Hi All,

I noticed that some of Blenders have an interest in starting running, so I thought that I'll share some links that might be useful for beginners.

Here you'll find some basic information about how to start, chose shoes, training plans for begginers, nutrition and other useful tips

https://www.runnersworld.co.uk/training/beginners/start-running

https://www.runnersworld.co.uk/training/beginners/how-to-start-running-today

Here is a nice collection of articles meant for beginners that cover pretty much 'everything'

https://www.runnersworld.co.uk/training/beginners

Here are YouTube channels with tips, stretching and exercise routines and some recipes

https://www.youtube.com/user/runtasticFitness

https://www.youtube.com/user/RunnersWorldTV

Here are some popular traininig apps

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clearskyapps.fitnessfamily.RunC210K

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.c25k

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.running.android

(this one has not only training plans but also plenty of useful articles and videos)

Popular running apps that also containg training plans

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strava

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runtastic.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nike.plusgps

(my favourite one ;) all for free ;) )

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fitness22.running

Other useful apps

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockmyrun.rockmyrun

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runtastic.android.runtasty.lite

If you like reading books then you might want to consider taking a look on this ones:

'Running well' by Sam Murphy and Sarah Connors - it's about 10 years old but have plenty of useful information for begginers about shoes, form, types of trainings, injuries and how to build your training program. it does not include any training plans

'How to run' by Paula Radcliffe - begginer friendly, much less in depth than the 'Runnin well' but also very useful, contains ewxample training plans.

'Beginners luck guide foor non-runners - learn to run from scratch to an hour in 10 weeks' by George Anderson - lots of tips, quite in depth and contains training plan for beginners.

I hope that some of you will find it useful, if not then sorry for making mess on the forum ;)