How long have you been running?

ROW · Postby **ROW** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:57 pm

I was just thinking about when I started running and was just wondering how long everyone had been running? It has been 10 months and 10 days since I barely survived that 5km at 7:00 p/km breathing and panting hard, feeling like I was going to die. In those 10 months I have made my 5km time go down to 19:35 and hope to get faster by June 21st, the day I started running.

La · Postby La » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:58 pm

12 years. Give or take a few months.

ROW · Postby **ROW** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:58 pm

That is a very long time! Almost my whole life. :shock:

bruyere · Postby **bruyere** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:00 pm

Blanken wrote:I was just thinking about when I started running and was just wondering how long everyone had been running? It has been 10 months and 10 days since I barely survived that 5km at 7:00 p/km breathing and panting hard, feeling like I was going to die. In those 10 months I have made my 5km time go down to 19:35 and hope to get faster by June 21st, the day I started running.

That's pretty freakin' awesome, Blanken!

For me, off and on for, I don't know... 7 years. But it was *really* off and on. I really started paying attention to it and doing it regularly in Summer 2004.

Postby **ultraslacker** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:00 pm

I started in the fall of 2003, on a treadmill. I "ran" for 5 minutes and thought I would die. Then I thought, "well if I can do 5 minutes, I can do 10" and the rest is history! :)

I stayed on the treadmill and maxed at 40 minutes until February 2005, when I decided I'd do something crazy like train for a marathon... then I took it outside and started increasing distances!

bruyere · Postby **bruyere** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:00 pm

Blanken wrote:That is a very long time! Almost my whole life.

LOL. Careful, there, young'un!

Jo-Jo · Postby **Jo-Jo** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:01 pm

Blanken wrote:That is a very long time! Almost my whole life.

Oh Blanken...some days you really do make me chuckle :wink:

I've been running for six years.
I started running at age 50...yes...Blanken...I know...you can't even imagine being 50 :twisted:

Don't you have some homework you need to do :roll:

BJH · Postby **BJH** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:03 pm

Somewhere around 12 years consistently, on and off for a couple of years before that. I had to run a bit in high school, too, for swim team. That would have been in the early eighties.

Doonst · Postby **Doonst** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:06 pm

In two months it will be five years! June 01, 2004. I was 47 years old.

Postby **Nicholas** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:07 pm

I'm not sure I want to answer this one...
I ran some cross country and played on the track in high school but really started the "running thing" in 1980. I'm a "noob" at heart.

ROW · Postby **ROW** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:09 pm

Jo-Jo wrote:
Blanken wrote:That is a very long time! Almost my whole life.

Oh Blanken...some days you really do make me chuckle

I've been running for six years.
I started running at age 50...yes...Blanken...I know...you can't even imagine being 50

Don't you have some homework you need to do

I didn't mean it as a bad thing. :lol:

I wish I had that much time to train to my age now.

BJH · Postby **BJH** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:09 pm

Nick wrote:I'm not sure I want to answer this one...
I ran some cross country and played on the track in high school but really started the "running thing" in 1980. I'm a "noob" at heart.

The last line in my post (and which I chose to omit) was going to be just wait 'til Nick chimes in ...

babysteps · Postby **babysteps** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:11 pm

Four years (but I'm very off and on). I thought I'd be better by now. Maybe that's because of the off and on thing. :wink:

Postby **Nicholas** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:15 pm

BJH wrote:
Nick wrote:I'm not sure I want to answer this one...
I ran some cross country and played on the track in high school but really started the "running thing" in 1980. I'm a "noob" at heart.

The last line in my post (and which I chose to omit) was going to be just wait 'til Nick chimes in ...

I'm waiting for the real "lifers" to chime in here!!!

Jo-Jo · Postby **Jo-Jo** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:16 pm

Blanken wrote:
Jo-Jo wrote:
Blanken wrote:That is a very long time! Almost my whole life.

Oh Blanken...some days you really do make me chuckle

I've been running for six years.
I started running at age 50...yes...Blanken...I know...you can't even imagine being 50

Don't you have some homework you need to do
I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I wish I had that much time to train to my age now.

I'm just "funning" with you

Funning is an expression my dh invented..it means teasing in the nicest possbile affectionate way

ian · Postby **ian** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:17 pm

Off and on for about 20 years and then my primary activity for about the last 5 years.

CinC · Postby **CinC** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:18 pm

definitely not a lifer - I DREADED the Canada Fitness Test. I loathed it. Because the worst part was the 'long run' portion. Didn't help matters that I was a fat kid growing up, but yeah. Not a lifer.

Started running the treadmill in Jan of 2002. Have taken breaks here and there, so I guess a bit over 7 years.

Dr. S · Postby **Dr. S** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:29 pm

First off congrats on improving your 5K time like that in such a short notice! That's really great

As for myself, I've been running on and off since 1993. I did track and cross country competitions in high school. Then running was very sporadic (on during cegep, off during B.Sc.). I started back from scratch in January 2006 (one of those NY resolutions) and I haven't stopped since. I've been/still am injured and slowed down a lot but keeping on trucking.

dgrant · Postby **dgrant** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:36 pm

Since that thing I dun in Texas.

rune163 · Postby **rune163** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:38 pm

17+ years in a track or ultra background and another year or two recreational and doing base training for baseball or basketball. so roughly 20 years. i've aged terribly. i used to be able to dunk on a ten foot net, now i can't even jump to clear a curb. i also used to be able to bend over and touch my toes, now i'm lucky to get a few inches below the belt. i used to be able to belt out the high notes of cher songs, oh nevermind, nothing to do with the miles on that one!
but it sure has been fun!!!!!

Postby **turd ferguson** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:41 pm

First run was almost exactly 10 years ago, been running seriously for 7.

I took up running to replace cycling (it was getting too hard to fit in 3 and 4 hour bike rides into my schedule), I needed a workout I could fit into a short time. Then I moved up to marathoning and its taking up even MORE time than cycling ever did.

Postby **ultraslacker** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:42 pm

Mike Runs wrote:First run was almost exactly 10 years ago, been running seriously for 7.

I took up running to replace cycling (it was getting too hard to fit in 3 and 4 hour bike rides into my schedule), I needed a workout I could fit into a short time. Then I moved up to marathoning and its taking up even MORE time than cycling ever did.

lol, funny how that works!

Ironboy · Postby **Ironboy** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:52 pm

Blanken wrote:
Jo-Jo wrote:
Blanken wrote:That is a very long time! Almost my whole life.

Oh Blanken...some days you really do make me chuckle

I've been running for six years.
I started running at age 50...yes...Blanken...I know...you can't even imagine being 50

Don't you have some homework you need to do
I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I wish I had that much time to train to my age now.

If you want to live that long you'd be wise to never point out how much younger you are than a woman. :doh:

Ah to be young again!

I've been at it for 5 or 6 years, depending on which run you count as my first.

I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to get started.

redhead · Postby **redhead** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:13 pm

Definitely not a life-long runner here either.
In three months it will be three years. July 01, 2006. I was 54 years old.
(Mind you, the middle part of year #3 was spent battling injury.)
I'm (discretely) kicking that Injury Demon's butt now tho! :twisted:

Hammie · Postby **Hammie** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:20 pm

Ironboy wrote:I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to get started.

I second that. I joined the RR LTR in August 2006, did the 5 k class in Jan 2007 and ... got pregnant on the first day

. Got back to running in Nov 2007, and did my first half marathon in Oct 2008. So overall, I'll say 2 1/2 years, although I just walked for the very pregnant part in the middle.

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