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Megan There are plenty stories like yours on the forum. Sorry, but you are not unique in this sense.... In you case I would continue work on the week one. It is OK to repeat it as long as you needed. It will not be easy, but good things always require some efforts. You will feel great about yourself when you can complete the week one with ease and it should take 2-3 weeks if you stick with the program. Also walk every day. You need to walk 5 miles per day and as most sedentary people you likely doing 1-2 miles at most. Use your smartphone as a pedometer, start with 3000 steps daily and get to the 10000. Give up stairs and elevators , park you car as far as you could, walk around the table, etc. Kudos to you for sticking with your change of the dietary habits!

Yes, but don't get injured. I was adding "bonus" run intervals to get more....

1. Install MapMyRun on your phone and turn on GPS 2. Roughly 2000-2200 steps is one mile, unless your stride is really big 3. Friend with bike and bike odometer 4. Use your car odometer if you are running along the road 5. Rope

Definitely the rest days are necessary for most of us. But if your muscles are trained to such load, the everyday run will work for you. It is my understanding that "every other day" schedule is for couch potatoes like I am.

Very reasonable goal and achievable too. Good luck!

Monday Walk 5 miles - 3.6mph, 3% incline Tuesday Exercise bike - 5 miles (~20 min) Walk 1 mile - 3.8mph, 3% incline Run 1 mile - 6.0mph, 3% incline Walk 0.3 miles - cool down Arm and back strength machines ~40min Wednesday Walk 3 miles - 3.6mph, 3% incline Run 1 mile - var. speed 4.5-5.4mph (+0.1mph each 0.1 mile), 3% incline Walk 0.6 mile - 3.6mph, 3% Thursday Walk 1 mile - 3.6mph, 3% incline Run 2 miles - var. speed 5.0-5.9mph (+0.1mph each 0.2 mile), 3% incline Walk 1 mile - 3.6mph, 3% Friday 5 miles - exercise bike (~20min) 2.5 miles - walk 3.8mph Arms and back strength circle (~40 min) Saturday 5 hours fishing (0 fish) 3.5 miles walking - 3.6mph, 3% incline Sunday Walk 0.4 mile - 3.6mph, 3% incline Run 2 miles - 5.6mph, 3% Walk 0.4 mile - 3.6mph, 3% Run 2 miles - 5.6mph, 3% Walk 0.4 mile - 3.6mph, 3% ( For me the distance intervals are more easy to do mentally then time intervals. I cannot explain it...)

+5miles walking.

Days 1-3 in weeks 1 and 2 and 3 are the same. So keep it up, build up your endurance. And it is OK to walk or repeat day or week. You have started and it is huge step by itself. Now the next step is keep trying until you can jog the whole program through. Trust me, you will like this feeling of achievement!

About 8-9 weeks But, seriously, it depends on what result you are looking for

I would go with week 5 and, if it is too easy, you can always add "bonus" interval(s)

"rest" day: 5mi on the exercise bike ~20m 1mi walk 3.5mph, 3% 1mi run 5.6mph 3% incline 40 min strength machines for the back and arms. 20 min sauna

I would go with goal to increase my pace. Making up your own version of the exercise for the day was fun part for me too. Basically try to find new goal (faster, farther or bigger muscles) and go for it. You can find on the internet lot of different plans/schedules modify them for you and go!

You see, the cold can means very different things. Runny nose is one, the body aches and temperature is another. The medical questions should be handle by professionals. Nobody can answer this Q for you, only you and your physician. If you feel better, try to start slow and progress faster if it feels good.

Sunday: (link works only if you have account with MapMyRide) My pedometer thinks I still need to do 8200 steps (~4 miles)...

This how we lost Mars prob : "NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday." http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288

I knew you can do it! Congrats!

Looks like I am taking sabbatical from running until my ankle gets better. Friday: 2.5 miles on the treadmill - average speed 3.7mph, average incline 4% (maximum walking speed 4.6mph, maximum incline 8%) Also got my total 15k steps per day.

Wednesday. Run 1.5 miles in two intervals (5.5mph, 3% incline) and then give up (here goes the list of my excuses). Just not my day... Walk the rest of it - 3miles total.

Laura, Some people go to the sauna for dry heat, you got it outside! Lucky you! How to deal with hot weather? First, I would cut this beautiful lion-like hairdo to something more modern, lioness-like haircut. Second, for Pete's sake for the sake of the Penguins get a treadmill!

3 days per week!

Monday I decided not to run today, 'cause my ankle was bothering me whole day... Instead I did power walk on the treadmill: 4 miles, 3.8mph, 3% incline. 1h3min

It is all up to you. For me, usually Mon, Wed, Fri are running days. Tue, Thu and Sat are the gym days and the Sunday is lazy day This is in ideal world But life is not on strict schedule, so I move things around, switching Sat and Sun or run on Sun and rest on Monday. Sometimes I have to sacrifice the gym day. But I am trying to keep my pedometer happy - 14.5k steps per day! Keep it three days per week. Try to give some rest to your legs in between.

Fran, keep walking. I started walking 2 years ago (got myself Garmin vivofit). Today I am doing almost 15000 steps daily. It is about 7 miles. Half year ago I got treadmill and start my first C25K. I lost about 16lb without diets, just smaller portions (my weight went under 200). I can run 5k now. I am doing my second C25K (faster time is a goal). And I started going to gym, and believe me, I am not a gym person. All this started with silly pedometer.... Keep it up!

What do you think is the problem: your cardio (out of breath); your leg muscles (cotton legs)? Most likely you need to address the both. It means combination of long runs days (legs) with sprint days (cardio). Rock your boat, surprise your body with different type of load and do not forget your core muscles.

Way to go! We need more details. Was running in pack helpful? What was key to success? Keep us posting 'til week 9 at least!