I posted a while ago about how I had joined "Run/Walk for Life" a few months back - it is a managed programme where you slowly increase from just 5 or 10 minutes of walking or running around a field. At 50 minutes, you become a road member where you take to road walking/running. Once you are on the road you start walking for 4kms at a time. Every 6 sessions, you are meant to add 1 km to your walk. I am a walker (although I wish I were a runner) and I have reached the 5km road member mark. I should really be doing 7kms at a session but I haven't progressed more than 5km because I just don't feel strong enough to go for more. My current pace is between 10 and 11 min per km - so not all that fast really.

After my sessions, I generally feel absolutely exhausted. I have found that my ankles and hips and sometimes my knees ache so badly. I find the evening sessions are not as bad because I can just eat supper afterwards, have a hot bath and go off to bed but I find the Saturday morning sessions so very hard! I feel quite out of sorts and achy for the whole day, despite hot baths and taking a painkiller.

This past Saturday was the worst... After my 5km RWFL session I came home for a bath, then went out to do my monthly grocery shopping. When I got home three hours later, I felt horrendous. I landed up spending the rest of the day in bed or on the couch.

I have never been much into fitness which is why I chose RWFL as a managed way to increase my fitness and improve my health but I am feeling a bit demotivated by all the aches and pains I am experiencing
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Any of you who are knowledgeable about fitness who can enlighten me? Am I being a ninny? Will this get better? Is the weight (which I am trying hard to lose) causing too much stress? Any suggestions welcome!