If you are overweight and very unfit how do you get over the embarrassement factor of runnig in public?

[lilibet]

It's all in the title really............

please dont feel embarassed - its great that you are getting out there. Anyone who sees you, runner or otherwise is going to have nothing
but respect for you for actually doing it.

I run regularly and i still get the occasional group of teenage boys (girls are actually worse) sniggering and the like as i run past, because it wont matter how far i go - i am never going to have a bum as small as paula radcliffe.....my response is either to ignore them or to say "we'll see how fit you are when you are 40"...And i will second the person who said they wear a cap - it also helps me.

good luck - and beware - running is addictive