Couch to 5K. Just starting, anyone like to join me?

[roxymama]

Checking in to this thread. I am on week 3, day 3 tonight. Doing about 3 a week, sometimes 4. But never back to back days. I get usually about 2 treadmill days and 1 outdoor run days each week.
I just went and mapped out about where I will be if I keep this up for the 5k I signed up for on 5/22. Looks like I will be week 8-2 which is a 28 minute jog day. Then I'll be complete with week 9 around the first week of June.
I have another race 6/11 to keep me going.
I feel great so far but have not done any of the "extended run days" where you are going more 20 minutes straight running. I'm nervously optimistic. I bet I run slower because now I can go pretty fast during the intervals. We shall see how that changes for my Friday run that has 5 min segments.
I have a run journal if anyone wants to stalk my progress. I list my times and miles, etc.

 

[DisneyGirlFlorida]

I've been doing C25K off and on since November last year. I made it to Week 3, Day 3, then Disney stepped in and screwed everything up! LOL Actually, 3 Disney weekend trips combined with EEC kind of threw my training schedule off a little. Then I did a nighttime glow race a few weeks after EEC. Somewhere between all of that, I found Jeff Galloway's interval training method to better for me than C25k.

I LOVE C25k, it got me off the couch (literally) and doing some jogging (something I NEVER though I could do). However, the jogging for 3 minutes was really killing me (I repeated Week 3 2x before I took my Disney break). Today, I did 1 mile with a 1:1 walk/jog ratio. The second mile I did 2 min walking, 1 min jogging since I was getting too tired too quickly. Overall though, I felt much better. I didn't want to push it since I hadn't done any regular jogging/training in about a month.

Whatever training method you go with, the most important point is that you are DOING something - good for you! Listen to your body and do what feels right.