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

When I first started it took me 55 minutes to "walk" 2 miles. I just kept increasing a little daily. Now I walk run and can do 2 miles in 30 minutes.

When I started running on the treadmill, my speed was 4.3 mph and I think I lasted a whole 30 seconds. That was about 2 years ago. Now I run about 5.7-6 mph outside (can't stand running on the treadmill except sprints) and ran 4 miles yesterday.

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:

when I started I was told by a long time runner to do a 30/30, 30 seconds run, 30 seconds walk...and I was DYIN!!

also, I started on the tread mill at 3.5, hard core walk, on varriable height.

up until about three months ago, barely 20 seconds! I now run 3-5 miles, three times a week. Couch to 5k is brilliant.

I'm doing C25K at the moment. Three weeks ago, running for 60 seconds (at a very slow jog!) was TOUGH. Yesterday I did a couple of 3-minute stints. It's a few more weeks til I'll be able to run a mile without stopping at all, but I know I'll get there...

I've gone through periods where I could only run 2 minutes at 5.5mph on the treadmill. Now I can do 32 minutes at 6.0, and I probably could go longer but I've never tried running more than a 5K.

I never did C25K or anything. I built up my cardio endurance with group fitness classes at the gym, and when I could go all out in a cardio kickboxing class for the full hour, I decided I'd hop on a treadmill and see what I could do. 25 minutes no problem, and building it up since then has been fairly easy.

Stick with the running if you like, it gets easier the more you do it. Just remember that whatever exercise you settle on, it needs to be fun for you!

I could only run for 2 mins at 7kph, and it really hurt, felt it in my lungs, my legs. My face was on fire and my heart pounding, I even felt like I was going to throw up. Now I can run for half an hour at 8kph and am trying to get my speed up slowly so I can run 5k in under 40 mins. I don't get as much pain now, instead I feel like I've run out of energy rather than my legs are going to drop off an my heart explode.

Oh, I can now also walk up 4 flights of stairs without dying, that was a surprise NSV the other day

I think I made it to 6 minutes at 5 mph before I had to slow down to a walk. That was in July. Now I run 5K on the treadmill every other workout, and I'm chasing down my goal of doing it in less than 30 minutes (I'm 30 seconds away from my goal!). Give it time. Eventually, your body will accept that you're not trying to kill it, LOL. I was fortunate enough to have my husband cheering me along the whole way ("Wow, you ran for 10 minutes straight! That's awesome!"). Add me, if you want.

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!