Virtual Running Mate
A collection of podcasts to help you start running and most importantly enjoy it
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Episode 24 | Overcoming barriers to you successfully completing your 5K Programme | VRM5K Companion Podcast Series
Today, we'll be exploring the common challenges faced by new runners that may try to get in the way of you completing your programme and sharing with you tried and tested techniques to deal with the…
00:21:16 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
Episode 23 | Our Top Tips To Help You Start On Your 5K Running Journey | VRM5K Companion Podcast Series
In This podcast we share our top tips to help you start off on your running journey. If you are interested in taking up the Virtual Running Mate 5K programme listen to this podcast to arm yourself w…
00:12:33 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 8 day 1
Welcome to the final week of the Virtual Running Mate 5k programme.
Over the last 7 weeks, you have seen your body and mind achieve feats you once thought impossible.
Most of you have run longer than…
00:03:38 |
Sat 18 Apr 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 7 day 2
Welcome to week 7 day 2 of the Virtual Running Mate 5K programme.
Today’s session will consist of a 35 minute run on a 5km route with a 3 minute recovery,
you will then be required to run to the en…
00:43:15 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 7 day 1
Welcome to week 7 day 1 of the Virtual Running Mate 5K programme.
This week, we will be running on a 5K loop so it is important that before you start this session you have 5k route mapped out on wh…
00:44:05 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 6 day 3
Welcome to week 6 day 3 of the Virtual running mate 5K programme.
Today’s session will consist of a 30 minute run with a 3 minute recovery interval.
This will be followed by a 5 minute run with a …
00:50:06 |
Sun 05 Apr 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 6 day 2
Welcome to week 6 day 2 of the Virtual Running Mate, 5K programme.
Today’s session will consist of a 27 minute run with a 3 minute recovery.
This will be followed by a 5 minute run with a 3 minute …
00:46:12 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 6 day 1
Welcome to week 6 day 1 of the Virtual Running Mate, 5K programme.
This week will see us do simpler sets, as you will start running longer. We will make use of days 2 and 3 to slowly build up the t…
00:44:21 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 5 day 3
Welcome to week 5 day 3 of the couch to 5K programme.
Our session today will consist of a mixed set of, a 5 minute run with a 2 minute recovery followed by a 17 minute run with a 4 minute recovery.…
00:44:11 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 5 day 2
Welcome to week 5 day 2 of the virtual running mate 5K programme.
Our session today will consist of a mixed set of, a 5 minute run with a 2 minute recovery followed by a 16 minute run with a 4 minu…
00:43:08 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 5 day 1
Welcome to week 5 day 1 of the virtual running mate 5K programme.
You are now officially over the half way mark, well done.
This week we are going to continue breaking more barriers as we take your…
00:42:35 |
Sun 29 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 4 day 3
Welcome to week 4 day 3 of the virtual running mate 5K programme.
Today’s session will consist of a repeat of the session we did on day one and two, and will consist of a mixed set of a 3 minute ru…
00:46:14 |
Sat 21 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 4 day 2
Today’s session will consist of a repeat of the session we did on day one, and will consist of a mixed set of a 3 minute run with a 3 minute recovery interval. Followed by an 8 minute run with a 5 mi…
00:46:19 |
Sat 21 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 4 day 1
This is the big one. We are going to take advantage of all the great progress you have made over the last three weeks, and push your body a bit more.
This weeks mixed set will consist of 3 minute run…
00:47:15 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 3 day 3
Welcome to week 3 day 3 of the Virtual Running Mate 5K programme.
Today we will be increasing the amount of time you run and spend recovering.
Your body is beginning to get stronger as is your card…
00:50:53 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 3 day 2
Welcome to week 3 day 2 of the Virtual Running Mate 5K programme.
Today we will repeat what we did in day 1 and do a set of 2 minute runs with 2 minute walking recoveries, followed by 3 minute runs…
00:38:34 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Run a 5K in 8 weeks - Week 3 day 1
*NOTE*
Before beginning this session please familiarise yourself with 3 of the following exercises which you will do as part of your warm up. High knees, butt kicks, karaokes, A skips, straight leg …
00:39:08 |
Sat 14 Mar 2020
Run a 5k in 8 Weeks - Week 2 day 3
The final day of week 2 is here and we will be adding a total of 90 seconds to the run you did on day two by adding and extra repeat. These increments may seem small but doing them will make the jump…
00:34:41 |
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Run a 5k in 8 weeks - Week 2 day 2
Day 2 of week 2 will see us repeat the session with carried out on day 1 with an additional repeat. Increasing the number of repeats will help build your endurance and strengthen your respiratory sys…
00:31:50 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Run a 5k in 8 weeks - Week 2 day 1
Welcome to week 2 and this week we are taking it up a notch. We will be running for 90 seconds non stop, which is 30 seconds longer than we did in week 1. We are going to make the most use of days 2 …
00:24:50 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
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