No, that doesn't mean I'm running a 5K in 25 minutes. Not at all. I'm still not even sure that I'm ready to attempt a 5k yet, but I can manage to actually run 25 minutes without getting winded. It's still a very, very slow pace, but I'm doing it! I've done it every day this week so far. It hasn't been easy. I find the first 10 minute mark the worse. I want to quit about the 8 minute mark but once I over come that I'm okay. Still only doing it by doing laps in my rec room yet and still doing it bare feet.
I'm not sure if I told you about the bare feet factor before. :) I hate wearing anything on my feet and I haven't actually been fitted for runners yet. Maybe this weekend. We'll see. I haven't worried about it because I'm just running in my rec room but I'm going to need to get runners to actually get outside. I'm a little worried about the adjustment it will be for me to actually wear runners. I'd like to be able to find something that feels like nothing on your feet. I wonder is there anything out there like that?
Besides my regular inside runs I have actually had some outside walks this week. I have a pair of comfy shoes that I wear for that. I walked Monday and yesterday and I would have walked Tuesday but it was pouring rain and I don't have rain gear. I improved my distance and kept my speed up for both walks, though last night's walk was faster than Monday's. Last night I went for a walk with my long legged daughter and that helped me pick up my speed - I had no choice. :) We walked for 2.57km at a speed of 4.67km/hr!
I am still enjoying watching my total distance increase on my workout calendar on MapMyRun.com. I'm up to 25.70km total now.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
So excited!
I am now an official member of a running club! You have no idea how excited that makes me. I have been following the Corner Brook Running Club blog for a while now and when I read today's post I sent off an email saying I was interested in being a member even though I didn't live in the area. There are no running clubs in my community and this is the closest one that I know of to where I live. I got an email back telling me that I was now an official member of the Corner Brook Running club! Yeah!! I don't know if I'll ever get to actually run in an event they put off but I'm hoping some day I might.
Another thing that has me excited today is seeing the top of my training calendar at MapMyRun.com say that I now have done a total distance of 10.62km! I only started logging my activity on Thursday. I am loving seeing that number go up. It's a real motivater.
I did another outside walk today and I was thrilled that I did it without getting winded and without any pain. I also increased my speed and distance! I still only managed to do 3.17km and my speed was only 4.76 but it is an improvement of my last distance and speed and for that I am happy.
One other thing - I realized why my outdoor walking speed is slower than my indoor walk/run speed. I am doing my indoor walk/run in my rec room, with only about a 16 x 8 foot space to do laps in, so I don't really get to build up much speed before I have to slow to turn. I'm confident that my running speed will be better once I actually start running outside.
Another thing that has me excited today is seeing the top of my training calendar at MapMyRun.com say that I now have done a total distance of 10.62km! I only started logging my activity on Thursday. I am loving seeing that number go up. It's a real motivater.
I did another outside walk today and I was thrilled that I did it without getting winded and without any pain. I also increased my speed and distance! I still only managed to do 3.17km and my speed was only 4.76 but it is an improvement of my last distance and speed and for that I am happy.
One other thing - I realized why my outdoor walking speed is slower than my indoor walk/run speed. I am doing my indoor walk/run in my rec room, with only about a 16 x 8 foot space to do laps in, so I don't really get to build up much speed before I have to slow to turn. I'm confident that my running speed will be better once I actually start running outside.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Update and neat site
I've managed to run for 25 minutes straight, in between the walking warm up and cool down, every day this week. I'm so proud of me! I even did something extra today - I went for a 35 minute walk outside this morning, beside the regular 40-50 minute walk/run in the rec room in the afternoon.
I also finally tried out this really neat site that I came across a while back - MapMyRun.com . When I came back from my walk this morning I was curious about how far I went, I remembered that with this site you could map your route out and they would tell you how far you went. I had tried it out before and knew you could do that without signing up to be a member. I was pretty excited to find out that I walked almost 2.5 km. After checking out the other features available on the site I decided to sign up for the free membership option. This allowed me to make a log of my activity. When I did that I found out that based on the information you enter they calculate your speed in km/hr. I thought that was pretty neat.
This afternoon while I was doing my regular walk/run in the wreck room I decided to actually count the laps and use the measurements of the room to figure out approximately how far I walked/ran and to enter that in the log for today too. I was surprised to find that my walk/run speed was slower than my outdoor walk speed!
I am a really, really slow runner and I knew that but I didn't realize how slow until I went searching for some comparisons. My speed for the walk this morning was 4.17 km/hr, whereas my speed during my walk/run session this afternoon was 3.3 km/hr . According to activity classifications on the site my speed, even when I run, is actually considered a slow walk. I refuse to be discouraged by that or to put much thought into it. I am proud that I am actually moving, even if it is slow, and I will celebrate that, rather than bemoan my lack of speed. I will plod on. I may get faster and I may not, but I will not quit!
I am also quite proud to look at my training calendar on the site now and see posted across the top that I did a total distance of 4.97 km today. That is very encouraging!
Be sure to let me know if you try the site out and let me know what you think of it.
Happy walking/running!
I also finally tried out this really neat site that I came across a while back - MapMyRun.com . When I came back from my walk this morning I was curious about how far I went, I remembered that with this site you could map your route out and they would tell you how far you went. I had tried it out before and knew you could do that without signing up to be a member. I was pretty excited to find out that I walked almost 2.5 km. After checking out the other features available on the site I decided to sign up for the free membership option. This allowed me to make a log of my activity. When I did that I found out that based on the information you enter they calculate your speed in km/hr. I thought that was pretty neat.
