I'm so glad y'all are doing so well. I seem to have hit a wall at 20minutes. I don't know what that's about, but the 25 minute run kills me every time. I wind up walking for at least a minute.

It doesn't help that I went to that google maps pedometer thing where you can map your route and find the distance. =( Very disappointing to find out that my total distance- including warm up & cool down walks is only 2 miles. I'm thinking maybe the hills around here are killing me, but if I run in the neighborhood south of mine, it is flat as a pancake. Maybe that would be better for me. Trying that theory out tomorrow... going to try a Week 7 day again.

Hey all! I did W8D1 this evening and it went well until the last 5-7 minutes when I was feeling rather winded. I've dropped my speed down quite a bit so it's kind of disappointing that I'm still having breathing issues. Over the weekend I got fitted for new running shoes and those seem to help a little bit.

Keep it up everyone!

Hi everyone.

I just finished Week 8, Day 1! I was supposed to do it yesterday, but I had walked 5 miles on Sunday and my legs were still sore, so I put it off until today. Of course, work was long today, and it's hot, and I didn't even start until 8PM. But it's done. At the end I even added a few minutes, so I totaled about 30 minutes. But I'm running really slow, so that only comes out to 2 miles for me. Once I'm more comfortable doing the 30 minutes, I'll work on distance and speeding up a bit.

There's a 5K walk/run on Sunday that I signed up for. I signed up as a walker (because I'm chicken), but the course is flat, so I may do some running in there too. It's one of those sanctioned races, so I was afraid to sign up as a runner. At least I get a cool T-shirt, lots of freebies, and it ends up in the football stadium so maybe I'll see a Steeler or two!

Vanessa

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Good morning group from HOT Mississippi, at 6 am the temp was 78 and the humidty 95%. You will never know how much all the posts help me, we know how each other feel as we read your posts. We each have the good days, the bad days and the days when we try to tell ourself to stop the run early, not to run today or many other excuses that we can come up with not to run. But with this group encouraging each other we can make it, you guys are the BEST!!!

Roxanna, yesterday was the first morning run at USM. I went down and ran with a friend who is just starting to run outdoors, he has been running on a TM. The program that they are using is much like our C25K, the first week is has you running 2min and then walk 3min X 5. The second week is run 3min walk 3min X 5, it is a 8 week program ending with the 5K run on Oct 20. There was at least 30 in the 6:15 run, I will be going down Thursday to run with Tom again. Good luck on your 20min run, I know you will do good!! Stop by and let us know how it goes, we are all pulling for you.

Today I ran 3 miles again, my time was 38min 35sec. This is the first time I have thought about quiting before the end, I just got my mind on something else and the next thing knew I was only a few laps from finishing and feeling good again. It sure feels good to finish each run, I put my hands in the air because I am a winner, we don't have to beat the clock or the person running with us to be a winner, just do your best and keep on keeping on!!

Frank N HOT Mississippi

Hey there everyone! Today was an off day for me, but I thought I would check in...

Mary, I think its awesome that you want to run on your days off!! And I guess as long as you aren't pushing it, its no problem. But I am certainly not an experienced runner and probably shouldn't give running advice!! As for me, on my off days I do about 45-60 minutes of cardio. The elliptical, bike or walking on the treadmill. I feel guilty if I don't get my but moving. Funny thing, I used to look forward to the "off" days so I wouldn't have to run, and now I look forward to the run days!

Way to go everyone!

Erin

Mary - I'm with you on the podcast thing!!! What's with the guy laughing in the background?

I don't think I could actually call what I did today W7D2; maybe W7D1.5. Still have a rotten sinus cold, so I didn't feel up to running at 6am. So - I decided to go after work/before supper, as hubby wanted to BBQ. (Hey - that's fine with me!) So - there I am at 5:15 pm; 26 degrees Celsius - high humidity, sun shining brightly, and the breeze blowing in my face. And my nose running. I think I walked just as much as I ran, because I just couldn't breathe.

At least I lost lots of liquid - sweating bullets, and blowing my nose. But I didn't trip while blowing, so that's another bonus.

Oh well - here's to Friday, and hoping for better results!

Janet

I took an extra rest day today. I found out my crappy run was due to my monthly visitor. I'm feeling better though and will probably run again tomorrow.

On my rest days, I try to swim, or do pilates or yoga. I used to do some strength training exercises, but it was just too boring for me. I too look forward to my run days. I rarely take 2 days off before starting a new week.