Our latest Couch To 5Kers absolutely smashed their graduation run at Sale Water ParkRun last week! We had lots of runners from all six of our Couch To 5K groups plus amazing support from lots of our other MileShyers as always! Huge thankyou to everybody that came down!
It’s always amazing to watch new runners grow in confidence week by week, and we love to see the huge sense of achievement that every runner experiences as they cross their first 5K finish line! That’s the best bit about starting in a Couch To 5K group, EVERYBODY has the same hopes and fears. When you do your C25K with us you’ll generally attend one group run a week (though you can attend more if you want to!) and complete two homework sessions throughout the following week. If you stick to the scheduled runs you should be able to run a 5K in just nine weeks. Once you’ve completed the final week of the course there is a graduation 5K at a local ParkRun where all the MileShy community will be out to support. It’s a running party!
All of our Couch To 5K groups have a WhatsApp group chat with all the other runners and coaches so you can ask questions and get advice at any time. You can also use it to arrange to run your homework runs with your fellow runners to keep you motivated. And if there ever comes a time where you may not be feeling quite as motivated to get out there and do it there will always be somebody on hand with words of encouragement that will make you want to go out and get it done.
Our next Couch To 5K programme starts WC 5th September. If you’d like to join to give it a go you can find all the details here. Alternatively, as a beginner runner you can join any of our groups at any time as we always cater for complete beginners (with the exception of our 5K Improvers group on a Thursday night!)
