I want to become a runner!

so i just started today - the couch to 5K plan.  i was always bored with the podcasts out there, i needed something to tell me when to run and when to walk.  i found a site that has all 9 weeks laid out with different playlists.  (google Suz's couch to 5k playlist).  i did the first one today and it was good!  a bit of language - music is a bit too hip hop for my liking - but the other weeks look better.  hope this helps!

I like that advice.  Play mind games with myself.  I am very good at those so that could work! Thanks.

When I started running, I couldn't think of the end goal of running for, say, thirty minutes because it would feel overwhelming. I would tell myself I only needed to run for two minutes. When two minutes passed, I would tell myself that I only needed to run two more minutes. I would eventually be done. Mind games work!

You are so out of my league!  A mini-triathlon?  Wow, Very impressed!  I just started the treadmill today after about a year of little to no exercise and am so thrilled that I lasted 20 minutes!  But watch me, I'll be running in no time!  :)  Thanks for your comments!

I feel really strongly that people who run are in really good shape.  I've always been active with walking, yoga, blah, blah, blah but only until you run do you know the kind of shape you are in.  I recently signed up to do a mini-triathlon with a friend. The swimming and biking are totally painless, it's the running that sucks but this goal is making me do it.  I did about three miles yesterday and when I got home I said to my husband "I am so out of shape" but at least it's a start.  There's no place to go but up - thanks for the post!

I have NEVER wanted to be a runner.  Gross!  I just want to be thin. 

lol

I was just humoring you guys.   lol  We're all in this together.

It's funny cuz I am always driving by someone jogging and in my head, I am so jealous of their drive, not to mention their bodies.  I think we can do this!

thanks for the tips!  Will be checking that out!

Thank you for your comments!  I was wondering if anyone was even reading this!  LOL  I'll be following you too :)

         I am so happy to read this. I thought I was the only one sitting around thinking"I want to be a runner". Funny. I am going to look up this plan, thanks.    

  angie                           rosieandthebutcher.com

About 7 weeks ago I decided I wanted to start running and I was in pretty bad shape. I never thought I could be a runner because everytime I tried running my body was angry with me for days and days afterward. My husband told me about a running plan he saw on the internet and it has almost made me a runner (I am up to 2.5 mi/3x a week). To find the program just do a google search for Couch to 5k Running Plan. It starts with jogging for 60 seconds and then walking for 90 seconds and you work your way up to miles of running. I am amazed at how quickly I have gained strength and the relatively low pain I have experienced from the program. Hopefully soon I will have the lean body of a runner, until then I will keep pounding the pavement working my way up to the 5 k!

Monica, you have my complete sympathy!  I was always a pretty average weight, but went off the rails after my husband died and I got a job where I sat all day.  Add nightly 'treats' of rum and cokes and hello to 80 pounds in one year.

Fourteen years later I cannot get rid of it.   I started my blog as a weight loss support blog.  I ended up going in a completely different direction, one that turned out to be good, but I am still miserable at this weight.

You are an inspiration just as you are, sweetie!  We all have to just keep plugging away at it. 

One technique I have used (albeit unsuccessfully), I try to remember how embarrassed I feel.  I had surgery last week and my last conscious memory was of the staff struggling to get me onto the operating table.  They had to put a tube down my throat because of my weight.   Those things make me feel like crying, but they don't get me to the gym. :(

I will follow your blog and we will encourage each other!  Perhaps just thinking about running will get rid of some calories?  lol

Marie

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