Hi Karen
I'm very new here (only my second post) and I'm very new to running. I am following a walking/running programme too, it's called from couch to 5km on the cool running website. It consists of three workouts over a 9 week period. I'm a bit worried that it's going to be too much of a jump for me but I am doing it with two other ladies and need to keep up with them as I probably wouldn't do it on my own. Roughly it goes like this...
Week 1 - 5 min brisk walk warm up then alternate 60 secs of jogging and 90 secs of walking for 20 mins.
Week 2 - 5 min warm up, 90 secs jogging, 2 mins walking for 20 mins
Week 3 - 5 min warm up, jog 90 secs, walk 90 secs, jog 3 mins, walk 3 mins x 2 reps
I'm on week 3 and have workout 3 tomorrow
Next week will be week four for me and that's...
5 min warm up, jog 3 mins, walk 90 secs, jog 5 mins, walk 2.5 mins, jog 3 mins, walk 90 secs, jog 5 mins
and week 5, workout 2 starts off with an 8 minute jog. It seems like a huge jump for me as I am very overweight, seriously unfit and not the most enthusiastic, but I'll give it a go.
Look forward to hearing how you're doing in your programme. Could you tell me where I could see a version of what you're doing please?
Thanks and good luck with the training.