Month 3 Week 3 - 12 minutes of running

Well, according to the schedule the goal this week is to try to include 12 minutes of running in your 30 minutes set aside for training. So, at least three times this week set aside 30 minutes of time where you run for at least 12 of the 30 minutes and walk for the other 18.

Personally, I'm not up to that much running yet, but I'm working on it. As I told you a couple of weeks ago, I had to start over again because I was out of commission for couple of weeks because of a bug and then struggled to get back at it. The last two weeks, however, have been going great! I've actually worked out every day of the week, except Sunday the first week and except Saturday and Sunday last week. I've managed to work up to doing 8 minutes of running and this week I'm hoping to maybe get to the 12 minutes, we'll have to see how it goes.

I probably should mention that I don't do all my running together, in other words when I say I did 8 minutes of running it doesn't mean I was running for 8 minutes straight. I break my running up with walking. I am finding right now that I can only manage 1 minute of running at a time. I do a warm up walk of about 5 - 10 minutes and then I run for one minute and walk for one, and keep repeating until I reach my 8 minutes of running, then I just walk the rest of the time. Last week I tried running for 2 and walking for 2 but I found my calf muscles really tensing up and getting painful so I went back to 1 and 1. I am looking forward to the day when I can run the whole time and taking it slow and steady this way I know I will eventually reach that goal.

I'd love to hear how you are doing

Month 3 Week 2 - 10 minutes of running

This week the goal is to try to include 10 minutes of running in your 30 minutes set aside for training. So, at least three times this week set aside 30 minutes of time where you run for at least 10 of the 30 minutes and walk for the other 20.

Are you getting excited about the 5k yet? We are! We're actually starting to think about trying one earlier than we first thought! Keep yours eyes on the blog, cause ya never know when we're going to give it a try.

How are you doing?

5 and 10K runs in St. John's

I have just been browsing thru the runs coming up and thought I would post some of them:

April 10, 2009
Tely 10 practice run

April 26, 2009
Nautilus Mundy Pond 5K

May 3
Burton's Pond 5K

May 17, 2009
Nautilus Harbour Front 10K

June 6, 2009
Olivers Pond Sprint

July 12, 2009
Mews 8K

July 26, 2009
Tely 10

September 13, 2009
Nautilus Provincial 5K

I'm really starting to get this running bug (I think)...don't know if I'll be ready for a 10K this year but I will certainly be ready for a 5K...and may even try one sooner than expected!

How about you?

Month 3 Week 1

Yikes! I forgot to post the weekly goals! Sorry about that. Luckily my darling sister, and partner in this endeavor, was playing with the blog design this week and added a neat monthly goal feature to the side panel of the blog so you weren't left without knowing what this week's goals are.

This week we are to try to add 2 more minutes of running, that means our 30 minute workouts should now consist of 8 minutes of running and 22 minutes of walking. The easiest way to do this is to spread the running minutes out between the walking minutes, but it's really up to you how you do it.

Personally, I have had to start over again. I had a bug that knocked me off track for many weeks and I have decided that I need to slowly work at getting back on track rather than trying to jump in where we are. If you haven't started yet, or if you have been struggling too, it's not to late to start out fresh. This week I'm back to just walking and slowly getting a little faster at it. It feels good to be getting back on track.

So.....how are you doing? We'd love to hear from you.