beginner

This is a great site - just found it today and have been downloading various fitPod mixes. I was looking for other beginners to chat with and get some motivation from but the only blog I could find was Andrews....? Am I missing something? At any rate, I used to run and in the past, have completed 4 half marathons (nothing spectacular time-wise, but hey, I did them!). Then I hurt my knee and had to stop running...couldn't find anything else to take its place, got depressed... and gained a HUGE amount of weight. Now I'm facing the gargantuan task of starting from zero. I can't believe I got to this point...so now I have started to walk and in a week or so will begin to incorporate some running "breaks" into my walk, and so on. If there is anyone else out there looking for someone to lean on, chat with, or just find some inspiration/motivation, give me a holler.

Urg, ouch, my god I ache.... and there are holes in my feet.....

So, last week I was in Chicago and decided to buy some Nike + running shoes to go with my nano. Great product combination if you haven't tried it, but a few little teething problems for me at the start.

Come the first run, on the hotel treadmill, I found that the shoes were agony. It felt like there were 2 small tacks pushing into the arch of my foot, in the same place on each foot. So, I plodded on towards my 5K target, and at 4K got a bit tired, so I pressed for my power song (Crazy, Gnarls Barkley) and accidently hit menu and the centre button... oops! The ipod reset and I lost the data. Back in the hotel room I checked my feet and had a couple of small punctures, checked the shoes and found nothing, so I blamed the socks.