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Re: Introduce Yourself (please)

hannahdogy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:58:04 GMT

My name is Linda. I live in Sacramento CA and I'll be 50 years old next june. I have never ran/jogged or never thought I would see my self running/jogging I started out doing this becuse my sister in law has breast cancer and I wanted to do something for her. I herd about the Susan K 5k run and thought it would be a good thing to do.

I think now I'm doing it for myself as I'm finding out that I really enjoy it. Today was my W3D2 and I'm looking foward to running the whole 5k.

Re: Introduce Yourself (please)

Kappa1991 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:37:36 GMT

Hi all,

My name is Colleen. I am a 39 year old woman who lives in New York. My husband & I started the c25k program in August. I'm will be starting week 9 this week (we did some weeks 2x). I always thought I would love to run, but could never get myself motivated enough. Now I know, I do love running. I totally enjoy doing my runs, and miss it on my off days. I hope to enter my 1st 5k in the spring (once the weather starts to warm up again.)

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mass girl — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:04:51 GMT

Hi Valerie, My name is Lorie I live in Mass, I started running about 1 and1/2 years ago .Ive always been into exercising but not running. My friend got me into it and I love it.Ive ran a handfull of 5ks and 1 5mile race. I'm running another 5 mile race in a couple of weeks. In feb i'm going to run my first 1/2 marathon in myrtle Beach. I herd its a flat route So I figured It would be a good one to start with. I'm also a mother of 2

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Zabg15 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:47:17 GMT

Hi, my name's Ashley, I'm about to start my week 3 tomorrow. I'm 21, no kids, no marriages and I live in North Carolina. I just got out of the Army, where I actually realy enjoyed running, but as soon as I was almost out and they stopped forcing me to, I stopped completely, and that was about 9 months ago, and so...I'm completely out of shape, and just want to get back into the swing of things.

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eMonkey — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:03:58 GMT

Hello, my name is Andrew, and I am a sofaholic.

I'm a 24 year old computer programmer, living in Northumberland. I took up jogging on the advice of my Taekwondo instructor, and have just completed the couch to 5k plan. I hope to be able to do the Great North Run next year.

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Giancarlo Penninella — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:46:12 GMT

My name's Giancarlo. I'm not completely new to running but I am new to running correctly. I'm not trying to do a 5k but as a ranked soccer referee I am required to do a physical fitness run. Since I healed from my achillies injury I have depleted in my fitness. Each year until I turn 45 I have to run 2200 meters in 12 minutes. I barely made it this year and the previous year, but the following year I would like to run 2400 to maybe 2700 meters by February. I thought about going back to basics and do the from couch to 5K.

Any suggestions welcomed.

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KristenPo — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:51:22 GMT

hello my name is Kristen. I'm 34, married with 2 children 11 and 9. i live in pittsburgh and started running in the spring. love it! I have ran 2 5k races and hoping to do a half-marathon next summer. Just want to add that i love hearing about where everyone is from. Its nice to imagine the different locations and weather temps. It can get really cold here in the winter so i'm hoping that i can stick with it.

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abstract2 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:46:08 GMT

Hi. I am a 38yro mom from Michigan. I tried to start the C25K program last spring,and last summer, and this fall.....I decided this time I would try doing the forum and maybe the support and info would help :8}. My husband and I are blessed with 8 children (20,17,16,13,10,8,7,3). I decided to give it a try again after my 17yro finished a 5k last weekend and I wanted to do it too! I usually start off well, but then life gets busy. I have been running in the morning this week with my 13yro. We decided to do a 5k in Jan.

Re: Introduce Yourself (please)

Michael. — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:35:04 GMT

Hi All,

My name is Mike and I am a runner. I started C25K in Oct 07 and stuck around. I live in Los Angeles CA and am married. I work in Information Technology which has a history of employing people who are stuck to their chairs and never exercise. I have been motivational to my co-workers and four of us now exercise regularly.

My running accomplishments so far include a 5K when I graduated C25K. I then jumped on Hal Higdon's Spring Training program and when I graduated ran in a 10K. Most recently I ran in and amazingly finished the Long Beach Half Marathon.

My next goal is a full marathon which I originally planned on doing in Spring 09 however after running the 1/2 I think I will put on more base miles before I decide to jump into Marathon training. My body took a beating after the last race. It would be better to finish a Marathon strong instead of dragging my body across a finish line.

Run well and avoid injury everyone,

Mike

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kukri — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:52:06 GMT

Hi all!

My name is Jennie. I'm 33 and live in Virgnia Beach. I'm on week 6 of the C25K program. I've never been into sports or running at all until recently and so far still totally hate jogging/running. Seeing the progress as I follow the program is great though. I'm either going to need to learn to enjoy this in the next few weeks or find another training schedule & set of goals to progress through... or both.