I'm tryin to put on a photo of my Guinea Pig, so god knows how that will be intrepreted!!
I did my second run tonight (so far to go!) and feel it has been of better benefit than the first. On Monday I did running for 2 mins and walking for 2 mins and could only do 4 repetitions - it knackered me. I hate excercise and am completely unfit so tonight changed to running for 1 min and walking for 1 min and managed 9 - feel much better after it. For me it is going to be a very slow gradual ramp up. I also got a cheap running watch from Argos and find the repeat countdown on it (1 min) invaluable for sticking to the regime.
Thanks Lottee, at the moment the hills are my foe!!! As someone has said earlier in the thread, for me runnig outside and having to get back to home under my own steam is better then going to the gym as I would give up too easily )-: GNR here I come.
Good luck Rhino, this thread has been of help and motivation to me too.
On a seperate topic, does anyone know how I shrink an image from 114kb (gif) to the 12kb so that I can insert in my profile?
Just starting out on this 'running thing' too. Have completed one road run (walk 2 min, run 2 min) and was going to just stick to road running as I begrudge paying extortionate gym rates.
However, as I have entered into the Great North Run (self-bullying to excercise and motivate!), should I also run / train on the threadmill or can I do it all with road / outside running.
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