So because I have taken comfort from reading so many other people's experiences of this beast I'm going to log my own in the hope it helps others
I have followed this programme purely in my local gym on treadmills. This is because I have been getting bad shin pain and I find treadmills easier on my legs. I find treadmills speeds are always different so to give you an idea the initial 5 min "brisk walk" is at speed 5.8-6.3 for me and I have been running at speed 10.
Today I moved up into week 4 and ran the first of the 3 3min run, 5 min run x 2. Shins killing me so got the ice pack on wrapped up in tight bandages. Plan is to do the second run on Saturday and the last week 4 run on Monday. That means week 5 starts on Wednesday (14th) with the 20 min beast the following Monday.
I'm just going to document how things go for me from now until I hit w5r3.
Today's run went well, the 3 min runs are easy for me now (although they didn't use to be haha!) but the last 5 min run was a struggle, I had to knock the treadmills speed down from my usual 10 to 8.5 which was a really slow jog. I am more than confident that Saturday's run will go better though and I'm quite looking forward to w5r1 which is 3 x 5 mins. At this moment I'm actually getting palpitations just thinking about running 20 mins considering how I feel after 5 mins haha.
More this sat assuming my damn shins stop aching so much!
