Ran again this morning ... pretty cold, although Spring is in the air. Was a nice clear morning, with
a bright half-moon shining; temperature around freezing but with wind chill felt like it was down in the 20's.
Stuck to the running schedule this morning - 3-minute run, 90-second walk, 5-minute run, 2.5-minute walk, 3-minute run, 90-second walk, finishing off with a 5-minute run. I have to say that it's getting a bit easier to run these distances.
I'm trying to incorporate a bit of feeding the spirit while I exercise the body. I listened to the Saturday afternoon session from the most recent General Conference. On Monday I listened to some chapters from the Book of Mormon in Portuguese which I had downloaded on Sunday after I discovered that the Church's website had them available. Very cool.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Still Chugging Along ...
even though I haven't posted in awhile I have been steadily training over the last 3 weeks.
I have been following this training schedule from the "Cool Running" website aptly entitled the "Couch-to-5K" Running Plan. As the training plan describes, "Too many people have been turned off of running simply by trying to start off too fast. Their bodies rebel, and they wind up miserable, wondering why anyone would possibly want to do this to themselves." That has pretty much been my experience to date. Whenever I have decided to get back into shape and start running, I always start cold turkey by running 2 to 3 miles, 2 to 3 times a week, and I usually last about 3 to 4 weeks before my body breaks down and I give up for 6 to 9 months before trying again.
This time I have been taking it slowly, gradually easing into running 3 miles at a time consistently. It's hard because I get impatient, but so far so good. My main nemesis to successful continual running has been shin splints, but this go-round I think that the gradual easing into the running has helped in not damaging my shins too bad.
Three weeks ago the running plan was 60 seconds of running, 60 seconds of walking, for a total of 20 minutes exercise.
Two weeks ago the running plan was 90 seconds of running, 60 seconds of walking, for a total of 20 minutes. (I modified the increments from the official running plan somewhat)
Last week the plan was jog 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes, alternating for 20 minutes.
Each of the last three weeks I've been able to get out three days during the week.
This week marks the beginning of the 4th week in the training plan, and the schedule called for jogging 3 minutes, walking 90 seconds, jogging 5 minutes, walking 2.5 minutes, jogging 3 minutes, walking 90 seconds, and finally jogging 5 minutes.
It was a good run, farther than I'd gone before. Not too cold, but cold is all relative. Weather.com says that it was around 35 degrees during my run. Lot's of moisture in the air but didn't rain on me; scattered clouds over head but I could see some stars. All in all a good morning so far.
I have been following this training schedule from the "Cool Running" website aptly entitled the "Couch-to-5K" Running Plan. As the training plan describes, "Too many people have been turned off of running simply by trying to start off too fast. Their bodies rebel, and they wind up miserable, wondering why anyone would possibly want to do this to themselves." That has pretty much been my experience to date. Whenever I have decided to get back into shape and start running, I always start cold turkey by running 2 to 3 miles, 2 to 3 times a week, and I usually last about 3 to 4 weeks before my body breaks down and I give up for 6 to 9 months before trying again.
This time I have been taking it slowly, gradually easing into running 3 miles at a time consistently. It's hard because I get impatient, but so far so good. My main nemesis to successful continual running has been shin splints, but this go-round I think that the gradual easing into the running has helped in not damaging my shins too bad.
Three weeks ago the running plan was 60 seconds of running, 60 seconds of walking, for a total of 20 minutes exercise.
Two weeks ago the running plan was 90 seconds of running, 60 seconds of walking, for a total of 20 minutes. (I modified the increments from the official running plan somewhat)
Last week the plan was jog 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes, alternating for 20 minutes.
Each of the last three weeks I've been able to get out three days during the week.
This week marks the beginning of the 4th week in the training plan, and the schedule called for jogging 3 minutes, walking 90 seconds, jogging 5 minutes, walking 2.5 minutes, jogging 3 minutes, walking 90 seconds, and finally jogging 5 minutes.
It was a good run, farther than I'd gone before. Not too cold, but cold is all relative. Weather.com says that it was around 35 degrees during my run. Lot's of moisture in the air but didn't rain on me; scattered clouds over head but I could see some stars. All in all a good morning so far.
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