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Popsycal - would love that link. I started following a 6 week to 5km programme that was in the Sunday Times. I could barely run for 2-min stretches when I started but can now do 15 min at 10 km/hr. Had a blip in the middle but am back into it now. Quite like doing intervals as it keeps boredom at bay. I now have to pluck up the courage to try running outdoors!

link below...
i did it for about 4 weeks then ent onto.....

Popsycal - Too fast for me. Not unlike the one I was following but am going to print that out and see where I slot in.

Thanks for posting it by the way!

the next step

I got to the point of doing run 15 walk a bit run 15 and MNer persuaded me to just run for 3 miles and I did. And did away with the programmes for now - though I will be back to them after RFl as i am apparently doing a 10K in september

there is a BUPa one which builds up more slowly...hold on

bupa 8 week training programme

I followed the first link I posted earlier for a bit then started to combine the bupa one and the RF: one....

Thanks for those. Can't get the last one to print for some reason. Will look through the others in bed later (motivation for tomorrow). If you are not running on roads, how do you measure the distance (probably a really daft question) or do you just do times?

gmaps pedometer....
though i do run roads

Runnersworld website ahs training schedules too.

yoyo - mapmyrun.com for measuring distance of your routes...

Glitterfairy, would your Dad like another daughter?

Popsycal, ds1 is stood at the top of the staris screaming; thought it might make you feel better to know we have house of non sleeping hell !

Yellowpoo; I'm seriously jealous of your weight loss , having only lost 9lbs since ds2 was born (17 months) I'm down to the weight I was after I had ds1, but God, I want to get back to being 'me'! Running doesnt seem to have the same effect on an old body as it did on my young one!

MRM - thank you!!!

Both my beautiful angels are fast asleep right now

mustrunmore he is brill.

Beets may have to make it an evening run now. Am tired and up too late! Lots of love.

You are all inspiring me though again and again.

What a great thread this is!

Welcome newly inspired runners. Oliveoil - when I started I more or less got overtaken by pensioners out walking the dog - now I'm so much fitter - the other day I overtook someone on a bike (ok, it was a very old, large person going up a very steep hill, but even so!!). Most of all, running has given me huge amounts of energy, and I require less sleep, which is a good think when you have a dd who loves to rise at 5.30am

krispie - I had a charity place for FLM - I ran for Asthma (being asthmatic myself). I'd love to give it another go, but will wait for a ballot place next time, even if I have to wait for a '5 times rejected' place in 2012!! I wouldn't say the training took over my life, but then I probably didn't do enough! And I certainly didn't give up drinking!!!

Oh Pidge, how I would love to need less sleep We get up at 5am too, I go to bed around 9.30 as much as I can, but still get up 2 or 3 times a night

mustrunmore - I was really struggling with the early rising when I started running when dd2 was 6 months old and I'm SURE the running and my improved fitness has helped me cope with the lack of sleep. Admittedly I'm still in bed by 10pm though!

Plus (whispers it quietly) dd2 is now dropping her daytime nap and seems to be sleeping till gone 6am some days!!

hi! another 5am start in this house too! I feel much better for going out last night though. How old is your dc mustrunmore? my dd is nearly 8 months and is up several times in the night too.

pidge - i think i am going to start applying through the ballot each year. im not ready this year (the likelihood is that i wont get in anyway) but by the time i DO get a place (ie 2012) i might be finally fit enough to attempt it!

The first few times I went out on my own I had my ipod on and ran for 2 tracks then walked for 1. Did that 3 times and it took about half an hour. Soon found that walking for a whole track was actually too much recovery time though. Then I went out with someone from work and ran 25-30 mins without stopping at all (that's a lie, I had a 2min break in the middle) and found it ok. LAst night I did 30 mins without stopping at all and I could still breath and talk at the end (maybe I should have gone faster). It's soooooo much easier running with someone else. I find I don't think about the fact that I'm running whereas when I'm on my own I spend the whole time thinking things like 'can I make it to that lamppost before I need a rest?'

FLM is like applying for schools; you have to do it before you're actually born

Pidge, the boys are 3.7 and 17 months(I know, I'm soooo unfit, and no 'new baby' excuse ), but the night waking is due to me! I had a really bad a water addiction during both pg, that hasnt never totally abated, and a post baby weak bladder! So I'm up weeing I'd do anything for a full nights sleep!

oh thanks for those links, will print them off

shoes? there is a specialist running shop up the road, I may go there, what ££££ should I expect?

also, is it safe to run with an ipod? I think you won't hear traffic noise etc, and I am hoping to progress to the tracks near the farm nearby and I think, hmmmmmm, I won't hear anybody coming [paranoid]

I want to run to get fit, I don't do any exercise and feel very tired all the time, just blurrrrrghhhh iykwim. Dd2 was(is?) a bad sleeper but seems to have improved, but I still feel tired so I am hoping exercise will help

Inspired by your posts I ran 3km straight this morning and probably could have done another minute. That will be my challenge for tomorrow. I then did the last 2km as intervals - find I quite like a minute at 12.5 k/hr then a minute's rest but can't do it more than three times at the moment. Onwards and upwards.

I run with an ipod and keep the volumne down enough so I can still hear cars.