First, how have you been doing on your Couch to 5k program? I’ve been walking 20 minutes every day at lunch. The 260 minute total was the minimum you should have walked in Month 1/Phase I of this more conservative C25K program. I found this program over at Beginner Triathlete. The [...]
The time has come to re-initiate the Couch to 5k program that I had to abandon a couple months ago. Knee pain is gone. I’ve been walking, though not as “religiously” as I had planned. With the extra walking, the knee wasn’t getting better fast enough. I stopped the walking for [...]
So, my road to running God has been cut short. I mentioned that the running program that I’m following upped the time running. I also mentioned that week 5 seemed wholly impossible. Well as week 4 went on, especially my Thursday run pushed to Friday, I was ready for week 5. [...]
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Couch to 5K: Week 5 Looms
So it wasn’t a mistake, and it’s only going to get worse. Maybe it’s getting better. Power of positive thinking, right? Week 5 is still a couple days away, and at least one more run away in Week 4, but man. Week 5 is going to be a killer. I [...]
Holy Crap!! Week 4 is going to be a tough one. I don’t think I agree with the jump in running time. In week 3, I ran for 9 minutes total. In Week 4, I’m expected to run for 16 minutes. That’s a 77% increase!! I definitely felt the difference. [...]
Second day of week 3 of the Couch to 5K running program. This week the total number of minutes stays the same, but the length of run increases to 3 minutes. Whew!! After that 3 minutes my legs are tight. I probably need to have someone check out my running style [...]
Finally a full week’s worth of running the second week’s program. Just to recap this week it was six 90 second runs with two minutes of walking in between. Tack on 5 minutes on either end for warm up and cool down and you got yourself a workout. I’ve downloaded week 3 [...]
It started raining on me at the end of tonight’s run. I started over Week 2 of the Couch to 5K program. It only seemed right. It had been 5 days since I last ran and I’m in no hurry. Positive thinking really helped me in the last three intervals this [...]
Do, do, do, lookin’ out my front door. This is the view at around 2PM on Sunday afternoon. This storm is a good one. The two flows, one from each gutter, just combined in the middle of the street to form one uber river running down my street. Not good for [...]
Help me out. If you run, when is the best time to eat before running? Is there at good time. Maybe it’s just what I was eating. Is a taco not the best thing to eat before running? How about sushi? Let me know by leaving a comment or [...]
