When you first started... how long could you run for?

I decided that since I'm going on a cruise in 5 weeks... It was time to REALLY throw the diet/exercise into gear... The first 2 hrs of my day this morning were spend in the gym.

After 1/2 hr bike and 1/2 hr elliptical I decided to take my crack at the treadmill... I only lasted 2 minuted on 5 mph before I turned it back down to a walking speed Where did you start? How long did it take you before you could jog a mile without stopping?

You did an hour of cardio work before hitting the treadmill?? That's a lot... try running first next time, I'm not surprised you zonked out earlier than you thought you would.

When I first started, I think I could do about 10 minutes TOPS at 5.5

When I first started years ago, I could jog for maybe 30 seconds. I felt like I weighed ten million pounds. My legs and feet felt like lead weights! But I had a little circle that I ran around the neighborhood, and every day, I just tried to run a little bit more than the day before. It took a whole year before I could jog the entire length. It was about a half a mile. Over the course of the next two years, I added a little more of the neighborhood to my circuit until I was jogging about 2 miles every day.

Now I have completed three half marathons, and I have signed up for a distance challenge this winter to do three half marathons in December, January and February. It only took me 18 years :-)

I could only run for about 20 seconds when I started. I could only walk for about 4-5 minutes. C25k fixed me right up. No I can jog for 28 minutes! :bigsmile:

Agreed. C25K is amazing.

I can't remember the exact date but it was probably back in March/April that I ran a mile without having to slow down to a walk. It was a giant accomplishment for me. First time at Age 42 I had ran a mile since I had to run laps around the ball park for failing to run out a base hit to first in Little League.

In July I ran a 10K but I had to slow down to a walk maybe 4 or 5 times during the race to get my heart rate down to something acceptable.

I have run a 2 competition 5Ks since then, one in August and one in September which was the day after I did the warrior dash.

I can do 6 mile runs now and generally but not always I can do them without having to slow down to walking speed. I have a 5K this month, a 10k and a 5k in november (the 5K is on thanksgiving so I can have pie) and it's my intention to have a monthly race and next november run a 1/2 marathon.

This is all comig slowly. My best 5K time is just under 30 minutes and my best 10K time is just in 1:06:00 but that is not during a race, my best race 10K was just under an hour twenty but I didn't run it the whole way though so I'll improve my race time by just showing up and not walking I'd like to improve on the 1:06:00 I hit on the rails-to-trails recently.

My running times and endurance have been slowly improving. I think the mentality of my fitness may be changing. I was supposed to lift/machines on Saturday and I chose to run instead. I ran last night to try out my first pair of proper running shoes (they rock) and I'm trying to convince myself not to run but lift tonight. I'll probably bargin with my inner voice and run a mile to warm up before I lift and maybe another mile to cool down when I'm done.

I could probably make it about 2-3 minutes before I had to stop. It just takes time. Keep doing intervals of like 2 mins jogging and 3 mins walking for awhile and then gradually up the jogging time and decrease the walking time every so often. It'll get better!

Outside- about 30 seconds. On a treadmill- 1 minute.

I have just started running, at the moment i can run just over a half mile but each time i go out i increase my distance by a block. Im hoping to berunning 5k by the spring:)

30 seconds ! When I started C25K and that was really hard, yesterday, week 6 I ran for 25 mins, which I never thought I'd do!