what stops beginners
Week one is easy. Week three is where people vanish.
- The plan tells you the intervals, not what to do at 7 p.m.Nine weeks, three sessions, pace tables. None of it covers the evening when the shoes are by the door and you are looking for a reason.
- The first skipped day costs nothingThat is the whole problem. Long-time streak runners describe it the same way: miss once and missing the next day gets easier, and nobody is there to see either one.
- You argue with yourself before every runPeople who have done this for years say the negotiation takes more out of them than the run does. Deciding once, in writing, in the morning, is cheaper than deciding at the door.
how it runs
Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
before you sign up
Reasonable questions
Do I have to run every single day?
No. The daily task is yours to set, and a rest day written as the day's task counts as a day you showed up. We count reports, not mileage.
Do you give me a training plan?
No. You bring the plan or the app you like, or you start with ten slow minutes. What we run is the daily structure and the group around it.
I cannot run a minute without stopping. Is that a problem?
No. Walk-run is a task like any other. The programme is indifferent to your pace and interested in whether the report arrives.
How long does a day take?
As long as your three tasks take. Most people write a day that fits into twenty to forty minutes, evening report included.
When does the next group start?
Groups begin on a fixed date so everyone counts the same hundred days. Leave an email and we tell you the next one.
how it runs
Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
the shape of it
What a hundred days from zero tends to look like
Mostly learning to write tasks you can actually finish. Ten slow minutes beats a session you skip.
Mostly learning to write tasks you can actually finish. Ten slow minutes beats a session you skip.
The novelty is gone and the weather has turned. This is the stretch the group is for.
A hundred written days behind you, and running is a thing you do rather than a thing you keep meaning to start.
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The roads a hundred days run on
Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of running.
The plans are free. The showing up is the part that is missing.
what we can point at
The NHS Couch to 5K programme is free: nine weeks, three runs a week, audio coaching. Plenty of people here use it as their plan while the hundred days hold the habit.
sourceStrava analysed over 31.5 million global January activities and put the mass drop-off on the second Friday of January, which it calls Quitters' Day.
sourceFigures are quoted from the sources linked beside them. Where we have no verified number, we show none.
The next hundred days start soon
Leave an email and we will tell you when the group opens. Nothing is charged on this page.
- Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
- A group that reads your log and notices when it stops
- A hundred days counted from a fixed start date
One email, when the next group starts.
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