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After the excitement and excessive living of a weekend without child or dogs in Durham it was always going to end badly. Holiday Monday was spent binge watching bodyguard and demolishing a huge chicken enchilada. Thankfully I managed to roll along the treadmill for 30 consecutive minutes thus claiming success in first run of the second week. This time spurred on by the rather talented Theo Kottis...

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I don’t know I’m reading this right.

30 minutes of walk/run on the treadmill... very well done.

30 minutes running in the treadmill in week two... ok, well done, now wind it back in and stick to the programme, we don’t want to see you injure yourself.

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Fatdad71Graduate in reply toUnfitNoMore

No need to worry. I was rolling but at different paces - running and walking - as per the c25k programme!

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UnfitNoMoreGraduate in reply toFatdad71

In that case... bloody good job. Onwards and upwards!

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Fatdad71Graduate in reply toUnfitNoMore

Just read your bio! Well done you. Am in similar position, ex smoker, currently overweight (was obese before I started). Never really been into running much but enjoying it so much now and really surprised by that. I was beset by injury for 6 weeks so I thought I'd just go back to the start to build up gradually to 5k - again. Theres a lot to be said for taking it easy, and playing the long game. You don't get to our age without having figured that out. Thanks for the support and all the best for your progress. Kev.

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UnfitNoMoreGraduate in reply toFatdad71

I made a bucket load of mistakes when I had to stop running and when it was full I got another bucket. I did the damage to myself after my running was over... I just undid it... it doesn’t give me a feeling of achievement. It has changed me though... and I hope that I can help others. All my adult life something was missing... and now I know it was the joy of running... not for a win, not for a record, not for a PB, just because I love it. I was surprised to be considering it again, more so when my doctor went all Nike on me and said to just do it. All the crap in my life had to go... I am competitive with myself, I have to be as good as I can be again, but I’m relieved that I no longer have to be faster than everyone else, heck I don’t even have to be fast, but I do need to do it. I took great delight in running 20 minutes a couple of weeks ago, I’d never done that in my life. I wouldn’t change a thing if I could rewind time, but most of my life I’d have taken away the knee damage if I could. I guess in short I’m just happy now.

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Keep on rolling... with the plan, obliviously... well done you... !

Now..all you have to do is....ditch the HUGE chicken enchiladas... :) :)

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