This afternoon while I was doing my regular walk/run in the wreck room I decided to actually count the laps and use the measurements of the room to figure out approximately how far I walked/ran and to enter that in the log for today too. I was surprised to find that my walk/run speed was slower than my outdoor walk speed!
I am a really, really slow runner and I knew that but I didn't realize how slow until I went searching for some comparisons. My speed for the walk this morning was 4.17 km/hr, whereas my speed during my walk/run session this afternoon was 3.3 km/hr . According to activity classifications on the site my speed, even when I run, is actually considered a slow walk. I refuse to be discouraged by that or to put much thought into it. I am proud that I am actually moving, even if it is slow, and I will celebrate that, rather than bemoan my lack of speed. I will plod on. I may get faster and I may not, but I will not quit!
I am also quite proud to look at my training calendar on the site now and see posted across the top that I did a total distance of 4.97 km today. That is very encouraging!
Be sure to let me know if you try the site out and let me know what you think of it.
Happy walking/running!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Faithful in training but not in blogging
I have been totally unfaithful in blogging here. To be truthful, I was disappointed in the lack of participation from those that had expressed interest in joining us in the challenge and I started to look on this blog as a waste of time and effort. Add to that my sister, who has been helping me with this blog and is the only one that I know for sure is still interested in doing this challenge with me, has been plagued by injuries and has had to take a rest from running. Sooooooo....the blog has been on the back burner for a while.
I've been arguing with myself lately about keeping up with this blog or just sharing about my journey on my personal blog. I have decided to try, at least for a while, keeping this on the go and we'll see what happens. The format of the blog posts here, however, will change. We had been trying to do 2 posts a week with the first post of the week being a posting giving the goals to shoot for that week, according to where we were in the Couch to 5k training program, and the second post of the week being a kind of report in/encouraging post. I've decided to forget the goal giving posts and just do updates of how I am doing, hoping that it will encourage someone else. While I liked the goal posts I really want to encourage everyone to set their own goals, whatever they may be. Hopefully when my sister gets back on track she'll join in with some posts too. Hopefully we'll also hear from you as to how you are doing.
Thankfully, even though I've been slack with blogging, I have been doing great with training! The whole month of March and April, and continuing into this month, I have been steadily working on setting a routine and goals that work for me. From 12:30 - 1:30 every weekday my rec room turns into my gym. I don't always start right on at 12:30 because sometimes I have to clear away the toys before I can start but I have been managing to get in at least 40 minutes of walking/running every weekday. I start off with just slow walking for at least 5 minutes and then a little faster for at least 5 minutes, and then I break into my running, which would probably be considered fast walking by most people but it's the pace I can handle right now. I've managed to slowly and steadily work my way up so that today I actually ran for 25 minutes straight! After that I slow the pace but keep walking for at least 10 minutes as a cool down. I find the warm ups and cool downs are very, very important to me because it helps me not end totally worn out.
Anyway, I'm pretty excited about managing to run for 25 minutes straight today, and I didn't even feel winded. I don't know if I'll manage that again tomorrow or not but I am hoping too. We'll see what happens. I've been managing to do 20 minutes straight most days for almost two weeks now.
Soooooo, how are you doing? I'd love to hear about it.
I've been arguing with myself lately about keeping up with this blog or just sharing about my journey on my personal blog. I have decided to try, at least for a while, keeping this on the go and we'll see what happens. The format of the blog posts here, however, will change. We had been trying to do 2 posts a week with the first post of the week being a posting giving the goals to shoot for that week, according to where we were in the Couch to 5k training program, and the second post of the week being a kind of report in/encouraging post. I've decided to forget the goal giving posts and just do updates of how I am doing, hoping that it will encourage someone else. While I liked the goal posts I really want to encourage everyone to set their own goals, whatever they may be. Hopefully when my sister gets back on track she'll join in with some posts too. Hopefully we'll also hear from you as to how you are doing.
Thankfully, even though I've been slack with blogging, I have been doing great with training! The whole month of March and April, and continuing into this month, I have been steadily working on setting a routine and goals that work for me. From 12:30 - 1:30 every weekday my rec room turns into my gym. I don't always start right on at 12:30 because sometimes I have to clear away the toys before I can start but I have been managing to get in at least 40 minutes of walking/running every weekday. I start off with just slow walking for at least 5 minutes and then a little faster for at least 5 minutes, and then I break into my running, which would probably be considered fast walking by most people but it's the pace I can handle right now. I've managed to slowly and steadily work my way up so that today I actually ran for 25 minutes straight! After that I slow the pace but keep walking for at least 10 minutes as a cool down. I find the warm ups and cool downs are very, very important to me because it helps me not end totally worn out.
Anyway, I'm pretty excited about managing to run for 25 minutes straight today, and I didn't even feel winded. I don't know if I'll manage that again tomorrow or not but I am hoping too. We'll see what happens. I've been managing to do 20 minutes straight most days for almost two weeks now.
Soooooo, how are you doing? I'd love to hear about it.
Friday, April 10, 2009
What week and what month is it anyway?
Just in case anyone is wondering...I've reverted to being a couch potatoe. I was doing very well but started having a lot of pain in my right heel. Plantar fasciitis... and it is NOT fun. I haven't ran and was having a lot of pain walking but not so much now. I'm waiting for some orthotics...and then I am hoping to get back on track.
Monday, March 16, 2009
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
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
Monday, March 9, 2009
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?
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?
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