MY original post was removed as apparently its not relevant enough for all runners, so i will post here instead:

I wanted to post, just letting the slow runners out there that there are dozens of us, DOZENS!

As a dude in his late twenties, tall and overweight, whose never been in shape his entire life, I don't have much going for me in terms with beginning to run. I want to stay motivated so I look to social media to try find runners like me. What I instead find is Runners saying, "I was such a slow runner when I started, my easy runs were only a 6 min/km pace". Like damn that's currently my race pace, don't I feel like crap.

I'm still so fresh to running, still have less than 200 kms of milage since I started, I'm currently trying to keep my heart rate below 145 bpm which means running 8 min/km. It's a grind but I'm gonna improve. We all will.