u/grayce_fayce

Hi all, I’m wondering if there is something I’m doing wrong or if I just need to push through. I’m currently doing the 5K runner, so a similar version to the c25K and I’m at 5r3w/8r5w/5r. I can get through the first 5r without much issue it feels like my legs warm up and I’m in a good spot. When I try to then do the 8r my calves are so tight it’s uncomfortable to run even though that wasn’t an issue earlier. I then will end up walking a good chunk of the 8r and then become discouraged for the rest of the run.

I am stretching my calves randomly throughout the days, and I am doing warmup stretches but I haven’t been able to find any dynamic stretches that seem to really focus on calves? They are almost immediately fine after my run and post run stretching.

Is this just a normal calf pain and I just need to push through mentally? Or is there something I should be doing? I have good shoes so that shouldn’t be an issue. My only other guess is I don’t bring water since it’s 2 miles?? Should I be?

Hey folks, wanted to get some opinions. I started the 5K runner, essentially the C25K system of running 3 days a week to get into running a 5K.

I just completed week 3 and 2 weeks ago my husband was sick so I had skipped the Friday run to care for him and our child. I now am essentially running the “last” day of the week on Monday, and starting the next week on Wednesday since I’m doing mon/wed/fri.

I can only run on Mon-Fri since I do it during my lunch break and my kid is at daycare. Do folks think I could do mon/tues/thurs/fri to get back on track of being on the “correct” week? Or do you think it doesn’t actually matter when my weeks “end”?