These are puke neon yellow. Sales are great but it has to be a good shoe first. Just one trip to a doctor costs more in time, money, and aggravation and pain then even a really expensive shoe.

Just finished the first week! I feel pretty awesome!

Awesome. Don't be afraid to repeat weeks if you need to. It can go up pretty steep.

I did it turned out it was a 27 min run yesterday. I had played two hours of tennis the night before and the pollen was extremely high. Austin is the allergy capital of the country BTW. You can look it up.

I did not feel good pretty early into the run. But I finished. Now on week 8. I would finish, mine is a 9 week program, right before my first 5K Feb 1.

Stick with it everyone. I was so not a runner. But I made it a goal and, gasp, I even enjoy it most times now.

Did 28 minutes tonight. Big turn around from Wednesday. It was one of my best runs ever. Felt super strong through it all. Was just wonderful.

Good for you diamondgeog!

I am so bummed...I haven't been able to run since a week ago Sunday...going to the orthopedist tomorrow

I had a calf pull right when I was about to hit week 5. I couldn't run for a month. I went back to week 2. Stuff happens. I hope you get better. We pulled the trigger on a treadmill for two reasons. One less wear and tear on my wife and myself. I was getting back pain, she was getting knee pain. Second it gets really miserable here in summer. So we are getting a treadmill.

I just did my 29 min W8D2 run. It felt incredible. Easier to do than 30 second was last summer. Next one is my 30 min W8D3 and I will have 'officially' completed the program, but I still can't go close to 5K in 30 minutes. But getting closer. So I will up my running time a bit after that.

I really like running on my treadmill. I'm a single mom with a 5 year old, so my getting out of the house options are limited (summer is a bit easier, I can walk while she rides her bike or scooter, but it's a lot of start and stop.) I have a recumbent exercise bike as well, which I used alot before I started running, but it didn't do as much for my body - cardio is fine - but running was changing my overall body shape faster. I guess I'll see what the doc says tomorrow and go from there.

Boo! Saw the orthopedist today. No more running for awhile. Apparently I have arthritis under my kneecap and running has irritated it. I had a cortisone injection and will go for some PT. Guess I'll go back to the bike for a while. It's just not the same though

Faded - I am sorry to hear about your knee. At least you have the bike as a back up so you can still get your cardio in.

I just finished week 2 and I found the 1 min 30 sec jog really hard. I can't imagine jogging for 3 mins so I am going to re-do week 2 again to become more comfortable with the jogging.

Faded - That sucks Biking is a pretty good backup I would say. Take it easy on your knees.

I finally finished week 1 yesterday, I think I will end up doing week 2 twice like you Rated. I actually even upped my walking and jogging speed for most of this one too.

Thanks gals. I've used my bike for a long time - rehabbing my achilles, it was great. But I didn't realize until I started the C25K program how much better of a work out running is for me than biking. And I really wanted to run a 5k this year, so I'm just disappointed. I'm going to switch over to a strength training program and see where that gets me.

Rated: Repeating weeks is a great idea. I set my priority to finish any day I started. So it was more important for me to get comfortable with distances than treat it as an 8 week program.

Faded: I wish you a quick recovery. I had to take a month off. It will be OK. This is for the rest of our lives. So the important thing is to keep going when your body allows, not any particular time to run a 5K.

I'm going to sort of repeat my 2nd week. This week got interrupted because of job interviews and bad weather, so I was only able to go twice, and I'm not going to have a car tonight or tomorrow. So I only did day 1 and 2 of week two this week, and I will do day 3 three times next week, before moving on to week 3 the week after that. I definitely don't feel ready for week 3 just yet.

Did my 30 min run today. So finished week 8. And my first 5K is a week from Saturday.

I was getting over a touch of a virus and it was 37 degrees but I did it. If I can do this anyone can. I couldn't run 30 seconds last August. And it is amazing how quickly you can up minutes the last 3 weeks. I think you go up from a 10 min run to 30 mins.

But these programs know what they are doing. A 10 min run, 2 min walk, 10 min run is really building you up. My biggest advice is to repeat weeks as often as needed to feel confident. And if your schedule allows do try to do 3 days at least per week. That helps a lot.

Went on my first run on our new treadmill which was delivered today. Another 30 min run. Loved it. I was wearing a Polar heart monitor and I didn't notice this till the end because I had a tablet covering most of the display.

But it seemed the Polar auto-synched with the treadmill. Is this possible? I briefly touched one of the heart rate bar monitors but only with one hand. It must have auto synched.