5 miles no walking

[zrzuce]

For the first time, I ran 5 miles non-stop with no walking. I have been able to run 3 miles non-stop for a while, but 5 has never happened without at least one walk break. I also did the 5 miles in less that 50 minutes, which is only the second time I have done that. All told, I was on the treadmill for 60 minutes. Once the 5 was done, I walked the

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[bridgelene]

Congrats! :-)

I have a question, and reading this post I think you're the perfect person to ask. I'm not a runner, and never have been. I just don't do well with it, even when I was very young I'd get winded very easily and therefore did not like to run. I have been tested for asthma, and that's been ruled out. So I think it's just that I've never been in the proper condition for running.

So any tips/pointers for someone who's at the VERY beginning of starting to run? I really want to start running and one day, be decent at it (in that I will be able to run a mile or few and NOT feel like I'm about to die in doing so -- as opposed to now, where I can't run but less than a minute without feeling like I'm about to die. . .)

[zrzuce]

My body hates to run. To me, running is very unnatural, and I've always been better at things like lifting weights

[bridgelene]

I don't know either. It may or may not be "horrible", but the point is that you did it, which is great! :-)

Thanks so much!