Hey everyone I was looking into doing the couch to 5-K being that I have time to kill since I won't be meeting the surgeon till April 18 I thought I should start becoming active and eating healthier. I was wondering if anyone has done the couch to 5-k challenge. How was it? What was most challenging? Any tips you would recommend? Thanks for everyone who taking the time to respond!

So, there is a school of thought that says it is better to work on distance early out ... not worry about pace. Once you are able to get distance, you can increase your pace. Think of it this way. If you are able to consistently run 6K without stopping, you will be able to run 5K faster. When you are able to run 10K without stopping, you will be able to run your 5K even faster.

You should be mixing up your pace as you run your distances as well. This will help your body to NOT have muscle memory. If you run at the same pace for every run, you will find that you cannot run any faster. Muscle memory is great for tennis, golf ... many sports, but not running. We don't want to train our bodies to run at the same pace, else we will never run faster. That is why one of your workouts each week should be short distance sprints. This will teach your body how to rotate your hips/legs/feet faster.

So last week I skipped the whole week had a tough week..Hubby is still trying to adjust to my weight loss and its so hard for him to be supportive and not use it against me..didn't work out at all I worked and had school work and was mentally exausted from fighting w hubby..I will start week 3 over again..hope this week is better...I will post any new updates wish me luck..sometimes support just isn't there and its going to take ME to be strong and do this he wonders why do u have to work out surgerys enough..but damn I want to be tight wonder what he's going to think next year when I come out w wanting my tummy tuck..

Finally got around to running! Did Week 6, Day 1 - 5-min jog, 3-min walk, 8-min jog, 3-min walk, and 5-min jog. It was pretty manageable, and I actually had a pretty good pace - 6:44 per km overall, which is much faster than before (around 7 min per km). I ran 3.8+ km during the 20-min workout portion, which means finishing a 5K under 30 minutes shouldn't be a problem!

Probably won't get a chance to run again til Sunday....

Oh man, I haven't run for a week now! I developed a bad cold last weekend, and I was not able to take time off from work to recover, so I just trudged there every morning at 6 AM despite a low grade fever and generally feeling awful....It's been a week, and I STILL have a bad, chesty cough! I was up at 3:30 last night for no reason but just to hack up a lung for half an hour. Today I went for a short walk, and within 4 blocks, I was having a coughing fit, so I'm still not cleared.

I'm going to try the gym tomorrow and depending on how it goes, I'm hoping to attempt a run on Sunday.

Did Week 6, Day 2 this morning! The first 10-min interval was a breeze. The second one was tough, but I made it without stopping. I covered 4 km in 23 mins (2 10-min runs and the 3-min walk in between). Pretty happy, especially because according to my log, I hadn't run for 9 days!

Anyone still doing the C25K? It seems it's just me posting here these days!

I haven't done an official C25K workout in the last week, but today my gym had a field trip to do some trail running. We certainly covered at least 5 km, although there were a lot of hills, so we occasionally stopped to catch our breath and regroup, so it wasn't really a typical distance run.

I've officially registered for my 5K for next Sunday!

I have the app but I am barely able to make 1 mile right now. How out of shape do they expect you to be at the start?

I have the app but I am barely able to make 1 mile right now. How out of shape do they expect you to be at the start?

I skipped right ahead to week 4, but I think week 1 starts with very short intervals, like maybe a 1-1.5 minutes of running followed by walking. It's not called Couch-to-5K for nothing! If you find it too easy, you could always skip ahead a few weeks.