Completed W3D3 and W4D1 today. Yay!!! I'll try to fit in another day this week but will definitely have week 4 completed by next week.
Keep on going everyone!!

So glad to hear everyone is making such great progress! I only ran one day last week because I was traveling and my schedule got all messed up :(

So I will finish Week 4 this week, and hopefully move on to Week 5! I was having some pain in my left shin, so I am hoping that this break allowed that to fully heal.

This weekend I went to Boulder, Colorado for Memorial Day and there was a 10k race called the Bolder Boulder that 51,000 people ran! It looks like such a fun race, maybe next year I will be running instead of spectating... I hope so!

I know what you mean about not being able to believe you can run more than 2 min straight, Ronja! Every week I am so intimidated by the longer running times, but I keep being amazed at my ability to meet them! That is so exciting that you are planning to expand your family, I hope you will have a happy, healthy and fit pregnancy :)

Thank you Mamie! And fingers crossed for your week 5 :)
I had to take a week break from running, life got insanely busy and we were traveling. So I was not sure weather I should do week 1 all over, or do one extra day of week 1 - eventually I just moved straight to week 2. Just finished d1w2 and it was not easy to be honest...but I did it! I run uphill for a good part and I can feel my hips and butt but hey ho! I am so glad I did not give up and finished every last second of it :)

HI EVERYONE...I didn't disappear. I've been traveling and made it back home a day or so ago. I am still on track W9D2 completed this morning. I tried it yesterday and for some reason, I just tanked. I ran while I was traveling but my lungs felt the worst EVER yesterday. I didn't drink much water or eat too great the day before so I don't know if that had an immediate impact. I think my iron levels were also low (I'm anemic) and my energy was just non-existent.

Anyhoo, went back out today and it went fine. The last 10 minutes were tough. I kept repeating "this is mind over matter". I also prayed ALOT. I kept saying that I had 6 more minutes, then 5 more minutes, etc. Just when I was ready to throw in the towel, I looked at the time and I had 6 seconds left. So, I pushed on and finished!!!!!

I can't say I finished very fast but I did finish. My concern is that my 5K is scheduled for Saturday morning (yes, in 3 days). I don't feel ready...although D2 has traditionally been my toughest day for all of the non-interval weeks. I am thinking of going out again tomorrow to see how I feel and then resting until Saturday. However, my husband's grandmother also passed and we may be headed to the services on the same day as my 5K. I hate to make this day about me (my first 5K). I may just eat the registration cost and run the 5K scheduled in my town on June 16th. Thoughts/Opinions anyone?

Hi all, I'm new here and I am currently on Week 2 of the c25k plan. So far, I love it and I am enjoying running(for 1.5 mins lol). I'm curious about weight loss in terms of using this program. I have seen how the program has helped others become more fit and toned and it is an overall fat burner, but I also see that many people don't lose weight or get any smaller even though they run everyday. Do you think this is just a body type discrepancy? or is it a result of a mismatch in diet and exercise?

I would love to be more fit and toned, but I would also like to lose more weight and I'm hoping this program will get me to that place where I can lose that last 14 pounds.

Free, considering the circumstances I think I would wait for June 16, but it is a very personal decision. Just do what you feel is right and if you want to do the race, go for it. I'm sure you will do great :)

Quiet, welcome! I'm on W2 too. As for the weight loss, I've (slowly) been losing but I think it's more due to my diet than such little running...however, if we stick to the program, I'm sure 30 minutes of jogging WILL make a difference weight wise (as long as we're responsible with our eating too!)

As for me, I did W2D2 today. Please feel free to laugh at my expense: I decided to jog UPHILL for the first running interval, and I mean a STEEP slope. (I was bored by my regular ten-times-around-the-pond route and wanted to change the environment, unfortunately the place I was headed to is about a mile uphill from my place]. I ended up feeling like I could swallow my lungs. So, I turned the podcast off, WALKED uphill and started running again from there. Here I am, I survived!

Ronja, yes I really need to alter my diet. I think that's where I am slowing the weight loss down. Congrats on making it uphill. I run on a treadmill and in the first week I had it on an incline. I had to change that because week 2 and those 90 seconds runs were killing me. I'm both nervous and excited for Week 3 :)

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.............................

I GRADUATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

So, today was W9D3 and I did it. I forgot about the time and instead focused on completing a full 5K. I measured the course with my car and with my Endomondo run tracking app and it was about 3.20 miles. I ran 3.17 miles which means I did a 5K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the beginning, my breathing was rough. I realized for the first time that the first part of the course has an incline (stupid me). Other than that, I was fine. My legs started to feel sluggish in the last 3/4 mile but I pushed through.

All together, it took me 36:37 seconds to finish. Not the fastest but I did it and I GRADUATED :) :) :) I really can't believe that I could barely run the 90 seconds during W2 and today I actually did a 5K. I started on April 1st and finished today, almost exactly 9 weeks.

Does the program work, YES. However, I need to work on getting the 5K done in under 30 minutes. SO EXCITED!!!!!!!

Free congrats! I graduated too...in a way. Just jogged my first 5k - non stop!!!! My complete workout was 3.89miles in 1h02!!! Took me about 52min to jog the 3.1miles!!!

Oh girls you are amazing and SUCH an inspiration! One day I want to be where you are now - I find it so motivating to hear about your success. Thank you so much for sharing and keep running!

HAPPYRUNNER......YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

You made it through a 5K much faster than I did. SO EXCITED FOR US!!!!

Finished Week 7, Week 8 starts on Monday.

Today's workout was awesome. I'm at the end of week 2 and I ran 5 minutes straight. The run was supposed to be 1.5 min but I just had this burst of adrenaline and I wanted to go more. I felt so great and on top of the world.

To make it even better, I did my Week 3 Day 1 run after so, I got a great hour in of c25k. I ran 20 mins total in all(so happy about that). I think I'm going to try and combine two of the c25k workouts. It seems I'm up for the challenge and I want to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Driven congratulations! How did week 7 feel?

Thequietvoice how amazing! You must be in a good shape. It seems you don't really need c25k at all :) I finished week 2 today as well and I just made the last 90 seconds when I felt I couldn't do anything more. Wonder what week 3 is gonna be like for me...

Ronja....For some reason, W3 felt easier to me than W2. W7 was also harder than W8....go figure....