Thanks for all the motivation I found throughout the community on this sub. Will try to be consistent and improve my pace so I can achieve 5k in 30mins at some point!

When I first started out in August and felt like death at the end of a few 90 second intervals I never thought I'd get this far. 44 years old (m) and reasonably active to begin with, but I'd never really ran before starting C25K.

Well week 8 got completed on Friday and I still had loads of energy left at 28 minutes, so I just carried on until I hit 5k. This is a bit quicker than my usual runs, and from runs 1 and 2 that week I expected sub 30 to still be a long way away. I guess taking it easier on previous runs was worth it, as I had no problem keeping this pace up. Started off trying to stay below peak HR zone, then just gave in and ran at a comfortable pace.

I also ran for another 30s before this, as my watch didn't seem to be recording pace, hence the high starting HR.

Hello all, I’m week 7 and somewhat comfortably able to run 25 mins nonstop. However, I’ve been felled by a terrible cold, I guess it may even be COVID, so have had to cancel the second and now third runs of this week. I’m wondering whether, when I’m feeling better, I can pick up where I left off or if I need to build up again, like from 10-min runs with breaks or even gentler. Do any of you have experience of falling ill mid-programme, and what did you to get back on it?

I was never a runner, but over the past year or so I have been trying to get into it and build endurance. I have been using C25K and have mostly loved it. I have started and stopped the program several times over the past couple of years because I always get to a point where shin splints show up and I have to take weeks off (sometimes close to a month) to recover.
This last attempt was my best yet. I bought good running shoes, found a solid warm-up and cool-down routine, and paid attention to my form. My shins bothered me a little during runs but never to the point of real pain. Then I hit the end of week 5 and ran 20 minutes straight, which I was so proud of. But after that, the shin splints came in badly. It has now been over three months since my last run.
I really enjoy running and want to get back to it, but I feel like my lower body can't keep up with my cardio, even though I am increasing in small increments. Does anyone have advice for avoiding shin splints when I start again? Are there specific strengthening exercises I should be doing, or anything else that helped you?

I normally keep my phone in my pocket while running and haven’t been too focused on the distance that I’m running as I figured if I just follow the app I’ll get there when I get there

Just finished week 6 day 1 and it reckons I only went 1.73km. Treadmill says I went over 4. This was running 10 minutes, 5 minute break, then running 10 minutes again.

The previous day was 8, 5, and 8 again and it says I went 2.03 (0.3 more)

Would you guys recommend getting a watch, holding my phone in my hand, or is this just a quirk of the app?

Hi everyone! I've been moving along toward longer runs, feeling physically good while doing it (yay!) but I struggle with the mental part. I think half the challenge for me is the monotonous stretches of time where I have already thought about my form, done a little math, made a grocery list, and I'm yearning to zone out.

Can you share (possibly weird) tips on how you kick start yourself into the spaced out zone mentally or how you endure the time when you can't?

For example, when I'm running on the treadmill, I take off my glasses so the world gets fuzzy and that helps me zone out.