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i recently started running too and what i find helps a lot is to run with a group of people or at least a partner. i used to get gassed at about a mile and now i find myself running 3-5 miles every other day. i started running about 6 weeks ago. so i think its pretty good progress. the way we do it is to run at a conversational pace for the first couple of weeks. so if you can talk to the person next to you than you are in the correct zone. after the first couple of weeks we run at a conversational pace for the first half of the week and the second half of the week we run a little harder so that you could talk but you don't really want to bc your respiration is up. and eventually we will start the week in the "a little too hard to talk much" difficulty and progress from there. its a neat way to get in to it but it gets really tiring. at least its not like when i used to wrestle and had to run with trash bags on to cut weight. haha.

anyway, keep with it. in the end it is almost always worth the effort.