I want serious help now

malmo wrote:

water from the forest wrote:

david, did you grow up very inactive (not involved in any sports or playing outside for fun, spending the day outside, running around in fields/roads/playgrounds and so on)... and before and during you started running just sat during the rest of the time? I am just wondering. When I grew up, there were not really many or any fat people at least where I was (I am not even joking, I looked at an old picture the other day and there were no fat children or adults, and there were a lot of people in it), everyone was very active (hours a day and full days at the weekend). Wow, I sound old now but even things like - there were only 4 TV channels.

So what I am wondering is if you don't have the essential ligament, muscle and skeletal strength to put your body through hard running right now. You don't run before you can walk! (hike.)

That is a result of the time you grew up in. I would imagine some of your schoolmates were exactly the same (not all, before you say that).

So in that case, TO AVOID GETTING INJURED AGAIN, start off with going for walks around where you live, then make them longer, then progress to hills (or steps if you don't have hills). You can add a rucksack (is it called that there - backpack?) and add in weight to that as time goes on. You need to be active. You need a base for running, people are so weak these days (no judgement on that, it's just a statement of fact, it is common). THEN go on to the C25K.

You are 19, you shouldn't be getting injured like this, and barring any kind of underlying problem (I think you said that had been excluded) it may be a lack of daily activity issue, at least in my opinion.

Also if you sit at a computer for 18 hours a day and then suddenly go running you ARE going to run into problems (no joke intended).

This is the one, and only one, answer.

You need to start walking, NOW, an hour a day, every day. Two hours one day a week. Don't even think about running. There are hundreds of millions of people whose very existence requires them to be able to walk two hours a day. Surely you can walk an hour a day at a time.

After a few weeks then push your daily walks up to 1:15 to 1:20. You might even try substituting some portion (20 minutes) of some your daily walks with slow jogging, but you need to keep the walking minutes up and consistent every day.

Had you been born in another time or another place you would have already been eaten by the jackals/wolves/hyenas/lions. Had you been born in a war-torn country you would have not survived.

An hour a day, every day. No excuses, no circular explanations why not. No drama. No posting about it for at least a month.

March 1st give us a progress report, but not until then.

STFU about this until March. Really. It's for your own good.

SonicandTrails wrote:

thiscupisnthalffull2 wrote:

This is why you need a log.

Last few thread you were telling us how you were doing 20 minutes at 12 minute miles pace 5 days a week.

Now it's 40 minutes at a hard-ish effort.

If you can't give a true/accurate statement on what you were doing, it becomes harder for people to give you help.

This is exactly why I think that david45 is an elaborate troll, and not an actual person. Anyone that's as "serious" about training as david would have their workouts on some kind of workout app: strava, nike+, etc. There's not many people out there - and certainly not many 19-year-olds - that aren't tracking their running either with a watch or a phone app.

It's too much work for the troll to actually go out and run "40 minutes hard" everyday - this person is a keyboard warrior.

I would say until this guy starts actually links his workouts, everyone should just assume he's a troll and ignore him.