

Dixie - awesome! thanks for posting the PDF. I will be outside on sidewalks... at least I will try. Otherwise treadmill.

Just 13 days left till March! Hahahah

To anyone who is thinking of doing the C25K - DO IT DO IT DO IT!! I started the C25K on January 2, and I am now on week 6 of 9 and I have to say I LOVE IT!! I have tried multiple times during my 25 years to run, but I never did it correctly - I tried too fast too quickly. I was determined to get really serious about exercise at the turn of this new year, and I thought the c25k was perfect for getting serious. I was really scared at first, and the first 2 weeks was really hard (I had been walking and doing WATP videos and the elliptical before that so I wasn't completely new to exercise but the first 2 weeks were still hard). Now I'm at week 6, and my next workout is run 25 minutes or 2 1/4 miles with no walking. Last week there was a workout to run non-stop for 20 minutes or 2 miles - I never thought I would be able to do it, but I did, and I felt so empowered. I am a little scared about the 25 minutes of non-stop running, but I know I can do it if I just push myself.

The best part about the c25k is that I have lost 7 pounds since starting it (good for me because my weight loss is really really slow - maybe like 3 pounds a month since October) and I have gone down 2 pants sizes since starting. I am really able to tell a difference in my legs since starting to run. I truly believe now that running is one of the best forms of exercise out there (not to knock walking - I still love to walk!). I don't think I'll ever be a "runner" or run a race, but I do think that the c25k is the one thing that will allow me to be able to run 2-3 miles without keeling over. Go for it ladies!

Yes, go for it! I put it off for a long, long time, because I had no workout clothes I felt comfortable wearing in public, no gym membership, no treadmill, etc. Finally, in January this year, I got my shoes, and decided to quit putting it off. I cleared a path, warned the kid, and started running through my house from one end to the other. I know, that's pretty silly, but it got me going, and I had no excuses left. So, if you want to be a runner, do it. You can do this!

Cheryl

I'd like to join too, if it's ok, but I've already started, I finished week 1 yesterday.
I am using the treadmill, it's too icy to run outside here right now

I'll be using the treadmill. Unless I can get Hubby to do this with me. I'm too afraid of loose dogs to run outside.

I've been speaking with my personal trainer about starting to jog now. He told me to try it and to double up on glucosamine starting now. So, I'd like to try the C25K, very slowly, and if my knees start giving me problems I'm backing off until I lose more weight. I lost 100+ pounds 10 years ago and started jogging at closer to 200 pounds. It was CRAZY how I started losing and toning once I started jogging. I have to really push myself fast and hard on the elliptical to get my heart rate up now and I think jogging will help with that in a natural way since it's just my body moving without the help of the machine.

I was running today!!!! I did 31 minutes and 1.7 miles total. It only averages out to 18 minute miles but I did intervals. Out of those 31 minutes I jogged/ran 12.5 minutes! Woooohooo! Usually at 3.9 mph. Sometimes faster sometimes slower. Approx total miles ran .81 miles so almost half my distance was running.

It is so weird how I can walk comfortably at 3.7 and at 4.2 if I try but as soon as you turn that walk into a jog at the same pace how different it feels. Does anyone else do that? Or am I weird?

Oh, I'm hoping that happens for me!

Zinke, sounds like you're getting a great headstart. Congratulations!

I decided this morning that I was going to see how long it took me to do the 3.1 miles. 3.16 miles in 60 minutes. No running today, just walking. My goal for the rest of the month is to shave a little (even if it is 30 seconds at a time) off that.

I did do interval walking for the first 30 minutes. I did my warm up, then every 90 seconds or so I sped up .2 miles an hour up to 4mph then worked my way back down to 3mph. Up and down, up and down. The last half hour was just concentrating on getting to the 3.1 miles. Usually I only do 30 minutes at a time on the treadmill so 60 was a stretch for me today.

I want to join you all in the C25K. I have wanted to do it before and have even started but I have never gotten past the first week. I think this support is exactly what I need to be able to do this. A big thanks to DIVA for posting about this in TBL black team thread. Without that post I never would have seen this.

You are very welcome!

I did day 1 week 2 yesterday!
I went 1.56 miles. I am trying to make sure I got a little further/faster every time.