Anybody can become a runner, but there is a right way, a process that always works, and a wrong way. Sadly, many runners fail to discover that right process, the method that makes sense for runners at the cusp of running their first quarter mile

In fact, most people go about it in the exact wrong way because starting to run is not intuitive. Just because you played tag as a kid or could run the bases in little league does not mean you know how to run, how to become a distance runner.

One, you're not a kid; so, it won't ever be that easy again, if it was even easy then, and many will say it wasn't - and two, that wasn't distance running, anyway.

Running until you can't run any more, walking until you recover enough to run again, and repeating that process is not the way to do it.

Not to worry. I am here to help. There is nothing I like better than swooping in to rescue you before you get to the point of giving up, deciding you just don't have the body for it.

Believe me! That's not the problem!

It's key to note the huge chasm between someone who isn't yet running even 30 steps and someone who is running a mile or even running a quarter mile.

That's where most beginner programs fail you. They assume too much starting fitness. They are not realistic, not designed for the total non-runner, the extremely beginner runner, people who've never run before or people who've tried to run and failed, people who are older or overweight or both or people who have just never exercised.

All these people can succeed, and this podcast is exactly for those people.

I'm here to get you on the right path for what I call 'beginning' beginner runners or extreme beginners.

You must start at the right point, with the right amount of running alternated with the right amout of walking, and you must progress at an appropriately gradual rate.

I can stop you from making the two biggest beginner runner mistakes that most often lead beginner runners to put their running shoes on a shelf, permanently.

You need to know exactly how to start running, what to do the first week and every week after. You need to start at Beginner Runner Square One. That's what you get from me.