30-Somethings - I just ran 8 minutes (in a row)!!!

I just started on my running adventure 3 weeks ago, and could barely run for a minute at a time. I have been following th walk/jog routine, with slight modifications. My husband has been coming along to motivate me (ex-army man) and he always pushes me to give it all I've got on our last run. I told him I was really dreading Sunday when the new week starts and we walk for 2 minutes & run for 4. I said "there's no way I can run for 4 minutes". Well needless to say on the last push I gave it all I had, and when I finally looked back at the clock it had been 8 minutes.:woohoo:
I have never ran before, but am very addicted!!

congrats, that is great news. Keep up the good work.

this seems like a post i would author...lol. I can NOT imagine running that long. I'm gasping just thinking about it...my chest...lol. I hope I too can get addicted to exercise. Right now I dread it because I am SO out of shape. Ugh.

Keep at it! You are doing GREAT!! That's exactly how I started, now I'm up to 12 miles a week on a regular basis.

:hug:

Congratulations! I remember back in July of last year, I did an early morning bootcamp where the WARM-UP was a quarter mile jog. I couldn't jog the entire quarter mile and felt horrible about myself. A few weeks ago, I ran a 10k and run on the treadmill regularly at the gym. Enjoy the upward moving endurance! I continue to remember the time running was unimaginable to me and relish those moments.

I am proud of you!

Speaking of which, I was going to take the night off from the gym. But, I'm thinking I'll go over just for a quick run.

Thanks for the motivation!

Alli

Hey you! It's me! LOL
I am sooooo proud of you! You are my hero! I so look forward to the day! Keep it up + I shall catch u on Monday :)

That's wonderful!!!

I've told my story on here many times, so if you've already heard this just ignore me. I just wanted to tell you that three years ago when I started running I couldn't run for more than a few minutes, and the following year I ran a half marathon without stopping to walk! If I could do that, anyone can do anything. I'm telling myself that every day because I have to work back up to that after gaining a lot of weight with my pregnancy!

Anyway, the point is: the sky's the limit!

I remember when I started running. I looked up a plan online which started with walking 20 minutes for 4 days and then 30 minutes for 4 days before running.

Then my first real running assignment was 2 minutes jogging/running, 2 minutes walking. EASY, I thought. WRONG, I was. Two minutes is a long freaking time! Ah, eventually it got easy.

Anyway, 8 minutes is a big deal. Congrats!

Wow! That's great news, congratulations!
I've always sayd this: jogging is the best method of losing weight. I'm sure you're going to do well and soon be able to run for even 15 minutes without a stop.
The first step is always the hardest one! But you did it!

Thanks everyone for all of your encouragement. This site has been awesome and everyone is so positive. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

That's awesome! I've been wanting to start jogging again but I can barely jog for a minute without being out of breath. Maybe I'll try the walk jog intervals. Do you increase the interval times every other time or every week?

Here is what I have been doing, it's a variation of something I read on a link here. I always start with a 5 minute warm up walk then:
Week 1: 1 min run, 5 min walk, reapeat 5 times. On the last run I (thanks to my hubbby) push myself and run for as long as I can. (for those of you thinking you can't do this, my 1st push was 90 sec :-)
Week 2: 2 min run; 4 min walk (best push this week 3 min)
Week 3: 3 min run; 3 min walk (best push this week 12 min, & we still have tomorrow :-)
Week 4: 4 min run; 2 min walk
Week 5: 5 min run; 1 min walk
My advice is to just get started, that has been the hardest thing for me, was just going out & doing it. If I can do it, anyone can!! Thank you all for your support. I am happier about my running times, than my scale movement!!!

BabyBoop,

Please know that you inspired me today. I read your post last night, and then today, for the first time in over two months, I decided to try c25k again (week 3) which I struggled with back in May.

Well I screwed up and thought you ran 10 minutes without stopping, so I had to "copy" you. And I hit the 10 minutes.

So now you must beat me! (It would be a fun game, right?)

Congratulations... it's such a great feeling isn't it, to accomplish that length of running!

Redsox33,
That is awesome! You're right, it is such a wonderful feeling to complete a run. I'm always so doubtful when I begin, but it's always so refreshing once I finish. Good luck to you, let's see how many minutes we can rack up!!

Redsox33,
That is awesome! You're right, it is such a wonderful feeling to complete a run. I'm always so doubtful when I begin, but it's always so refreshing once I finish. Good luck to you, let's see how many minutes we can rack up!!

Sounds like a great plan! Would anybody else like to join BettyBoop and I? :)

BabyBoop, wow that's fantastic! Congrats! And thanks for posting this! :)

Ok we had a rest day... what is in store for tomorrow? 8 minutes? 10 minutes? 2 minutes? or.... 12 minutes!!!!!! Let's shoot for 10 and when we get to 10 we do 12. Let's do it! :)

Great job!!!

I started a running regime too.

The most I can do is about 4/5 mins for now.
But I'm hoping to run a 5k someday.

Sounds like a plan. I actually ran tonight (it is so hit here, have to wait till after 8 to go out) so let's aim for 12 minutes tomorrow. I will evenually start measuring distance, but I'm still going kinda slow so I'm more impressed with the time. Glad to have someone challenging me ;-) Happy running!!

Justimagine stick with it! 4-5 minutes is a good amount of time. You will find it gets easier (and more exciting) the longer you keep with it. Believe me I never thought I would be the one posting about loving to run, but it is awesome.

Thats GREAT!!! I am proud of you!! I can't wait until I can do that. Right now, I can't even run, my body is in such bad shape. But thats is awesome news.

Congrats nice work!

I waited ALL day for the rain to go away. The meteorologists said it would be a quick passing storm. Nope, wet til 5. And it was HUMID.

I did three 5 minute jogs and then a 2 minute jog to total 17 minutes of jogging! The rest of the time was spent brisk walking for a total of 54 minutes and a distance of 3.5 miles.

I am VERY proud of myself. I think what I'll do next time is three 6 minute intervals. Then 7, 8, 9, and my goal 10 minute to total 30 minutes of jogging.

Then I'll re-evaluate. I love this. I feel such a sense of accomplishment to think that a few months ago I was struggling to jog a minute, literally.

Keep going everybody here who's jogging! We can all do this! :carrot:

I've been thinking about starting to run too. Up until now I've come up with every excuse in the book. I don't have a treadmill so as long as the weather cooperates I'm going to start this week.
Thanks for the motivation.

I've been thinking about starting to run too. Up until now I've come up with every excuse in the book. I don't have a treadmill so as long as the weather cooperates I'm going to start this week.
Thanks for the motivation.

Good for you! You can do this!

Where did all the jogging buddies go?

I did the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred yesterday and biked 10 miles today. I'll be doing Maura Barclays no sweat yoga tonight so I'll be ready to go tomorrow morning for a jog!

My goal is to do 6 minute jogging intervals... 3 of them for a total of 18 minutes jogged.

come back friends!

That's really good! Most people I talk to, no matter their size, say they can do that without thinking. It took me over a month to get up to running one mile in 10 minutes. I thought it was a feat but, everyone just said, "man you're out of shape! I can do that, no problem". So I, understand what an accomplishment this is. Really cool!

I'm here jogging buddy!! I have jogged three times this week! Yestersday was awesome! I jogged the entire course (which is at least a mile), I'm slow, so it took me a while, but I did it. Keep up the good work all my jogging buddies!!

I'm here jogging buddy!! I have jogged three times this week! Yestersday was awesome! I jogged the entire course (which is at least a mile), I'm slow, so it took me a while, but I did it. Keep up the good work all my jogging buddies!!

That's amazing!!!!! What an accomplishment!