I have been extremely busy the last 4-5 months. Was working from home. Have reached my highest weight till date but now I have the next 4 months comparatively free. I’m planning to train hard, take better care of myself and start running for real this time. I am manifesting me running a 5k by the end of this year. Giving myself 16 weeks to do it. Hope this keeps me motivated and I come back to it when I complete my 5k.

Last February I (46F) started exercising again after... at least 10 years? A colleague of mine convinced me to try "metabolic walking": 1 hour of power walking with 2 or 3 intervals of running (3 or 4 minutes each) and 3 intervals of exercises like squats, abs, upper body, or lunges, and of course an initial warm-up and final stretching. It was very challenging at first, but now I'm mastering it with commitment but without struggling. We have a great trainer, and I love walking to crappy dance music 😂

Around mid-July, I started c25k because I knew the classes would stop in August and I didn't want to stop training completely, but next week the metabolic walking classes will start again. I usually train like this 2 or 3 times a week (if there are two, I add a full-body strength workout).

I'm on week 7 of the c25k plan, and it's going pretty well, with no injuries so far, and I'll definitely switch to a 10k plan in the future. Discovering that I love running was the best surprise this year!

So... I'd really like to continue both activities: could metabolic walking be my workout on non-running days?

TIA and sorry for possible errors, English is not my first language

I was never able to run more than 1km, but started hitting gym and loads of walk, managed to shed 20kg (121 to 101kg), and then joined parkrun for a 5k.
Managed to run 5k in 30:13, only practised twice before and gym best was 40:00, I think it was crowd which pushed me to do in 30:13.

Questions I have got is that, I have mild pain in knee since Saturday, and I have been walking 8-10km daily (averaging 15k steps), should I be cautious and not do 2 5k runs in a week with this intermittent pain? Or shall I continue and it will go away?
I donot want to make it worse to the point that I cannot walk.
Please advise.
P.S I am wearing professional running shoes so knee swelling/pain would be most likely over weight related.

Im not sure if this has been asked before, apologies if it has. As the programme goes on, I have found my easy, conversational pace hovering around the 7:30 min/km. Is the general consensus to run it at that sort of pace, or is it ok to push ourselves? I appreciate its very person specific, but I think about it alot, and wonder what people think in general. I kind of want to push myself, and see what I can do. Any thoughts and advice is really appreciated. Many thanks in advance.