C25K Week 01 Completed
Posted on January 21st, 2008 by AndrewE
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I’ve completed week 01 of the Couch to 5K program.
This week I have had to do 3 sessions of:
Firstly, a brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then 8 rounds of alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking. Then a five-minute cooldown walk.
So far it has been relatively easy. The podcasts I mentioned in my previous post really help.
I’m hoping to stick with it for the whole nine weeks and actually manage to do the 5km. Actually, I’m not hoping. I WILL stick with it. 
Well done, you!
Thanks Marshmallow.
Good job Andrew! Nice to knock off thos milestones.
What pace are you running at? One of the things I am finding with this program is that if you follow the minute plan then you can find yourself completing a stage, but you really aren’t on pace to get to a full 5k when you get to the end. So one of the things I think you need to plan for is to increase your pace so that when you do get to that last week where you have to run for 30 minutes that you actually would run a full 3 miles. I am not yet up to that pace myself.
Just something else to consider! Good luck…
Thanks for the tip! I’m running on a treadmill at the gym so I’ve adjusted my pace to 10km per hour. That way once I do 30 mins I’ll be able to do 5km.
Once I can do the full 5km I am thinking of running to the gym and back.
But that’s at least 8 weeks away eh!
Running to the gym and back… from home? Wow!