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My Name: Is irrelevant. Female, 34 years old. I have only 6 months running and my weight was 69 Kilos now I am 56 Kilos , I started to run to release the stress of depression, health problems, now run by passion, but I have a relapse by injuries, but that's good normal. I want to say to all the people with health problems if it can, alone, with high self-esteem,Only requires willpower. . My first race of 10 K, 09/30/2007, with a time 01:11:00. My second race ok 10K, 11/11/07, with a part-time 5 k , 30:43 (I did better times.),And the 10 k in 01:02:20. Even though working to make my race last at least 58 minutes, my injury ( shin splints) not left me, I finished the race with a lot of pain. I hope to have better news next, I hope to continue to improve my times, my pace, you can feel freedom to let their comments, good or bad will always be welcome. Thank you all for sharing such inspirational stories.

I started running in 2005 for transplant games, I had entered the 400 m but couldn't finish it running. I made a promise to me that the following games, 2006, I would enter it again and run entire thing....It took me six months of the whole walk run deal but I finally ran all of it without walking or stopping then did it again at the games. When games were over, I wanted to run a mile so I started around August 06 and did it a month later. I couldn't leave well enough alone so on the day I got to 3 miles I entered a 5K so on and on, a year later I ran the marathon in october 07. I dont know what my pace was when I first started because I didnt keept track of it. I avarge anywhere from 11:30 - 12:30 pace with exception of marathon, my over all pace for that was almost 14.

Sort of running for about 1.5 years, consistently running for a year. Initial tempo pace 9:24 (average speed during a 2 mile race in mid-2006) Current tempo pace: 6:4X (for ~ 20 minute tempo runs) Current MPW (20-35 + 2-3 hours of spinning and racquetball, using the Furman.edu FIRST program) Background story for anyone that is interested. I ran cross-country and track in HS in the late 80s and really enjoyed it, but stopped running after that. I gained a lot of weight in the late 1990s/ early 2000s and would occasionally try exercising but never ended up sticking with it for any decent period of time. In mid-2006 I started working out fairly consistently on an elliptical trainer and the pounds started to come off slowly. Once I could do an hour on the elliptical, I thought I was in good enough shape to try running again. I entered an informal 2 mile race held by the local road runners and finished in 18:48. I was both really happy to have completed the race and also depressed by remembering how much faster I used to be back in HS. I started running once or twice a week (probably averaged 2-4 MPW) and cross-training almost all non-running days on the elliptical. The pounds were coming off faster and my times were improving bit-by-bit. In mid-December, some friends and co-workers encouraged me to sign up for the Lehigh Valley Half-Marathon which was 4 months away. I was initially pretty intimidated, but having a long-term goal helped, and I started running consistently( 3-5 days a week). I consider late December 2006 when I would first call myself a runner. By February, I was really enjoying running. In late April I was standing in the starting corral of the Lehigh Valley HM waiting for the race to kick-off and I was ecstatic. I couldn't believe that 10 months ago I was over 50lbs heavier and felt like I was going to die when running 2 miles. Now I felt confident I could complete 13.1 miles. I finished in 1:44 and enjoyed every minute of it.