I've recently started doing hills/stairs with a couple of friends 2 times a week but was also hoping to restart (again!) C25K to learn to like running distances and work on my endurance. I don't want to run more than 3 days a week because my knees are bad and I don't need to be pounding on them any more than I already do, so I was wondering how to incorporate hills/stairs into C25K.

Has anyone done this? If so, did you just do hills/stairs twice a week and then a C25K day for the third day of running to extend the program much longer? Or did you count the hills/stairs days as a C25K day and on the third running day do a C25K workout?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't know enough about endurance to make this decision on my own.

I love stairs and hills and running, I just mix my workouts up... One week I may do hill, run, run, the next week I will do stairs, run, hills, and so on... Just mix it up to make it fun and also the hills/stairs will help your endurance. Also, when I get bored during my run I will run to some stairs or hills in the neighbourhood, do them a few times then continue on with my run...

Variety is the spice of life, so mix it up...

Hope this helps...

Thanks! That does help. I think I'm trying to be too rigid with this and I just need to go with the flow, like you suggest.

I'll try it out and see how it goes.