After starting running 4 months ago I'm absolutely loving it. Never had myself down as a jogger but it feels good. The wonders it has done to my sleep is enough that I'm confident I'll keep it up for a long time.

Managed to shed a few excess pounds and can now safely tuck into carbs and the odd dessert guilt-free.

Long term goal is to do a half marathon in April next year.

Would encourage anyone apprehensive about starting or feeling down after some poor initial efforts to persevere, it gets a lot easier after a few weeks.

Got to echo this, just keep at it.

Made it to week 3 of the couch to 5k and my sister in law is visiting and wanted to do the park run.  Thought I'd give it a go.   I managed 41 minutes and beat 10 people.  I probably ran about two thirds of the distance. 

Thought it would be good to put up a bad time to give the other fat old farts hope.

Will probably give it 3 weeks before giving it another go.  I am up to 5 minutes without stopping to walk, which sounds rubbish, but 1 minute was an issue not long ago.

Keep at it Doobs, it does get easier!

Look forward to your next Park Run update.

Best wishes for the day, and hope you have a great honeymoon.

Great work Pads.

Has Pads one another one?

This and Foo Fighters at Glastonbury, perfect!

Loving these updates Tikay, good luck today and for the rest of Vegas.

I know Connery is sposed to be the best, but I grew up on Moore and I fucking loved those Bond movies, RIP.

Exactly this. RIP

Good work CF, not far to go now and you have overcome the hardest part already.

The niggling ankle injury is back at the moment so sticking to 5ks this week, gutted as i thought i would get an 8k in this week but there is no rush.

Another problem, sore nipples! This is now starting to hurt on the longer runs, any seasons runners got a cure?

Good work Pads, keep it up!

Still at it..
Another good week, managed 6k, 6k, 7k, & a 5k this morning.

The 5k this morning ended up at a PB of 24:29 @ an average pace of 4:51, my first 5k on the 16th April took 28:59 with av/pace of 5.25 so a good improvement.

Have been to the gym every other day in between running and doing 30-40minutes on the cross trainer, think that must be helping as the 5k this morning seemed quite easy.

RIP Robert Miles

Blimey, fair play for having a go at it in the first place, 16k is still impressive.

I am probably the opposite lol, up to 6.2k at the moment and will probably try for 7k at the weekend.

Out of interest, how old are you (Lonohray)?

It is quite addictive, my initial goal was to be able to run 5k now for some reason I want to get to 10k, I wonder if I will have the urge to ever try and go past 10k..

Steve, i have had the phone issue a couple of times and it really does ruin the run.

Out of interest, I use mapmyrun, what are you guys using? Any pros / cons? Anyone use a fitbit type device?

Keep it up guys.

Regarding the pains in legs / shins etc. I got those when i was just doing to much, i took a few days out and then all was fine.

I get pretty bad pains every time I run now, normally my calves get pretty tight and painful and I have an ongoing ankle issue but it is bearable and seems to recover ok.

Just ran my first 6k this morning and basically felt the same as running a 5k which is my standard run at the moment, kept the same pass as 5k too; which I am happy with.

On my off days I have now joined the gym so doing bike, cross training and have tried a bit of swimming but i am basically rubbish at it and the ball ache of the changing etc just  puts me off.

Was 14 stone when i started this and weighed in yesterday just a fraction over 13 stone, so going well.

This weeks runs:

This week is going well, ankle seems to have sorted itself out although I am now running with my ankles strapped to give some extra support.

Still running every other day at the moment and starting to actually feel a little bit fitter.