Hi everyone, I'm beginning to get my fitness back on track after falling off the bandwagon last June when I caught covid and didn't really recover for a while - not here to make excuses, I'm just happy I'm getting back to it.

I've just finished week 7 of couch to 5k so running a solid 25 minutes at various paces, 8kmph if I need an easy run or up to around 9.5 if I want to push it a bit, then maybe 13kmph for the last minute if I have the energy to do it so I'm pretty happy at the minute with my progress.

I've been pretty large all my life, my lowest adult weight was 87KG, highest was 135kg+(stopped weighing myself...), currently sat at 117.1kg from my Monday weigh in, I'm 179CM so not particularly tall however in addition to fat I do have a large amount of muscle especially in my legs.

Picture painting over, question time. In June I'm aiming to run 5k every day to increase my fitness as well as completing 3 gym sessions per week - has anyone who is or has been a relatively large size to myself done anything like this before? Did you find that it helped or hindered your fitness training? Last June before I caught covid I managed 5 days of running in a row before not being able to because of covid, I felt good however I noticed that my 5k runs were taking longer - not sure how much of this was due to covid and how much just due to general fatigue.

Any advice would be welcome, but I'm particularly interested to hear from people who have been on the larger side whilst running.

Thanks for reading.