Originally Posted by boarderneil

Eli,

The above suggestions are great suggestions. If you find yourself in a bookstore, check out a book called "the runner's handbook." you could easily scan through the chapter on beginning runners programs that provide easy to remember begginer programs. I actually bought the books because I'm now training for a half marathon.

The best beginner program that I read was a ten week program of a minimum of 3 runs per week as follows (all of this is after a 10 minute warm-up walk):

1. Run (in minutes) 1-1-2-2-1-1 (2 minutes brisk walk breaks between runs)
2. Run 1-1-2-3-2-1 (2 minutes in between)
3. Run 1-2-3-3-2-1 (2 minutes in between)
4. Run 2-5-5-3 (1.5 minutes in between)
5. Run 2-5-8-3 (1 minute in between)
6. Run 2-3-10-3 (1 minute in between)
7. Run 4-12-4 (1 minute in between)
8. Run 3-14-3 (1 minute in between)
9. Run 2-16-2 (1 minute in between)
10. Run 20 minutes nonstop.

Also, find friends or something that motivates you. Your Nike shoes are equiped for Nike+ so if you had an iPod Nano - you could use a Nike attachment to keep track of your runs and create goals for yourself online. Its kind of fun, but not very accurate and sometimes fails.

Hope that helps!