Kim, you will always hurt more after a buggy run, but like anything else, your body gets used to it. I am used to running and i still feel it more after a buggy run than a no-buggy run. It is a good thing - your body is getting stronger. No-one should be in injured pain, but that little ache when you move where your muscles go "ooch!" is telling you that you have reached their limit and demanded a bit more.

Bodies will only ever do what we ask of them. To get more you have to demand more. You can't get fit to run 10 miles by running 9 miles, as my gym buddies tell me. And it's true. I'm up to running 6k with DD and it not killing me. 10k would probably injure me, but 7k might not, so i'll run 7k, and after a few 7k runs 6k starts to feel easier. I can actually remember last year, getting towards my half marathon when i was running 15-17.5k, when 7.5-10k was my FAVOURITE part of a run. THe early aches are gone, the later aches haven't set it, it felt incredible. But now i hit that feeling between 3 and 5k, because i only run 7k tops. A well-functioning body will do the minimum you demand - economy prevents starvation and allows for only the growth needed in a less well-appointed lifestyle.

If your wobbly bits hurt from jiggling you might want to invest in support undies (i know, unattractive and sweaty, but SO worth it for the comfort!). We wear a sprots bra to protect our BBs from impact, protect everything that needs it. In a few months you won't have those jiggly bits any more, so love them, be good to them, and they will leave you in peace

Emma - fitness doesn't work like that. There is something called muscle memory, whereby things you have done your muscles remember and cope more easily with in the future. Thus even if your muscles have lost the running aptitude you'd built up they will still not be as new to it as they were when you'd never really run much. SO....go run! Seriously, the first time you will feel terrible probably, like you want to die, like every limb is going "RUNNING?! What the hell is running?!" but by the 2nd or 3rd time it will be so much easier, WAY easier than the 2nd or 3rd time when you first began, kwim? They complain as much as the first time but they remember and get on board much quicker. I went from running 21k and had a whole month of NOTHING at all, then began slowly again and really truly it took about 2 weeks to be running 4k - the first time it took 3 MONTHS. GO EMMA!

Acria - that is amazing hun! I only had about 3kg to lose when i first began running and i used to get visual disturbances after about 40 seconds and couldn't see properly where i was going! Keep at it and within a few weeks you'll be flyin' along

Bx