Hello! Welcome!
It’s been over a month since my last post. It’s been over 4 years since I started this blog on my quest to record my Couch-to-5K progress. It was meant to be both a public and personal journal of what it took to get through those 9 weeks, and I got some feedback from readers during that time. There have been over 7,700 visits to the blog since, and I’m wondering if any of you are still out there.
If you have read through this blog and it has helped you in any way, please…let me know. Comment here. Let me know how you’re doing on the Couch-to-5K (C25K) plan or weight loss, adding exercise to your routine in general or whether the C25K changed anything in your life. I’d like to have a conversation and talk about things that might be bothering you or encouraging you about this plan, and it could help others to make that decision to try it. It’s been a while, but you might just teach me something I hadn’t learned in my own trek through those weeks when I was doing the workouts. Maybe the conversation will switch to something else. That’s okay, too.
If you need a refresher and it’s been a while since you came across this blog, peruse the weeks…they’re listed at the top and to the right. Thanks!
Have a happy and healthy day!
~ Shannan
UmmAutumn said,
March 1, 2013 @ 10:12 pm
I keep saying I am going to do it. First I needed shoes… next I needed time… now I need an I pod for the signals. I know I just need to GET OUT There!! This is really encouraging thanks! Glad I came across it.
Shannan R. said,
March 2, 2013 @ 6:01 am
Hi UmmAutumn!
Thanks for commenting! I’m so happy to hear that this blog helped you. I had trouble with little things like getting the “right” shoes and making sure I had the podcast I used, etc, and in the end, it does come right down to just starting. When you feel that urge to do it, be ready for that ahead of time, and it’ll be that much easier to start. The running gets easier over time, it really does. There’s hard work to it if it’s new to you, but you accomplish a lot in a short time if you choose to follow the layout of the C25K.
Any complaints I make to myself while I’m running usually are just my head trying to come up with excuses to stop. Boredom, doubt, even accomplishment and not believing I’m actually doing it, can interfere. Have a plan and do it from start to finish. If you think to yourself that you’re going to do whatever your goal is and then so many minutes later you’ll be done, you’ll end up better for it, especially mentally.
~Shannan