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    So you want to start running

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    • Posts: 111 Member
      This is excellent! Thank you!
    • Posts: 61 Member
      Awesome advice! Thanks so much!!
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    • Posts: 152
      Thank you for this thread.
    • Posts: 19 Member
      In for later.....Thank you!
    • Posts: 38 Member
      Bump!
    • Posts: 7 Member
      This was very useful, thanks!
    • Posts: 30 Member
      Can you be too overweight to run safely? I am 40 lbs overweight with a slight knee issue yet since dropping 10 lbs already that last time I ran on the treadmill I had no pain. I am 49 and just don't want to injure myself. Should I wait until I lose more?
    • Posts: 30 Member
      The post by the way was amazing and so inspiring!
    • Posts: 61 Member
      Bump for later!
    • Posts: 36 Member
      I'm about 60 lbs overweight (number completely arbitrary - that's how much I have to lose to match what my driver's license says) and I just make sure to stretch before and after and not push things too hard - if it hurts I stop until it doesn't anymore and maybe ice my knees down for a while.

      At the moment I'm averaging about 3.5 mph which is crazy slow but I can jog steadily for 3 miles on the treadmill and a little over a mile and a half on the evil hills in my town, whereas earlier this spring I could manage maybe 3 minutes before I had to stop and walk. The number on the scale hasn't dropped as much as I would have thought, but the inches sure have come off.
    • Posts: 7 Member
      Bump. Great Info
    • Posts: 84 Member
      why is running such a thing?

      puts on shoes- goes out side... runs.

      Why are we over thinking EVERYTHING. it's running.

      that being said- great post/write up.

      We need this because some of us don't have the capacity to run to the mailbox and back. A good guide on how to get started, and good advise is always a +. You should never think just because you know the information or you can accomplish something..... everyone else can.
    • Posts: 238 Member
      Bump.

      I needed to read this. Very Informative.
    • Posts: 102 Member
      Bump
    • Posts: 1,974 Member
      show previous quotes

      We need this because some of us don't have the capacity to run to the mailbox and back. A good guide on how to get started, and good advise is always a +. You should never think just because you know the information or you can accomplish something..... everyone else can.
      Actually it isn't just running. Many people do it in so many ways of wrong that you can't even count them. There's the right way to put huge stress on the body and there most certainly is the wrong way, too. Every time I go out for a run, I see textbook examples of how NOT to do it.

      Look at for instance the video "Proper running form" on Runner's World and you'll start noticing all the things that many runners keep doing incorrectly, thereby putting their bodies at risk as well as denying themselves of the option to perform even better.
    • Posts: 2,081 Member
      Bump for me
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      bump
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      Bump
    • Posts: 237 Member
      Thanks for all the advice and info. I'm going to try C25K, and see if I like it after a few weeks. If so, I'm going to sign dh and myself up for a 5K in the fall, and surprise him! (He loves to run but knows that I don't. At least, maybe I don't. I think I'm ready to give it a try. I'm stronger and in better shape than I've been in the past, and getting stronger, so who knows?)
    • Posts: 483 Member
      I'm a newbie runner this year but I bet I can find info I need to know here.

      Will read later but thanks for taking the time to post this
    • Posts: 27
      Great info, thank you.
    • Posts: 447 Member
      Great thread :) thanks :)
    • Posts: 92 Member
      Bump, thanks for this post!
    • Posts: 800 Member
      Looking forward to reading and getting some good tips!
    • Posts: 39 Member
      Thank you so much for a very helpful and informative post for us beginners!:flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 104 Member
      bookmarking for later -
      thank you so much! I am so new to this running lark doing couch 2 5 k, and there is some really helpful stuff here :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 117 Member
      Pretty excited as this gives me an excuse to buy yet ANOTHER pair of new fitness shoes - just thinking of trying to add some running into my 'rest' days for cardio - am a total newbie - so this was great help :)
    • Posts: 61,406 Member
      This thread should be a sticky here in F&E
    • Posts: 1,282 Member
      This thread should be a sticky here in F&E

      +1

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