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I was nervous about day 3 too and had planned on doing day 2 again before moving to day 3, but I was encouraged by someone here to move onto day 3 and if I had to stop and walk at some point to then call it day 2. I actually did it! 20 straight minutes and it wasn't as bad as I though it would be!! If this 53 year old and 221# mom can do it so can you!!

Torus!! OMG... I DID IT!!!!! My pace was slow, 3.2 but I really wanted to do today without stopping.

I bought a knee brace and iced my knee down after every running session back when I was having trouble. Also used ibuprofen (Advil) from time to time. Now? Not a lick of pain in my knees.

Linita&I - no one single thing I did was extraordinary. I was lazy - still am, to a degree. Each little thing built upon the previous one and that's how this started to become 'a thing'. I mean, the list is a bunch of baby steps... - the picture from my stepdaughter (July 2014) putting something in my head. - buying new phones that tracked my steps (November 2014). - seeing that data and start to subconsciously want to 'up my numbers' - nothing serious (December 2014). - mapping out a 5K neighborhood walk to see if I could do it. - doing it. - wondering if I could run 5K someday. - seeing finisher medals for 5K races while surfing the net on running programs. - discovering the C25K system. - doing that first session (January 2015) - resuming C25K after being snowed out for 3 months (March 2015) - Setting a goal of running the Walt Disney World 5K and 10K races (in Jan 2016) and signing up for them (April 2015). - Struggling through various sessions but still making progress. - Failing sessions but, because I was tracking myself with an app (MapMyRun+), I could still see improvement from previous sessions. - Repeating sessions until I succeeded. - Getting a hip/leg injury (July 2015) that restricted my movements. - Getting a bike to ride around since I could still do that (August 2015) - Getting cleared to start running again (October 2015) and almost completely restarting the program from the beginning. - Not failing a single session and skipping a few as I felt almost too strong at times. - Doing the 30-minute run and continuing on to the C10K program. - Doing my first 60-minute run (more like a jog, as are ALL my 'running' intervals) a week before my plane left for Florida. - Running the races (Jan 2016). - Running three times a week to keep my legs going. There's no single "big step" in all of that. They were all baby steps. Tentatively, if my body will let me, I want to do half marathons this year. If I can, maybe stretch that out to a marathon next year. And then, in January 2018, maybe "do the Dopey" - the Dopey Challenge where you run the WDW 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon races on consecutive days. I'm not trying to be competitive - not with anyone but myself. The goal is to finish. I'm only proving things to myself. And with the support I get form my wife, well, that makes it all the more easy. I know I sound like so many other people.. But if *I* can do it, well, most people can do it.