Dawni04

The pain subsides when I start walking, if that helps

Hi all, so I'm a first time runner and new this app. I started and finished my first week a few weeks ago. I was feeling pumped and motivated for week 2, but on the first day of week 2, I began to feel a numbing pain at the lower front of only right leg. I thought it was shin splints, so I took 2 weeks off from running. I restarted the app today thinking I'd given myself enough rest time, but I immediately began to feel the pain crop again as soon as I started running. I'm feeling really frustrated right now because this is something I want and know I can do, but this pain is getting in the way of that. Based on what I describe, what do you think it could be, and how can I treat it? Thanks!

Can't believe I'm actually doing it, but I am! Week one is officially finished. I'm not going to jump into week two immediately, however. I want to repeat week one in order to get more comfortable with the sets and then move on once I am. Let me know if you think this is a good idea or not. I just want to stay motivated and not burn myself out. Cheers

Can't believe I've started this, but first day is a wrap. Admittedly, I'm very scared and uncertain how this will go. I've never had very strong will power, but this is something that I really want to accomplish, so I'm just going to take it one day at a time and keep going as best as I can. Looking forward to Day Two!

Thank you. Day one is complete, looking forward to day two tomorrow!

Hello, everyone. I am a 21-year-old woman recently graduated from college. For the past three months, I have been jobless, broke, and poised to lose my apartment as the days go by. I've been feeling like a financial and emotional burden on my family and generally a huge disappointment to myself. It seems like within the last two years, I have increasingly become incredibly unmotivated and self deprecating. My future dreams and aspirations have all become dimmer and more distant as time goes by. After a while, I had just about given up on everything. My room, which I'd go days without leaving, became a mess, my social life went to the gutter, my self care and hygiene had all but disappeared, and I gained a significant amount of weight in the process. My lifestyle had dipped so drastically that the clothes that fit me only two months ago no longer fit me. It was only until a couple of weeks ago that I realized I was going through a form of moderately severe depression. And then it hit me. If I didn't make a change then and there, things were only going to get worse for me, and I was going to completely lose control of myself and my life. At that moment, I decided to move forward. I've since organized my room, gotten out the apartment more often, interacted with friends and family, and this past weekend, I got a new job. As I'm slowly piecing my life back together, I wish to take control of one other aspect of it: my health. I have never been through the process of losing weight, at least not to any significant level, and the past few months have led to the highest weight amount I've ever been. This isn't how I want to live out the prime years of my life. And so, I am deciding to make a change in that area as well. My first day of C25K will be tomorrow. My aim isn't to be a size zero, but just a weight and condition where I can be more active, healthy, and feel more comfortable with myself. As an extra incentive, I want to be able to run a 5k in October for my city's local cancer run. I know this isn't going to be easy, but I am ready to take on the challenge and to keep moving forward. Thank you for reading. Wish me luck, and best of luck to all others starting or continuing this journey as well. We can do it Onward.