re: Running advice requested for new runner (updated with new shoes!)

I promise this will work Whatever your current pace is do the following. To make my point I'll use a 6mph pace Run for an hour every other day Start running at 6mph in treadmill After .3 miles crank it to 7 After another .1 back down to 6 After .2 up to 7.2 After .1 back to base speed of 6 Keep doing this for the entire hour. If you can only run 5mph then do the same intervals only at a slower speed You will get faster, you will lose fat. In the army we called this running fartlinks h Once you have gotten faster start at a higher pace and keep going. Promise it will work. I'm back up to 8mph after being at only 5 in January Used to run 10 in my paratrooper days.