Committing to a 5k…
Good week so far! Increased my running time from 5 to 8 minutes without too much difficulty. The beginner’s schedule I’ve been following suggested a 2 minute walk break but I thought I’d like to stick to 1 minute if possible and that worked out fine. Doing that for 3 reps has gotten me about 2.2 - 2.5 miles - and (knocking wood here) no ankle or achilles pain. Well, a slight achilles twinge here and there but negligible. The way the rest of this schedule plays out, I hope to be running a continuous 30 minutes by the first week in November. I had pretty much planned on the American Heart Assoc. Heart Run 5k in early March but then I was thinking “why wait that long??” Now winters around here can be somwhat extreme so it’s hard to find too many races during that season, but they’re there - particularly around the holidays. So I found a Resolution Run 5k on 1/1/2005 in Syracuse, which is about an hour west of me, and I thought that would be a very fitting first race. Brian and I were never much for going out or partying on New Year’s Eve so no hangover danger to be had (maybe that will give me an edge over some of the other runners 
). Anyway, that’s the plan!
Comment by Susan
Wednesday October 13 2004 @ 8:34 am
Sounds like a great plan! I glad the pain is minimal, and the running is fun. That’s the way it’s supposed to be:)