Natcatvet

first time since starting just couldn't finish. The last 5 min segment running was horrible - ran out of juice, sore legs, breathing all out of whack. So disappointed as had been travelling quite nicely. Gonna wait 2 days and repeat early Saturday morning. Don't know what went wrong today.

Great to hear someone like me finished! It's hard to imagine I'll get there but I'm taking one session at a time. Well done to you

I was also same boat jan worried as older (47), never run, overweight. My view has been keep jogging just slowly slowly slowly - repeat a day if you need no drama. I My routine is I do my session, next 1-2 days I walk only, the next session 1-2 days from previous run to let the leg muscles recover. Works for me - currently finished week 4 day 1 with difficulty so will repeat this day.

Ok has been better since I use the padlock and lock it

Thanks will check one out

Hey Jeshi actually I surprised myself! The day 2 and 3 were fine. Started week 4 yesterday morning and the second 5 min segment was tough! Hoping that gets easier day 2 and 3 also! How is your progress going

Hey Jeshi actually I surprised myself! The day 2 and 3 were fine. Started week 4 yesterday morning and the second 5 min segment was tough! Hoping that gets easier day 2 and 3 also! How is your progress going

Ok thanks guys onto week 4 and turtle pace for a minute at the last run segment but I did it. Slow and steady for sure

anyone recommend a certain running mag for newbies starting to run?

My first 5 minute segment finished and surprised me! However I struggled with the second 5 min segment and the last minute of that my jogging was as slow as walking I think! I'm sure as someone said, a lot of barriers to starting running are in my brain ...... Looking forward to wk 4 day 2 in a couple days though

Great job ! I hope you are right, I'm starting week 4 tomorrow morning so I've got a long way to go

I just finished week 3 and honestly day 1 I failed because I had to walk 20 sec of the first 3 min block, but I completed day 2 and 3 easily - and I run like a turtle in peanut butter too! I'm nervous about week 4 but it seems everyone just takes it slow with the tips to make sure you have rest days and DONT WATCH THE CLOCK OR TIMER! Put on good music. Good luck

Going from 3 min runs to 5 mins ...... Heck hope I don't fail ! Have been feeling great to this point never been a runner before. I can't even contemplate those of you on the 20 min segments

I'm a newbie but appreciate your replies and advice! Thanks !

Following this

Good luck guys I'm new to running, 47 overweight but I'm on week 3 . The support here is awesome you can do it we just need some positive thinking. Wishing you great on your journey

Update wk 3 day 1 - disappointed could not make the first 3 min run block and walked the last 20 sec, but I did manage the second of the 3 min run segment. Hoping the day 2 I complete it fully .

I'm starting week 3 tomorrow I'm not into the addicted phase yet :/-

Thanks Trish I'll let you know how I go !

Nervous as just finished week 2 and now it seems week 3 has 3 minute running blocks. Doubting I can do this - how hard did people (non runners) find this increase?

Thanks for that Steve I'll look for that at my next session

Hi, I'm pretty new, finished week 1 last week and have been doing week 2 runs this week. For my Week 2 and Day 2, I wasn't looking at my phone at all, but it seemed it "skipped" a couple of the 90 second runs and 2 min walking segments, and I didn't hear it go into the cool down phase. Can the programme "skip" over parts of it accidentally? Or am I missing something obvious? I repeated the day 2 next day it seemed fine. Wondering if I accidentally hit a button in my pocket or something? Thanks in advance.

You can do this! There's heaps of us newbies and its great we can all share this journey together. Keep us updated on progress. Nat.

Thanks

hey guys I'm a bit IT dumb but how do you get your profile pic to show up (instead of it being blank?). Thanks in advance