run 3 miles a day

I want to run today three miles tonight because its hard to stay in shape and over ther past year since i have been in school i have gained weight and since i didnt workout today and i want to start off in a new leaf and to work out. to begin is start running and get my body loose from the toxins…..

I used to do 5 miles every other day, but my motivation went outta wack..so now I am at 2 miles most days and want to aim for 3…I want to lose 15 lbs in a year (which is hard at 140lbs for me) but I think I can do it if I achieve this goal!!

hi
my name is jacob and im new here so i guess i will start off by telling you my story and my goal. all of my life i have been fat and picked on. It was always hard for me to be in the presence of my father( hes not mean or anything)because he is a retired army veteran and use to run ten miles at a pop. were talkin about seven minute miles baby! he was clockin it. i was always eating and depressed and i never wanted to do anything. i thought that i was gonna be fat forever so i just stopped caring. alot of my eating and sedintary lifestyle was caused by depression which i believe started when my mother and father split. for anyone who is addicted to food like i was you know what im talking about. when you are addicted to food and you eat it stimulates you and you feel happy and uplifted but just like any other drug you come down and when you do reality hits….your fat and you just ate a bunch of food that is gonna go straight to your thighs,legs and gut. so you eat more food to make that feeling go away. its a neverending viscious cycle that claims many lives in america today. but enough about woe is me, lets get down to brass tax. one day i woke up and said things have got to change. that night i walked a mile. then i did the same the next morning this continued for about two months then i started jogging. in total i have lost sixty pounds in six months. tonight i will go run and i will shoot for 3 miles. i have been running for the past three weeks and i have only been doing two miles so tonight i will try for three. for anyone who is looking to start running and needs some tips just contact me at i_hate_shorty1@yahoo.com and i will e-mail you my diet and how I started running and try to help in anyway i can. wish me luck=)

I have been running 5 miles a day, which I am feeling awesome about!

Until January 2007 I never ran a mile in my life. I saw a notice about a marathon comming up in a few months, and decided that while there was no way I could do a whole marathon (not yet at any rate!), I was going to try the 5K. So I started running. A half mile one day, working my way up to a mile, then two. Now I’m at 3-4 miles a day. It’s so rewarding testing yourself, to find out what exactly you’r capable of, and how much your mental state can have on what you can do!

I’m not a runner, but I really enjoy the ease of the exercise, and it’s so much cheaper than joining a gym and not going. It’s going to be hard to keep up as the summer progresses, but I’ll keep trying. It’s good to live in a running city. Crazy runners. Everywhere.

We finished the CP-10K and then life exploded. I’m hoping to pick it up again, but my running partner has had early meetings so it’s going to have to be all me. We’ll see if I have a runner in me. I’m actually missing the soft pad-pad of my feet on the pavement and the the sense of accomplishment I have after I’m done. There’s a lot left to be desired in my thoughts while I’m actually running, though. But I need to get out. Walking the dogs isn’t providing enough exercise for me—too many sniff breaks.

Im 19 years old, Ive never been in much shape, although i try not to let myself go too badly. my weight is 170, and i want to be at 140, i work in a warehouse so it helps with my upper body work, but i do have a bit a of a gut and my medium size shirts are getting tight. ive never been much of a runner, for the last 2 days ive walked for 3 miles, 1.5 there 1.5 back. I havent ran at all yet, and i dont plan on it till next friday when i can buy some new running shoes. right now i own military boots and they are unplesent to run it. so today i will walk 3 miles after i get off work. I find myself most comfortable when i do my walks around 3am in the morning, “less people to see you” wish me luck. im a bit of a blogger so ill give constant updates. ill also try to post my times, (they wont be fast cause i hate running)

I used googlemaps pedometer http://walking.about.com/library/walk/blgooglemap1.htm# and realized that the route we’ve been running in 25 minutes is actually 3 miles. Oops. And we’ve been doing this pretty consistently. I’m going to keep this goal up for a little while longer as we’re doing this every other day, but I don’t know if we can do it consistently for a month. We’ll see.

The lack of sleep and the stress of living is wearing down my running partner, and I’m not being motivational enough to get us both out. I feel like I should be, but I’m the one that thinks it’s important to take a moment to breathe and heal, rather than pushing through the pain. Stop for a second. Tomorrow might not come, but why not hope for the best and not kill yourself today? We’re up to 28 minutes, running at a faster pace each time, and the finish is usually strong, but my partner is wheezing and panting, whereas I’m holding back a little still (even with my own lack of sleep and stress). So we’ve cut down to taking breaks on the weekend and not running for two days in a row. Since we pushed the program so much to begin with (running every other day, instead of the recommended three days a week), I don’t feel so bad about it. But I’m hoping things improve soon. I like running with someone, but I’ll run on my own if I have to (I guess. Ugh). Plus my baking class has me making cream puffs and lemon curd and it’s not helping my diet.