Yay!! So happy you responded...I did do week one and it went well. I will start W2 tomorrow morning.  I've been sick on top of being out of town and have gotten a late start on W2.

This is also my second time using the wonderful system   I started my first round in 2010 as well.  A lot has happened in two years and here I am again. I'm with you I'm slow and steady runner between 9-10 minute miles.  I dont run for speed at all.

Hope your week 2 has started off well too.

Thank you for the encouragement.

Happy running and glad to have you as my running bud

Hey Christina,

Glad to have you on board. I have to admit I have slacked off and will be repeating week two this week.  I have not been sleeping nor have I had the energy to run.  This week is a whole new week and I am back on the wagon.  I think this is a great program and with wonderful supporters like you and ShaunaBeth I think we can continue to encourage each other.  Thank you for your post you have helped me stay motivated  

Keep me posted on how you are doing and I will do the same.

Happy running

Just another thought ladies...

Are y'all working out too?  I just wondering if your only running or if you are also doing other exercises or activities.  I am working out, just started that back too. 

Also, if you would like to chat about food diaries/journals I'm game for that too.  Running is such a small part of being totally fit and healthy.  Just to support all of you on every level of it.  I have been into fitness for many years since I was about 18, I will be 33 next week I even looked into becoming a personal trainer at one point but with my small town I would never be able to make a full time living of it. 

I too struggle as my body is odd shaped, I am small framed with large hips (Starnes thunder thighs, is what my family calls it) but I do need all the help and support I can get to keep my head right so that I can make my body do what I need it to.

I have more than over educated myself with the knowledge of what I need to do and I can talk it all day, but once I fall off the wagon it's hard to jump back on.  However, like most of us we have an oh so wonderful friend who is oh so willing to work out with us and then a few weeks in (if that long) they bail on us.  I've gotten over the feeling of needing that extra body with me at the gym that I am "semi-confident" to train by myself. 

I fell of the wagon after I went through a divorce and started dating again.  I was hit and miss on working out after my divorce mostly hit but still not 100% dedicated.  I moved to be closer to my parents and started driving over 60 miles round trip to work and that was my old work out time not to mention my extra time was now taken up by my boyfriend. I say extra time, it was very little extra time as I am also a single mother of a wonderful 7 year old daughter who has more energy than 5 of me. I started making excuses and here I am 7 months later and as I walk into the gym they ask who I am since its been close to a year since they have seen me, lol.

This website has always been a major help to me and I hope that I can also help others like me regardless of what age or fitness level we are on. Everyone of us needs support and thats what I'm hoping to find here.

Now that my after thought from this mornings replies has turned into my life story for you guys, lol.

Hope all of you are active today.

Any ideas or comments to help each other are greatly appreciated

Can't wait to hear back from y'all.

Sindi