I cannot jog any longer than 3 minutes

funfitfoodie

WOAH! Are you sure you don't mean 8.5km/h?

Try C25K - its been incredible for me I can't say enough good things about it!

ilsie99

On the plus side, if you can keep that up for 26.2 miles, you qualify for Boston!

peteyTwang

8.5 mph = ~7 minute miles = really damn fast

slow WAY down to a "conversational pace" = a speed at which you can talk to someone without out huffing and puffing

great thread -- and this point in particular wants to make me say HOW? i am still running too fast too and walking to recover hoping to reach that 'conversational' sweet spot and stay there

higgldy_piggldy

8.5 mph is a racing speed.

slow it down to 5.5 -6 mph and work up your endurance. You don't want to bust your knees out. as you are able to run for longer periods of time....THEN you can start adding 1 minute sprints of 8.5 to your running...

I def. recommend C25K. Look for podcasts hat tell you when to run and when to walk.

BryanAir

On the plus side, if you can keep that up for 26.2 miles, you qualify for Boston!

How crazy is it that the winners run at 12.6 MPH for the entire 26.2 miles.

funfitfoodie

On the plus side, if you can keep that up for 26.2 miles, you qualify for Boston!

How crazy is it that the winners run at 12.6 MPH for the entire 26.2 miles.

It's ridiculous! With all the elites running together it doesn't look that fast but then today I was like 'If I run a 10 min/mile and theyre running a 5min/mile THATS TWICE AS FAST AS I RUN.' Blew my mind - I feel like if I put that speed in on the treadmill my legs would be going crazy cartoon style running!

RMinVA

WOAH! Are you sure you don't mean 8.5km/h?

I thought that too....that makes a bit more sense!

And I also am in awe of the elite runners. When I ran my second half marathon the full marathon ran back into the half. The elite runners caught up to me about mile 11...mile 24 or so for them. I'm giving it what little I have left, and they had barely broken a sweat (at least they looked that way!!) and didn't look winded at all. CRAZY STUFF!!

LG61820

I posted a similar problem earlier this year. I couldn't figure out how people keep going when they get all out of breath. Everyone pretty much suggested that I needed to see a doctor;-> I don't think so. What I started doing was sprinting. Now to the average runner (or my 12 year old grandson) it may not look like sprinting but to me it is. I would run half a loop of the parking garage uphill just as fast as I could, walk back and run again. I enjoy that ever so much more than steady pace jogging.

I have found that my endurance and my breath has improved greatly. These days I am sprinting up a little hill on my noontime walk/jog thing.

Now I have to get past the mental block that says, "gosh this is boring how am I going to do this for an hour . . . let's sprint!"

michelletyler38

8.5 is not a jog IMO. I started at a 4.0 then moved up to a 4.2 then a 4.5. Now I can run comfortable at a 5.0 I have short legs though

lklein

I think I would fly off the treadmil at that pace! Slow down I feel a good pace is any where between 5-6mph.

TheIncredibleShrinkingDan

Try doing intervals, so if u can only do 3 mins, do 3 mins jogging, 1 min walking until u need to stop

This is a good way to start but at a slower pace as others have said--like 5 to 6 mph. Run 3x per week.

Wk 1: Run 2 min, walk 1 for 20 minutes.
Wk 2: Run 3 min, walk 1 for 20 minutes.
Wk 3: Run 4 min, walk 1 for 20 minutes.
Wk 4: Run 5 min, walk 1 for 20 minutes.
Wk 5: Run 6 min, walk 1 for 20 minutes.

You get the idea. You don't have to use these exact numbers but alternate jogging and walking until you can jog for 20 minutes. Then work your way up to 30 minutes.

A book by Glover and Shepard called, "The Runner's Handbook : The Bestselling Classic Fitness Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Runners" has a program like this along with all the info a beginner could want.

If you have a smart phone the 5k running programs seem to be really popular.

aleeroley

Get off the treadmill and get on the road! You'll enjoy your run so much more, soak up some sun, and have a more efficient workout. Treadmills rob your muscles of the "pullback phase". So, get outside in the fresh air, keep a constant and steady pace for long distances, and mix it up a bit with sprinting days...give it your all!

liveinbliss

I sprint at 8 and consider that my max speed. I run at 5.0!

iplayoutside19

I'm definitely interested in learning more about this. I'd like to be able to run and jog but I breathe so heavily so soon after starting and it gets really bad even where the nose will start running I went to the doctor and they didn't seem to think anything was wrong with me or out of the ordinary, granted I couldn't get them to run any tests on me. They just prescribed a basic generic inhaler that doesn't do much. Maybe I am just that out of shape? even in high school I was never able to run the mile like the other kids. Any tips or information on this would be so helpful.

Thanks for asking the question parisianskies002

Everyone has pretty much answered the original question. When I run, my nose runs quite often. If I'm outside by myself I'm constantly launching snot rockets, mostly I just wipe it on my shirt. It's soaked from sweat anyway.

You may think it's gross, but running isn't pretty sometimes.

As for the breathing..slow down enough that you get in a rythym. And I highly recoment C25K.