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Did a 3.5k run along the river near our house today and most of the aches are gone my shins were grumbling so I may just make it a 2 run week this week and do a 5k on friday then back to my schedule.

Well I am certainly feeling it today from the run yesterday christ, havent felt this sore since I did my first run 4 weeks back in fact it's worse lol...

No pain no gain eh.

Hi, I am James from Hitchin and 34 years old and very overweight (17st when i started running in Sept)

Started running 20th September this year after myself and a friend decided to get ourselves a challenging hobby we can both spar each other with and settled on running.

I managed a 5k at a time of 41 m (my first time running since High school and that time I 'borrowed' a garden gnome from a front garden) since then I have been doing training on a treadmil -

Monday easy run 2mi

Wednesday 3.11mi (5k)

Friday 4mi (going to 5mi this coming week)

I am trying to slowly increase my speed which I can manage a 5k in 33mins 42s now on the treadmill.  Today I did a 3.6mi village race in Harlington in 37min 42secs and am looking to do a 5k next month in Whitstable (coastal run) second week of November with my friend.

On the dietary side about 2 months ago I basically gave up everything unhelpful, Drink, junk food, pop etc and have lost just over 1stone since I started running on September 20th. I have the eating under control for now and so I was wondering what I can do to best increase my time between now and then as beating the pants off my 5 years younger and skinnier friend would be lovely. 

 I think my main enemies from todays little race was judging my pace and the 2 steep hill climbs one was over half a km and decimated me to the point I was on the verge of stopping and honestly might of had it not been for the fact some people were behind me.