I need C25K Success Stories w/ Pics - Need Motivation!!!

Am hoping posting this image works...

I started C25K in January (starting weight 200lbs) - and could barely manage the 45 second runs of the first week - I thought my chest was going to explode. I was obese, hadn't run for over 20 years (and even when I ran as a teenager I was rubbish at it) and was seriously unfit. I kept at it and managed to complete it in April (I repeated a few sessions because I found it pretty hard going up until about week 5) and have been running regularly since. I'm now 150lbs and go running 3 or 4 times a week and in the last month have realised that I actually *want* to go running because I enjoy it! My 9 year old daughter joins me on runs some times too and it's brilliant to have a new activity we can do together.

Fantastic such an inspiration, thanks for posting x

I take my German Shepherd with me and she can be ... challenging ... on a lead sometimes! I take her for a walk first so she can do her business before I start the podcast, that way she's happy to trot along side and there aren't any sudden stops (or certainly less!). If anything, she pulls less when we're doing the C25K stuff as she seems to be less bored so I haven't had to use a Halti.

I use a retracting lead so if she wants to go ahead a bit that's fine and I don't have 10ft of lead to trip over. She's been out 8 times now and has quite got into it. I say "go!" and she starts to trot (I'm not fast enough for her to actually have to run ... yet!).

She'll still try and dart after the odd squirrel but usually it's when we're doing the walking sections, when she's trotting she kind of stays focussed on not being overtaken by me so hopefully you'll find the same with your dog.

C25K is great - stick with it and you'll definitely get results. The pic on the left is from July 2011, and I joined MFP in February 2012 at about the same weight. Over nearly a year and a half, I've lost 45 pounds, and for much of the time my main exercise was walking or working up to jogging with C25K, which I only started last fall. The pic on the right is from May of this year from my first 5k. Ran it with a 9:00 minute / mile pace and was in the top 10 of women in my age group. My main cardio exercise is walking and running along with 30DS.

I just finished week 1 day 3 today. I'm 32 yrs old and NEVER ran a mile in my life. I have decided 32 will be the year I become a runner. Thanks for all these stories they are all amazing. I'm hoping to be comfortable in my skin and have heard running will do that for me