C25K Week 2 round up

A crisp and clear winter morning captured by runner Martine Stimpson.

Well it was a beautiful morning for our second session so it was lovely to be out along the river. Unfortunately the cold brought ice on the road sections and meant parkrun was cancelled for safety. A good decision as it really was dangerously slippy on the lock.

Of course us C25Kers are made of tougher stuff so we carried on regardless, just staying in the meadow where it was a bit safer.

There was some mild chaos when some of the braver parkrunners, who had decided to run anyway, came hurtling past us on the river path. At one point I couldn't tell who was a C25ker and who was a parkrunner. Still we managed to negotiate the narrow footpath and continued off across the field where I confused everyone again by turning us around!

All of our runners did brilliantly again and there was plenty of chat to go with the running.

Feedback

We always welcome feedback so that we can make the sessions better for you, so if there is anything you are having trouble with or think could be improved, do let us know. Either on the day in person, or by email whenever you want. It is a bigger group than we had expected so we are learning too!

Session 2

As a reminder this is what we did:

• 5 minute brisk walking with swinging arms.
• (90s running + 2 minutes walking) x 6 (21 minutes).

Have you done your homework!

Session 3

Our next session will be:

• 5 minute brisk walking with swinging arms.
• (2 minutes running + 90s walk) + (3 minutes running + 3 minutes walking) x 2 (19 minutes)

The register

We will meet by 8:40 on Saturday. Don't forget to check in with us so we can keep a track of who is there for each session. If you think you may not have done that last week could you drop us a line. I just don't want to miss anyone!

Looking forward to seeing you Saturday!

C25K Week 1 round up

A big well done to our new c25kers who braved the cold and snow to join us for session one.

The weather completely took me by surprise as I was confidently telling someone only the day before, that we wouldn't get snow!

It didn't stop us and after a bit of standing around to complete paper work and to go through the health and safety checklist, we set off across the meadow.

Everyone did extremely well and there was plenty of chatting. We managed to get right around the big meadow before the parkrun speedsters came blasting past us on their way to the finish. Oh to be that fast!

We all made it around in one piece and hopefully no one found it too difficult. We will always make sure that no one gets left behind as there will be some runners who are faster than others. The whole idea is that you progress at your own pace just in the company of others!

I suggest that, if you have handed your forms in, you should aim to arrive for 8:45 next week so that there will be less waiting around to get started. We'll be there from about 8:30 for those who have questions or forms to hand over.

I really hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did! Looking forward to seeing you all again next week.