i heartily recommend fetcheveryone, its a spin off from the runners world magazine forums, predominantly for uk users but it does have international ones too, its full of information, in the form of forums, blogs and articals, its a very social website and i've found it really useful over the years. it has some great training tools on there too you can plan your route on maps and import it into your training diary, for more experienced runners who have all the gadgets you can import data from your garmins too. it also has running based games to encourage people to get out for more runs or explore new areas. you can also record other fitness activies too.

Another one for Fetcheveyone.com and Lord Fetch would have your guts for garters if he heard you calling it a spin off from runners world lol

Runners World has a ton of great stuff.

Active.com has useful information as well.

Runners World has a ton of great stuff.

That is a great site/magazine! They have a page dedicated to 5K training:
http://www.runnersworld.com/training-plans/5k-training-plans

To figure out what to wear on your run, try the What to Wear tool:
http://www.whattoweartool.com/

www.therunningbug.co.uk
www.couchto5k.healthunlocked.com
www.womensrunninguk.co.uk

http://sportsci.org

Sport Medicine....for those with injuries or how to prevent

This is a website more for those who are looking to increase speed. I found it when snooping around the marathon group and thought it would be helpful:

http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/

You enter your current race time, along with your goal time and it breaks down what pace your runs should be. It paces your long runs, tempos, hill and sprints. Basically "Running Faster for Dummies". Hahaha!

Here's the "Hey Fat Girl" article. In case you want a good inspirational cry

http://flintland.blogspot.com/2012/05/hey-fat-girl.html

there's a new site, called PhantomRunner (https://www.phantomrunner.com/) that has free weekly virtual races (monthly paid races too). It links with RunKeeper, so you can participate with your smartphone. It's a fun way to stay motivated week in and week out, it's a good way to ease into running if you're just getting started, and it's all free.

In full disclosure, I made the site, but I made it because I'm a runner and wanted to use something like this. I just released it a few days ago and will be making plenty of improvements and modifications in the near future. I hope some of you find it useful and fun!

WEBSITES:
http://www.500lbs2marathon.com/
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/
http://www.active.com
http://www.runnersworld.com
http://www.runnersworld.com/training-plans/5k-training-plans
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/c25k/Pages/couch-to-5k.aspx
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Couch-to-5k-plus.aspx (for C25K graduates)
http://www.whattoweartool.com/
http://www.coolrunning.com/
http://www.therunningbug.co.uk
http://www.couchto5k.healthunlocked.com
http://www.womensrunninguk.co.uk
http://sportsci.org
http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/
https://www.phantomrunner.com/
http://www.runnerskitchen.com/
http://www.c25k.com

ARTICLES:
http://www.besthealthmag.ca/get-healthy/fitness/12-bad-excuses-to-skip-running
http://www.active.com/running/articles/olympian-kara-goucher-s-top-running-tips
http://www.active.com/running/Articles/Running-and-Breathing-A-Lesson-in-Oxygen-Intake-and-VO2-Max
http://flintland.blogspot.com/2012/05/hey-fat-girl.html
http://lifehacker.com/the-biggest-mistakes-runners-of-all-levels-make-and-ho-1030501368
http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/2890

MFP DISCUSSIONS:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/279198-running-tip-so-you-are-about-to-do-your-first-race

While I was gone I found some awesome running groups on Facebook. Run JunkEes Run Club, and Meg's Miles are two amazing support groups in Facebook for running. Both have Facebook groups and have become major running groups on social media.

I am new to discussions and I am trying to find the schedule for this, I would love to start this exercise. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

yirara wrote: »

I use smashrun for uploading my running data to. It's extremely nerdy, consistantly gets new nerdy stuff added, and looks nice. I like it. If you want to you can add me as friend: http://smashrun.com/yirara.ra/invite

Wow that's cool, thanks for the link.

Just started and using zenlabs (the original C25K) free version - man there are a lot of ads and it makes using the app 'in-motion' difficult. Only two days in and I might swap to something else.

For C25K the NHS programme really worked for me from pretty much a no exercise starting point. A good balance of occasional encouragement without being too interrupting. In the early stages 5 minutes seemed a very long time without a hint when actually that was just me struggling and hoping for the end of the run stage.