So my wife has been toying with the idea to get into running. After 33 years without doing much sports, she now goes to the gym twice a week and is getting fitter. She mentioned today that she noticed that a half marathon will be held in our city, and that it’d be impossible for her. So I said that …

C25K and the like are used quite frequently. They are usually all based on the same training system but with different UI obviously.

I’ve enjoyed the Nike Run Club app. It will help make training programs for you, and there are lots of great guided runs featuring their head coach, and also lots of other athletes (Shalene Flanigan, Eliud Kipchoge, lots of others) and celebrities that are both engaging and helpful. The head coach (…

She doesn’t know of Strava … yet. I didn’t know the Nike Run app also did structured training. That’s definitely an option, too. It looks well-designed, too.

My wife is using Couch to 5k (costs $2.99) for her first 5k. It’s a 9 week training program. She does she she like me more warm-up. But overal she likes it.

[image] aydraper: She does she she like me more warm-up. ???

Haha. She likes more warmup than the prescribed amount in the workouts!

My wife used an app for the couch to 5k. I can ask her later which one if you want.

Hall Higdon plan and good old pen and paper to check off the progress.

Good apps that help you train for your 5k

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skb November 30, 2019, 11:16am 5

only thing i didn’t like about it is there is no option to sync the run to strava.

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Good apps that help you train for your 5k

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