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Sounds like the best bet is going to be to focus on a half for now, and ramp up to a full later on. This was a training program for a half I had found earlier today: http://runkeeper.com/fitness-class/running-half-marathon/7 I notice it has a lot of speed-type workouts mixed in there though. Is this a good schedule to…

I'm assuming the average mile times get better as you get more total miles done? I trained specifically for the 5k back in high school, so it was a lot of speed workouts, and obviously that dropped my mile times quite a bit on the longer runs. I want to drop my times, but at the same time want to keep building up my weekly…

So I've been doing a LOT better since I had first posted this. I've been able to run 3.3 miles without stopping, with an average mile pace around 9:30. Over the weekend, was able to run 5 miles at around a 9:50 pace without stopping as well. I've been looking into some training programs. My overall goal is to finish a…

So I've dropped down to five days a week. I use Tuesday and Friday as my off days. If I can do five days a week and still feel good, I'll go ahead and start running on Tuesday again. Still having to stop on my 3.3 mile runs, but I'm noticing that it's a little less frequent now. My pace is still hovering around 10:45 for…

Awesome, thanks man! Glad to hear that I'm not an odd one out on this, that's what really had me worried. I'm actually probably going to be scaling back the days, like you had suggested. Tuesday and Thursday nights are already busy for me, so I might use those as rest days, rather than running Saturday through Thursday…

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks a ton for the advice. I actually went out and ran a 5k yesterday after work, and feel great today. A little sore, but it's definitely not a bad-sore or anything like that. I'm actually looking forward to getting back out there again, most likely tomorrow.