Well, a little time has elapsed since my first two runs,  I have now finished run 7!  

With running to the C25K program I have found that I wasn't particularly improving, mainly how I breathe seemed to be preventing me from going on successfully to the next step.  My other half, and now my personal trainer (though he doesn't like me calling him that) could see I was getting distressed - I think the tantrum tears gave it away - felt that I wasn't challenging myself enough, and maybe the short bursts of stop/start were wrong for me.  He came up with the idea that maybe I should try running as far as I can, then trying to improve on that with each new run.  Well...

I gave the first run of this new program a try, I managed a little further than I thought, but still felt my breathing was not in control.  I know it is that which is holding me up, and no matter how I tried to count steps, breathe through my mouth only, breathe through my nose an out through my mouth and various other ideas I just couldn't bring it under control.  I am going to try again on my next run and relax a little more about what I'm doing.  I hope this will help!  

I have just read on a running page that if you can't bring your breathing under control that you should see your doctor.  I think I will give it a little longer before I go down that route, but it is definitely  worth considering.  I'm not a natural runner, and I really do know that it is going to take a lot of effort on my part to get there, but I'll keep going - In my head I think that I should be able to do 5 K by now - totally impossible for a 50 year old who has never run before and has only been doing it 3 weeks!!  I think my expectations really do exceed the reality!

I'm looking forward to tomorrows run, I must be a sadist or something!