Just ran the last training of my one hour program. The weather was fantastic, rather cold, and a little haze, but the rising sun made every tree glow.

Hi All ~ I am still around, just been busy lately! It seems pretty quiet around here! I am plugging away at Week 5 of OHR. Last night's 30 minute run turned into a 'fartlek' type of workout at the track. NOthing too formal, I just played with my speed a little, ran fast when I wanted to, recovered or even walked when I needed to. I included some bleacher runs too just to work my legs a bit. It was a great workout! After I ran the bleachers, I felt 'faster' when I returned to the track. Very cool. Now I 'get' what hill training is for. Today I will cross train with a long walk, and tomorrow's run will just be a regular old easy run for 34 minutes. And then the 'long run' on the weekend, 38 minutes...which will be a bit like my 5K race except I will be running easier! Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know I'm still at it!

Hi All ~ I am still around, just been busy lately! It seems pretty quiet around here! I am plugging away at Week 5 of OHR. Last night's 30 minute run turned into a 'fartlek' type of workout at the track. NOthing too formal, I just played with my speed a little, ran fast when I wanted to, recovered or even walked when I needed to. I included some bleacher runs too just to work my legs a bit. It was a great workout! After I ran the bleachers, I felt 'faster' when I returned to the track. Very cool. Now I 'get' what hill training is for. Today I will cross train with a long walk, and tomorrow's run will just be a regular old easy run for 34 minutes. And then the 'long run' on the weekend, 38 minutes...which will be a bit like my 5K race except I will be running easier! Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know I'm still at it!

Good job, Cyndi. I've updated you on the OHR chart. Enjoy your long run this week-end.

Hello everyone, hope you don't mind if I hop back in the group. After completing my 5K at the end of August I've returned to the couch for 2 months I told myself it was because of my shin splints but there isn't a real good excuse for being as much of a slug as I was. Anyway, the good news is that I got my new custom orthotics yesterday and rejoined the gym so I went on my first run in over 2 months last night! I realized I had lost a lot of fitness in those two months, so I'm jumping back into C25K at W4. I would like to finish C25K again this year and then move on to HH Spring Training so that I can run a 10K next year.

Well, just tried doing W8D2 on a treadmill as I have just joined the fitness club at work. Did the full 28 mins no problem and I set the page to 7.0. I reckon this was 7km/Hr so it was a bit slower than the usual pace but felt fine. I did get bored though how do you guys keep 'interesting' thoughts in your head? I tried to imagine where I was on my usual route at any given time but it was hard from that point of view.

wk 4 down.. wk 5 up next!