5K Run - Couch to 5K Walk/Jog

Vandersoft

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Use the 5K Run app to improve your stamina, endurance, and health to help you run a 5K! Your body's strength will gradually increase over time with the 'interval training' method.

Over the next 8 weeks your running will be steadily improved. You will start with 1 minute jogging intervals in-between 1.5 minute walks. As you complete runs your body will be strengthened and the program will slowly become more challenging. You will be on your 5K run before you know it!

Take your device with you on your runs! Listen to your favorite music and get prompted over your headphones to run or walk. Your entire 5k run will be directed through your headphones or speakers.

Glancing at the app while on your run will show you:
✔ How long you have been running
✔ How much time you have left on your run
✔ How much time you have left on your current interval

Need to stop and tie your shoe? Pause 5K Run! Or, press Back/Next to go to different intervals.

5K Run Features:

✔ Use outside or on a treadmill
✔ Play your music while training for your 5k - the coach will chime in over your music
✔ Use with any music app
✔ Running plan overview - look ahead and see future runs
✔ Run interval controls
✔ Easy way to run a 5k
✔ Trainer tells you when to run, walk, warmup and cooldown
✔ The best & most effective 5K training app
✔ Great way to boost your cardio and get you ready for your first 5k race!
✔ A great 5K trainer for beginners

Ratings and reviews

For the most part I like using this app. It makes ramping up your run easy and I like that it tracks your progress over time. I gave only four stars because: 1. Since upgrading to pro, I can't turn off the voice announcements during the run. In the free version I could turn the volume down to vibrate. 2. If you want to pause the run, for example to change a setting, the app won't let you without canceling the entire workout and erasing your progress. I'd change to 5 stars if these get fixed.

I came to this app cautiously, unsure if I could follow the schedule and if the program would actually work for me. I decided to only run 2x/week because 3x seemed daunting. I love this app! It was very approachable for me and I really fed off of the "You're doing great! You're halfway there!" from ole automated voice. I worried that the tracking was off so cross checked it with the Strava app. Distance tracking was accurate on my phone. Really can't go wrong with this app.

False advertising! This app says free but doesn't track route or mileage without an upgrade. There is only a time that tells you when to warm, run, walk, cool down. It only gave one cryptic window with the distance run in meters at the end of the run that you have to dismiss and it never appears again! And you can't even see the distance again without upgrading. I would give this app a zero but I'll be kind and give it a 1. I will be uninstalling this lame app and trying to find another that actually does what any runner wants WITHOUT an upgrade.

What's new

- Bug fixes and performance improvements

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