To ask if you can run?

[mrshyde27]

Would love to go running, it's free and great for burning calories. Is it just me who sounds like a walrus with a cold after a couple of minutes? I gym three times a week and am reasonably fit and active. I just can't get the hang of it.

only if I clutch my bosom

I did couch to 5k and got to running for 20 minutes without stopping albeit very very slowly. I was impressed with it

You're trying to go too quickly by the sound of it.

Are you heel-striking also? I used to and was terrible at running. I made the (painful) switch to forefoot striking and my running has improved tremendously.

I can run for nearly an hour straight on a treadmill but on the street I'm a mess after 10 minutes! I have to go running with friends or I just give up.

I know it's what everyone says but get a couch to 5 k program I did it about 5 years ago. I used to be able to run for about 20 minutes at the gym but I found road running really hard.

I did c25k and struggled doing a minute at a time at first. Really struggled. I completed it then stopped and I'm back at square 1 now. I've just started again!

Couch to 25k. I went from never ever exercising to completing a half marathon in 2.5 hours, in 19 weeks. Just whack the app on your phone and do what the voice tells you. Honestly, it changed my life.

I am very very proud to say YES I can!!! . I was like you for years - went to lots of exercise classes and felt I was reasonably fit and active, but couldn't run to the end of the street. After DD2 was born, I had to accept that I couldn't fit in going to exercise classes in the evenings any more, but I could fit in a 30/40 minute run a few times a week. So I did the couch to 5k. I didn't think I would EVER be able to run continuously for 5k, but now I run 4 miles regularly (will do more when the DDs are older and I have more time) and after quite a few months (nearly a year really) I actually enjoy it! Last Saturday, DH took the girls to swimming lessons at the leisure centre in the next town and I ran there to meet them. It was a lovely day, I had all my favourite tunes on the ipod - it was wonderful. Do it!!!

Just the thought of running makes me keel over

Try couch to 5k, and run really, really slowly. You might feel like you could walk faster, but its fine, you are learning to run.

I did c25k 3 years ago having never been able to run. I've run ever since and will do my first marathon in April

I have just started it again actually, as due to various life events I have not run in 9 months.

I did c25 a year ago. I have kept it up, and run 5k parkruns every Saturday but my god I find it hard, along with the two training runs in the week. I am not a natural, sadly.

I can't run - wish I could.

According to my DH, I run like a duck...

It's great to hear about how fast... Slow you should go...
I started c25k a month or two before Christmas and was actually beginning to enjoy it... Repeated week 3 a lot!! Then my knee seized up so took a break over Christmas and have started at week 1 again this week! It's disheartening to start again... I could run for 3 whole mins before!! And now back at square 1!
Like I said... It's good to hear it's not about speed... And the talk without gasping as I get it in my head you're supposed to be out of breath!
OP... Give it a go!

I can't! I've tried couch to 5k four or five times and can never get past whichever one is before the 20 minutes running. I feel sick and can't breathe no matter how long I try and do it

keep going and build up

I do an outdoor boot camp twice a week (and an aerobics class) and I have built up my running through that

I started running on other days - I can now drag myself around about 3k in 20 mins - not fast but no stopping or struggling to breath - 12 months ago I'd have died after 1K

Just keep doing a bit at a time - find somewhere nice to run - I use our park as it's free parking, massive and loads of varied routes - keeps it interesting which distracts you

I can't run with music - I need to hear myself!

I'd also try running with a friend - I breath a lot better if I'm yacking !

Not even if an axe murderer were chasing me in a hockey mask.

I started the couch 25k four weeks ago. The hardest week so far has been the first week, honestly! I couldn't even run for 60 seconds and thought I'd die in that first week.

I'm now on week four and running for a full five minutes in one go.

It really seems to be working and I'm the biggest sceptic.

Yes & do a couple of times a week, maybe you've gone at it too hard & fast so perhaps start very slowly & build up?

Agree with running with someone, for some bizarre reason feels loads easier with someone to gas to

I can run. I started when I was relatively fit, but could only run for a few minutes then had to walk. I was going far too fast. I slowed right down and then managed to run 5k, which i was ridiculously proud of.

I absolutely cannot run long distance.
I can do short 2 minute sprints. With walking in between. But cannot run for any longer than that.
I've tried c25k loads of times but I can't get past 2 minutes. It's odd because I'm fit in general, I go to the gym regularly.

I started to try to run when kids weer toddlers and just couldn't. Not at all. But since youngest went to school I am a different person and can do 5k two or three times a week, no problem :)

It takes time to get a hang of it, plus it helps if you're generally fit and well. (Which most mums of babies and toddlers rarely are).