Enjoying the Journey: Right on Schedule

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Right on Schedule

Here is the training program for a 5k race. I am planning to do one on April 26 at 9:00 am at Thanksgiving Point. For all of you who want to join in on the FUN it's not too late to start training. We have 9 weeks from this Saturday to be ready. This training program is 10 weeks but you'll find you can skip a few of the beginning weeks. Because of the cold weather I just started to train and I began with week #4. It is a challenge but it's fun to accomplish it and feel good.

You run only 3 times a week.

Week #1                   Week #6
Run 2 minutes easy                                   Run 9 minutes
Walk 4 minutes                                         Walk 2 minutes
Repeat 5 times.                                         Repeat twice, then run 8 minutes.

Week #2                                                   Week #7
Run 3 minutes                                           Run 9 minutes
Walk 3 minutes                                         Walk 1 minute
Repeat 5 times.                                         Repeat 3 times.

Week #3                                                   Week #8
Run 5 minutes                                           Run 13 minutes
Walk 2 1/2 minutes                                    Walk 2 minutes
Repeat 4 times. Repeat twice.

Week #4                                                   Week #9
Run 7 minutes                                           Run 14 minutes
Walk 3 minutes                                         Walk 1 minute
Repeat 3 times.                                         Repeat twice.

Week #5                                                   Week #10
Run 8 minutes Run 30 minutes

Walk 2 minutes Walk 2 minutes
Repeat 3 times. or a 5k race

This program is for people (like me) who have never run before. If I can do it so can you!!

Summer is just around the corner and this year is OUR YEAR!!!

Here is the race info

6 comments:

Liz said...: how do you sign up for it? The race.; February 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM
The Gatherum Family said...: You are awesome! I am excited to start running again after this baby-good luck with your training and the race!; February 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Becca said...: I'm totally going to try this with you. What a great thing to do with our 30th's coming up! How many times a week do you run? I'll have to get all the dets. Thanks for the motivation!; February 21, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Lisa Cannon said...: Good luck! I think I'll sit this and others out. I don't love running!; February 21, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Logan and Ashley said...: Yeah for you!! I am hoping to run the Boulder Boulder in May and it is a 10k. Yikes, but I think I can do it, I can run a 5k pretty well, so I have to just keep training. You should come over for it on Memorial weekend and we could run it... come on you know you need a break, we all do at some point!!!
:0); February 22, 2008 at 9:45 AM
kami @ nobiggie.net said...: When it is written out in minutes like that, it doesn't sound so bad. I want to join you.

Blogging on a trip...I know, I am addicted. :); February 23, 2008 at 1:36 PM