Something I have found very helpful with my runs is while I am doing my 5 min warm up walk I do a few really deep breaths and when running especially the 'big runs' i take it really slow and I hope the speed will come later lol . Hope this helps motivates a few of you, you can do it!!! That's just brilliant isn't it? A skip in your step this morning then ?? I wish someone had taught me to run at school like instead of thinking we could all just do it......i think i'd have had a lifelong passion for it “Suddenly, I was part of something. I was part of the running community. The more open I was about my running, the more open others were about theirs. I found out that runners love to talk about running.”