Even if you have never run before you can be ready to run your first 5K by this spring. So make a New Years resolution that you will stick to. The program is fairly straight forward. You will run/walk three days a week for 20-45 minutes. Once you can run for 30 minutes straight you should have no problem running your first 5K race.
If you have not exercised in a while add a week or two to the beginning of this program of just walking three days a week for …

If you do much running, especially on paths or off road you need to check out MapMyRun. We’ve all taken the car out and driven our route to estimate home long our favorite run is. With MapMyRun that’s a thing of the past. Just sign up and you can look at a Street View, Satellite, or Terrain view (among others) of your route. Just click along your route and it will give you total distance. You can view elevation to see the how much you route rises and falls over …