Need tips on running.

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I heard alot of aspies are good runners, but unfortunately I am not. If I try hard, the most I can do is 2.4km in 14 minutes, which is rather bad according to school standards.

Anyway, I'm thinking of starting an excercis routine to cut down to 2.4km in 12 minutes. How should I go about doing it? Like planning my routines and other stuff. Also how long would this take?

I'm no expert, but what I started doing was 1 hour of running/walking 3 times a week. I'd start out at a pace that felt like I could sustain for about 5 minutes, then speedwalk for 5 mins, and keep switching back and forth like that for the whole hour. Over time I started cranking up both running speed and distance before switching to speedwalking. After about 8 months I stopped needing the speedwalking breaks at all.

Radiohead, first thing is to assess yourself physically. If you are overweight, changing that will improve your time drastically. You also can go to a good running shoe store and have them look at your running stride. If you have any mechanical flaws, they can help you there.

As far as training goes, don't increase your distance more than ten percent a week. Stay off the pavement. Find a nice, safe park or other area to run where the surface doesn't kill your feet.

There are lots of good books on running. I think you can reach your goal sooner than you think.

Jerry Newport

i was a good runner back in high school, but nowadays it seems the only running i do is when i'm running out of patience or some thought is running through my mind

I can run relativly fast......... but thats more cause my college is like an exercise in sports just to get around it.

Footnote on running: I know of three aspies in L.A. who qualified for the Boston Marathon with times of 2:36, 2:40 and 3:02. That's hours and minutes of course. The 3:02 was run by Chris Craig, who became the youngest aspie in the USA to become a licensed, practicing psychologist.

Jerry Newport

I run on the treadmill whenever I'm watching TV. I can go up to 10 miles per hour on the treadmill (thats as far as it will move).

Breath through your nose when your running, and don't flatten your feet, run on the balls of your feet.

Running is simple. One foot in front of the other as fast as you can.

Now running and doing handsprings off of carr hoods and climbing fences I could give advice on.

If you are good at that, try the 3000m steeplechase!!

Jerry