I started running in early Jan and went out walking/running on 7 ocasions over the first 2 week, until my knees started complaining. I've rested for about 2 weeks now and am just thinking about getting back out there, once my new shoes arrive(due any day now). Encouragement needed to try again!
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Most of us started off the same way as you, and some have carried onto Marathon distance. Whatever your aim is, try and pick a run that you want to do in the future. Then you'll have a goal to focus on.
If it's a popular one, then there will be loads of Forumites around to chat to.
Rest awhile it will be OK, I went on to do the FLM. From Nothing to marathon runner in 16 weeks!!
All the best!!
Or maybe we all just develop a pain threshold????
;-)
I started running 4 weeks ago, so far my shins have ached, my feet hurt, my lungs burnt, my heart hammered, my feet have gotten hot, my back complains and I've sweated buckets. It wasn't untill yesterday that i actually ran without anything hurting.
At least somthing different hurt each time, hopefully soon none of it will. I think it's just the body getting used to all this wierd motion.
Anyway stick with it, i'm sure it'll get better !
all that work you have already done will make re-entry to running so much easier.
take it easy, take it steady, try to enjoy every step you take.
you are already a runner, its just a matter of building on the foudations you have started to lay down - let us know how it goes...
I went out on Tuesday and forgot to set the timer, and ended up running 4 mins/walk 1 min.
still a big hill to climb to actually do the kind of running I'm looking forward to, but boy did it feel good yesterday when I realised I'd doubled the amount of time I could run!
Smeg - you know that you'll feel great if you just make yourself go, no matter how long / how far ......
And this is what I'm going to try to remember tomorrow, when its cold, dark and I'd rather be doing a million and one things instead of running for a whole 4 minutes!!!
At some magic point--after weeks of not being able to do more than 10 mins a time--you suddenly realise WHOO HOOO!!! I CAN RUN! I CAN DO IT!!
The next day, of course, you couldn't make it to the corner shop if you had a gun to your head.
This is perfectly normal. The knack is to find something interesting to think about, not worry too much when bits of your body stop working (stopping to tie your shoelaces and gasp for breath is ok, and so's walking) and just, basically, to get on with it. Because nothing, absolutely nothing, compares with the quiet satisfaction of knowing that you can, when you feel like it, head out for a nice six mile run . . . or ten . . . or twelve . . .