If you have 20-30 minutes a day, 3 days a week, there's a program I'm doing (free, the outline is online) called Couch to 5K. I've never been a runner, so this is a new thing for me. Basically, it gets you from not being able to run at all, which it sounds like you can, to being able to do 5 kilometers, or roughly 2 miles. It takes 9 weeks to complete.

The nice thing about a program like this is that it's the same length of time, and you slowly build on your abilities instead of really shocking your system.

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

Thank you soooooooo much! It reallyyyy helpeed!!!

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