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I'm 42 and though always been into weight lifting, never ran for more than 30 seconds (usually to catch a train). I started on Couch to 5K on August last year,

I'm 42 and though always been into weight lifting, never ran for more than 30 seconds (usually to catch a train). I started on Couch to 5K on August last year, when I realised I was the one member in my team that didn't sign up for a 5K charity run in September! Running for a whole minute on the first week was extremely challenging and physically painful in the heart. I genuinely worried thinking I was going to have a heart stroke. The second week was even harder, as I realised my first week run wasn't truth whole minute as my podcast app was set to listen to 1.3x speed, so I ran less! Anyway, in 7 weeks I was able to do eight whole minutes and I could push myself to do more. I managed to finish the 5K charity run in 38 minutes, but due to covid wasn't able to run since. I highly recommend this podcast and once the weather gets better I will be resuming these jogs!

aembleton 4y ago
> I managed to finish the 5K charity run in 38 minutes Congratulations! That's a really impressive achievement. If you've got a parkrun near you, it's worth going along. I just find it helps to have a regular Saturday morning run for when I start losing motivation. https://www.parkrun.org.uk/ https://www.parkrun.org.uk/
- meitham 4y ago
  Thank you very much, and thanks for the link, yes indeed it shows Nonsuch as the nearest park so I will be gearing to join that soon.
poszlem 4y ago
Obviously if you have already checked that please disregard my comment, but running SHOULT NOT be "painful in the heart", as that is a symptom of your heart not getting enough oxygen (also called Angina). Please see a doctor before resuming your exercise (especially if you've got COVID in the meantime). It might be nothing, but it might save your life.
- meitham 4y ago
  Thank you, indeed this was Angina, but I have kind of brushed it off and carried on running and it seems to have fixed itself, where the symptoms disappeared. I have few fellow runners who said they all had it, and it usually disappears after crossing a certain theshould in distance. Though you're right, when I read about it online all the warnings tell me not to ignore it.

aembleton 4y ago

> I managed to finish the 5K charity run in 38 minutes Congratulations! That's a really impressive achievement. If you've got a parkrun near you, it's worth going along. I just find it helps to have a regular Saturday morning run for when I start losing motivation. https://www.parkrun.org.uk/ https://www.parkrun.org.uk/

meitham 4y ago
Thank you very much, and thanks for the link, yes indeed it shows Nonsuch as the nearest park so I will be gearing to join that soon.

poszlem 4y ago

Obviously if you have already checked that please disregard my comment, but running SHOULT NOT be "painful in the heart", as that is a symptom of your heart not getting enough oxygen (also called Angina). Please see a doctor before resuming your exercise (especially if you've got COVID in the meantime). It might be nothing, but it might save your life.

meitham 4y ago
Thank you, indeed this was Angina, but I have kind of brushed it off and carried on running and it seems to have fixed itself, where the symptoms disappeared. I have few fellow runners who said they all had it, and it usually disappears after crossing a certain theshould in distance. Though you're right, when I read about it online all the warnings tell me not to ignore it.