C25K Challenge

Is anyone doing the Couch to 5K challenge? How's it going?

I did it three years ago. It's a great program. In fact, I would say it contributed to what I now call my running addiction. It's a great way to start slowly (and therefore avoid injury) and build continuously on successes. At the end, I not only finished the race, I won my age group! That was huge for me.

After the C25K try any of the beginner running programs available on Runners World (you pick your deadline 8 weeks, 12, 16, whatever and choose your goal: 10k, half-marathon, triathalon). They're also reasonable and suited to newbies. This next step helped me through the half of the Pittsburgh Marathon last May.

Yep, what Shmiller said. I started couch to 5K about a year and a half ago after hating running my entire life and hardly being able to run a whole mile even as an althetic child. Last year I ran 6 races from 5k-10k and am training for a half marathon this spring. I attribute all of my running motivation/abilities to following C25K. Starts you slow and builds up, but you can't just start and one day run a whole 5K. It definitely helped me to not give up!