Well done Raul, I'll be happy if I can just get to the stage where running doesn't hurt! Cheers, Terry.
It just takes two months, at least that's what it took for me. I just designed my own schedule based on another one I followed ten years ago from a book I no longer have. Basically, you start running 8 minutes a day -yes, just 8 minutes-, in four shifts, separated by two minutes walking. That is: two minutes running, two minutes walking, two minutes running, two minutes walking, two minutes running, two minutes walking, two minutes running, two minutes walking.
Next week you increase two minutes total, that makes 10 minutes running: three run, two walk, two walk, two run, two walk, two run, two walk, three run. In 20 weeks you will be running an hour -I just jog by time, not by distance- I perfectly remember that the first weeks were very easy, it was painful in the 5th-8th or so, but by 10 week it didn't hurt anymore, you end up tired but not suffering. I'm positive there will be plenty of runners over here, so there would be more experiences on the matter. It has worked for me, as I had lost 25 lbs in these months, and I plan to lose almost the same before the marathon. Even if I can't finish I will end up doing such an improvement to myself. Only problem now is that it takes courage to get out to run under chilling weather....