sorry! wrong place!

And so I may say that I graduated this morning, with a leisurely run alongside the beach in Bridgetown, nice warm weather as it was when I started this crazy endeavour nine weeks ago in Singapore. To celebrate the occasion, I made it a full 5k, in 36:03. Lots of sweat but not much huffing and puffing, and also the heartrate is starting to keep lower. A little.

What's up for me now? I guess I'll keep it level for the time being, doing 5k runs until my first official one on 1 June. After that, I want to start with the bridge-to-10k. I started reading "ChiRunning" yesterday, I'll see where that takes me.

So far, I had much much more fun doing this than I expected at the outset. And thanks too to the broad c25k community and resources online!

Keep running,

Axel

After taking a little break (sore leg muscles due to enthusiastic workout) I'm back on the road today. Expecting some difficulties, but running happily. Just a short break to take a photo, I even overran by maybe 10 minutes. Huh.

Getting up at 0500, roads where pretty empty and the wind had blown away the notorious smog, luckily. My plan to circle Tiananmen Square where foiled by other early risers, though.

Frosty morning run today. Yesterday I registered for my first official 5k run, on 1 June. I'm stunned. :-)

W6D3. The locals call it a flat route. Still, more incline than at home in Holland :-)

Yes, it's true, it is possible... :-) Thanks for your encouragement, all. I just returned from running W5D3, the big one, 20 minutes en bloc. No major discomforts, stitches about to come through, but not quite. Muscle in left thigh made itself known, but no cramps. All in all, a nice evening run. Finally I'm content again. Was beginning to worry, didn't run for 4 days due to terribly cold eastern winds, bah! But today, light winds only, blue skies, and sun setting over Schiphol airport.

Optimistically yours,

Axel

Running on an injured little toe, y/n? (This isn't the same toe I mentioned on Friday). I stubbed this toe badly yesterday. I can walk and move it, no numbness or tingling. There is major bruising and slight swelling; definitele strong ache at times, and tenderness to the touch. Since the most "severe" sprain/dislocation/break symptoms aren't present, I'm reluctant to go to the doctor over just a little toe (I have no insurance or anything). Which leaves the running question. I hate to take even a few days off, because I end up really set back. I could *attempt* buddy taping, but my little toes are sooo teeny to begin with, I'm not sure how successful it'd be. (Of all the injuries I've had in my life, somehow a toe isn't one of them).

ETA: I appreciate all the advice telling me to not go to the docs, really, but that was the one decision I'd already made. I was trying to avoid doctor talk :-P

Week 3 was pretty much awful, because of travel and not having a gym where I was. So I ended up doing days 1 and 2 back to back on Sunday and Monday; they were pretty successful, with Monday showing a major improvement over Sunday. But then I had a really exhausting three days away from running. Came back today with an achy toe and felt like a lump on the treadmill. I did the whole W3 run, and actually still did slightly better than the Sunday run (though not as well as on Monday). I have no idea how Week 4 will go, but I figure since I was technically successful this week, I'll forge ahead. I keep expecting to have to repeat a week, but so far that hasn't been the case. That being said, my "jog" is still incredibly slow. My W3 workouts were all less than a mile.

Hey everyone!

I just begin week 1 today. I need loads of good advices to make it to 9 weeks. I am doing 5k in June and I am hoping to be ready for it by doing the Couch to 5K 9-week program. Everyone please feel free to suggest helpful tips. I am really looking forward to completing my 9 week program.

OH! I almost forgot! I am doing the 9-week Treadmill version.
Wish me Luck!

Successfully completed Week 2 today. I'm still trying to actually run every day, though I had to take Tuesday off, and that made my cranky knee tense way up. After doing W2D2 on Wednesday, however, it was happy again. I still feel like moving on to W3 next week is moving too fast, and yet I didn't actually have any real problems completing W2, so, we shall see. Today was a little bit of a struggle, both because I ate too much lousy stuff last night, and didn't have enough water today. So I felt like a lump, and went about a tenth of a mile less, even as I still did the whole program.

Next week is going to be no good, however. I'm traveling all day on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and it doesn't look like my hotel has a gym. Not knowing the area, I'm not quite willing to run outside in the late evening. That leaves Sunday, Monday, and Friday, since Saturday is my rest day. I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with those days (thoughts are welcome), though it will probably mean repeating W3 a second time.