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some great replies thanks, someone mentioned me not training for the 5k. I need to point out it was not a 5k race just my 1st run lear my home, I just mapped out a 5k route near my home using Nike+ running on my iphone 5 by cycling it then ran it next day. I like to do the same thing over and over so I can compare progress…

Thanks for the replies, just signed up to runners world and had a look at parkrun.org but they don't have any events near me (I am in North Wales and the nearest is Aberystwyth. There is a 10k in Abersoch June 1st but I won't be doing a 10k that soon. I'll do any 5k right now.

Thanks again for the replies, both of which were really helpful. I did start off doing 3 workouts... 30mins recumbent bike 30mins Cross trainer 30mins recumbent bike but I found this week that I can push a bit more doing 60mins instead of 90 and in fact the weight has started dropping quicker this week as a result. Also my…

Hi, Thanks for your reply, 51 bpm seems low to me though? I'm not worried about it, just the opposite but I have a hard time understanding why it's low when I am overweight and only just starting with my cardio. If I look around the web for charts on HR they ALL class someone with a resting HR of 51 as an Athlete??? Also…