comeback

Aim to improve your current fitness by one second at a time.

take it easy, Rome wasn't built in a day, avoid injuries and lose some weight. good luck

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Don't worry about your 5k or racing for now, just improve your overall health and fitness. Run on a consistent basis, begin some light weight lifitng and a core program, improve your eating habits, and increase/progress on all these as you adapt. After a year or so, once you've gotten back in shape, fine tune the speed and then think about racing. One step at a time, guy. It won't work if you rush back into it.

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Well, I finally started the comeback this week. The holidays added another 5 pounds, I'm at 165, 25 pounds over my running weight and woefully out of shape. ( I'm 47, 252 marathon pr, 1620 5k pr in my 20's, 1822 when I was 42) I've decided to start extremely slow, actually only 1 mile per day to start with, at a fairly comfortable pace. Then, I will gradually increase over time. I'm sure may people couldnt care less, but for my own motivation, I'm going to post here daily, updating my progress.

Day 1 920 mile(man, i'm out of shape! Ran a 2nd mile, slowed to 10 min)

Day 2 859 mile

Day 3 855

Day 4 8:14! Must admit, the weather broke and I had a strong wind at my back, but its amazing how psyched I was to run that, felt like back in the day when I ran a good race. Good to get that feeling back- its been 5 years.

Day 5 807.

Instead of trying to run faster, I would suggest you try to increase the amount of miles you are running. get to running an hour a day and then try to make the miles increase per hour.

I tried to do as you are a couple of years ago, and I ended up injured. I have struggled to get back in the swing of running ever since.

Bob,

First, congratulations on a great decision.

I'm on a similar path as you, but I've been on my comeback a little longer.

Cross training a bit and a focus on weight loss have been a big focus for me.

If you want to pick up on any of the advice provided to me by letsrunners, here is the thread for that:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3780094

Good luck!!

- ID

thanks for the encouragement and advice guys. today i ran 2 miles took it real easy 19 min.

dude how old are you? Tell me about yourself. Thanks for the added motivation. In a year I will mop the floor with you. Do you know who I am!

2 miles 1947.

Boehner I'm waiting to hear back from you tell me all about yourself , once again I will mop the floor with you when I get back in shape,

2 miles FR1913

SA 1859

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Dude, if you only weigh 165 you are not that fat. If you cannot run faster than 8-9 minute miles, you are awful. Give it up and take up poker or something.

I'm 5 10, was 130 -135 racing weight back in the day. I have a very lean frame trust me 165 is fat, come on its 30-35 lbs. overweight! PR'S 1555 5K and 2610 5 mi in my prime, won over 25 road races. Over the yrs slowed to 1755 as a 45 yr old in 2005. After 5 yrs off with the extra 25-30 pounds my pace is about right. I'm awful? How old are you ? Dude did you ever run as fast as me in my prime? A year from now, after I shed the weight and train steadily, I have no doubt I will return to that type of performance for my age group. But thanks for the motivation. I will continue my daily training. Hows about this: 1 year from today we each pick an upcoming 5k in our respective areas. I will continue to keep this thread alive, updating the progress of my training. Based on my email address/info Wejo and Rojo can confirm I am who I say I am. If you can somehow confirm who you are and your age ( hell you may be 25 ) heres what we will do. I post my results and you post yours and depending on our ages we can compare the two based on age graded results. Bring it on BEE-OTCH!

BOenher still waiting to hear back from you- wait are you the speaker of the house who cries like a p----y?