Hi everyone,

this is our seventh week in the Couch to 5K program. This is designed to be a 9 week program, but you can repeat weeks (as I will be doing) until you are comfortable moving on. However, you are not supposed to skip weeks.

It has been strongly suggested by trainers and runners alike to NOT run on consecutive days.

More information can be found here: Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan

Please go to the cool running site to view your week’s detail.

Anyone is free to join, no matter where we are!!

This is the place to check in and support with each other and see how it is going.

What week are you doing?

How is it going for you? Is it too difficult / too easy?

Any comments??

Good luck everyone!

Thanks for the invite! Think im just going to sit home alone on New Years Eve....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

He i just noticed, you had your band 2 days after me!

I know! Look at us go running, running, running less than 4 months out!

YEp go us!

I had an interview at lunch time from a health magazine doing and article on lapband featuring me and my wife!

They took pictures and everything. THey are going to send me a copy when it gets printed.

week 6 here i come!

You go Sweet!!! yesterday i did my second 25 min run. Er..week 7? i will have to look.

Got to fly today but i made sure my hotel as a treadmill and if thats no good there is a Bally Fitness across the street from it that i can enter for $15 a day (company will pick up that expense!).

##*@#@ snowing here so I can't start week 7 today! :confused:

You guys are doing great!

Just finished week 7 today. Third 25min run (about 2 miles)

Im on the road so i had to do it at my hotel. I think i will try the Bally fittness across the street tomorrow,

Heres my home for the week.

Hey yall! Thought I'd break in here for a minute and tell you my recent "couch to 5K" story. Basically, I did couch to 5K back last Jan/Feb (at about 250 lbs) and ran my first race in Feb (at about 220 lbs). I repeated at least one day of most weeks twice, but not as many as you'd think. Also, every time I was really dreading one of the bumps, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be (on the contrary, some of the bumps I didn't think would be so bad, actually were). All that culminated in me running the NYC marathon in November in 4:23. Woohoo!

So, then I had PS (thigh lift and arm lift) and had to sit out from all exercise for exactly a month from my last run (which was, essentially, the marathon). This week, I'd planned to come back to couch to 5K to get back in shape before my second PS later this month. The good news? I didn't need to do couch to 5K again! My first run back was hard, but by the second run, I felt as strong as ever (maybe a LITTLE slower, but I could certainly run consistently for long distances without needing to take walk breaks).

Anyway, just wanted to tell you guys how great you're doing and to let you know that if you stay with this for life, even with small setbacks like I had last month not being able to run, you WILL get to goal and stay there. I know that's as big of a component to my (forthcoming) maintenance as the band itself.

GO RUNNERS!!!

Julie - i can't believe you are already running again! So great. Sooooo cold though in NY for that though today.

ok.... guys, i dropped the ball on this week. let's just continue this week and i will start a new week late Sunday (my parents are coming into town).

or ... if someone wants to start the new thread, go for it. :Banane48: this is our challenge, not just mine.

thanks for the pump up julie! I'm loving running so much. i am finishing up week 6 tomorrow. i'll be in Rome for week 7, but i'm going to try to squeeze in runs somewhere. not fitness center at our hotel.

i did week 8 workout 1 last night...28mins!!!

woo hoo

wooo hooo whos!

week 6 gone! week 7 here i come