someone convince me to go running please!!!

i really really want to be a runner- but the thing is, i can never get up and do it- its really hard for me. but that's why i want to be able to do it! i'm thinking i'll run a mile 3 times a week to get started. but i cant get up and DO IT!!!!

i keep thinking, if you go running now it wont matter- it wont change anything. i have issues with committment.

can somebody tell me (forcefully if necessary :D) to get off my butt and RUN?! maybe if i heard it from somebody else....

Go with a friend! Bring your ipod! Do anything that makes it more interesting for you!  You'll be glad of it, and it is indeed an amazing workout.

Go someplace with a track if you can.  Walk a lap to warm up, then jog a lap.  Alternate as much as you need to.  You get good points for just going and doing it.

check out the learn to run thread, thats how I started. I used the mp3 podcasts for couch-to-5k.

Do it! Once you are running you will love how you feel, and missing a run will make you grumpy :) trust me :P

I am NOT a runner, but I'm also doing the Couch-to-5K program. I'm currently in Week 5, and -- I never thought I'd say this, but -- I actually look forward to running. For me, it's new, it's different, and it's still a challenge.

Oh, yeah - just do it! You know you want to...

I'm pretty much in the same boat, i really want to start running, but sometimes i just wanna slob out all weekend long, i need kick up the arse, so next weekend i am gonna do it, just run for as long as i can, even if its only 10 minutes. i'm gonna start slowly and build up

Hey,you know those  $116.00 pair of NIKE'S you can't afford, well make youself afford them!  Go run in these babies they feel like All That Technology ! The grey and white light weight technology NIKE'S are everything they are cracked up to be and you'll want to run in these. At least try them on .Good Luck

Actually I ran 1/2 a block the day before yesterday and it soooo pissed me off  I couldn't get too  far. Angry enough to feel determined to try it again and again until it comes out right! It really has to be a deep humiliation in you that breaks the mold and makes you strive for higher aspirations ones better than yourself harder earned.Laziness is painful.

Go with a friend and take an ipod and make it fun! If you havnt run much before...mix it with walking...try walking for 10 minutes and then do a 5 minute jog or something like that!

I was soooo not a runner.  It was the bane of my existence.  I can't tell you exactly what pushed me or inspired me, but I wanted to do something rather than just going to the gym.

My best-good-friend and I started going in the mornings before work (I don't have the motivation to go by myself in the am).  As we started, we'd set mini-goals for ourselves.  I remember when I couldn't run for more than 4 minutes on a treadmill.  That 4 turned to 7, from 7 to 10, 10 to 15.  After seeing 15 minutes, I decided I wanted to run a 5k.  With a hard goal in sight (I only had 2 months to train for something that I have never ran before), I started to train.  Her and I went to the track, we ran on treadmills, we met in the morning, sometimes at night, we did yoga, lifting.... everything!  I trained, she worked out.

2 months later, I ran a 5k with another friend of mine that didn't mind racing, in 35:02.

I've been hooked ever since.  I'm running again in October (5k), probably November, and in March (15k).  I want to train to run the Disney Half Marathon this season.

So believe me, start small.  Start by doing what is necessary.  Then by doing what is possible.  Suddenly, you'll find yourself doing the impossible!

Runners aren't born.  We train.  So go for it!  Lace up those sneakers, warm up, and start running!  (btw, great resource is www.runnersworld.com)

Welcome to running!  I promise, through the pain, comes glory. 

Another reason to go running: because you can! Our bodies were made to run, walk, swim etc.

I am 52, a runner for 25 or more years and an athletics coach in my spare-time. I am currently suffering from degenerative back disease and achilles tendons issues. And believe me, once you get addicted to running, the hardest part of running is not running! So run while you can. You are so fortunate.

Another motivational tip I give to my own athlete children: if you think "I don't feel like a run" or "I'm too tired/stiff/coming down with laziitis", then just say to yourself: "I'll put my kit on and go out the door and run for 5 minutes. If I still feel bad, I can turn round". People very rarely turn round when they follow that advice.

 

Go online and search for a marathon in a far away place that you'd like to visit.  Give yourself 10 months to train for it.  Register for the marathon and the pre-race expo, buy 2 pairs of excellent running shoes (you'll need them), buy a great heart rate monitor that can also track your pace, book a hotel room, flight, and car if necessary, find some way to track your progress.

Once you do that, go to www.runnersworld.com and get a training plan that gets you running for the first 6 months.  Click on the training link and then click on getting started.  Finish that up with a 5K or 10K and then put that information into the runner's world training calculator for a marathon plan.  Then run that marathon plan.

I did pretty much this exact thing.  Before I did it, I thought there was no freaking way I would ever run a marathon.  By the time I ran it, without changing my horrible diet, I lost tons of weight and felt better than ever.  Once I do it again (having a baby and moving to england from the US changes a lot of things including the ability to run when you want) I'll be eating much, much better (read the books Eat to Live and The China Study to see what I mean).

There's nothing quite so motivating as having 26.2 miles on a specific date staring you in the face to get you motivated.  The amazingly cool thing is you can see your progress if you track it right and that becomes a much more powerful motivator than the marathon itself (at least it was for me).  I literally saw minutes come off my times for the same route and same average heart rate in a couple week's time. 

Each week near the end of the training plan I was breaking a new personal distance running record.  At first it's scary.   I have to run 10 miles on Saturday?  Yikes!  But you do that and realize that it wasn't nearly so bad.  The next week is 12, then 14, then 16, and each time it's not so bad at all.  You feel like you could go all day.  You work your way up to 20 miles a day and you realize hold on a sec, this week I ran 5 miles, 10 miles, and 20 miles and I loved it.

I guess what I'm saying is that you don't know what you're missing out on by not running and having a reason to run (marathon, flight, car, hotel booked, gear bought) will get you over that initial hump.

Best of luck!