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Week A, Run 1
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rmc28I think I finally have enough ducks in a row to tentatively commit to running twice a week on weekdays, with optional bonus weekend running (e.g. giving Parkrun a try). The scheme I came up with in my head was:
Day 1: Walk 5 min to warm up, run for 30 min (turning around halfway), walk 5 min to cool down. Note total distance X km.
Day 2: Do similar pattern, except focused on distance rather than time, and aiming for 1.25 X in total (rounding up if necessary to make numbers easier).
Day 3: optional weekend run of known distance e.g. 5k Parkrun
So today I (eventually) escaped the house and children in the evening and did a very gentle Day 1. My first run of 30 minutes continuously, and it went well. According to Runkeeper, I covered 4.14km. My 1.25X turns that to 5.18 which I am going to call 5.2km.
I'm a bit ambivalent about including my warm up and cool down in the timing; on the one hand I wouldn't if doing Parkrun or an organised event; on the other, I'm much more likely to be running by myself than in organised events so I feel I should go with whatever's easiest for me, and the c25k app got me used to measuring total distance including the warmups. Looking at my km splits, my warm-up walking was not much slower than my running; but my cool down walking was a lot slower.
I may also noodle around looking through the various free "workout" plans that Runkeeper comes with and see if I want to follow one of them instead of my self-invented plan.
Day 1: Walk 5 min to warm up, run for 30 min (turning around halfway), walk 5 min to cool down. Note total distance X km.
Day 2: Do similar pattern, except focused on distance rather than time, and aiming for 1.25 X in total (rounding up if necessary to make numbers easier).
Day 3: optional weekend run of known distance e.g. 5k Parkrun
So today I (eventually) escaped the house and children in the evening and did a very gentle Day 1. My first run of 30 minutes continuously, and it went well. According to Runkeeper, I covered 4.14km. My 1.25X turns that to 5.18 which I am going to call 5.2km.
I'm a bit ambivalent about including my warm up and cool down in the timing; on the one hand I wouldn't if doing Parkrun or an organised event; on the other, I'm much more likely to be running by myself than in organised events so I feel I should go with whatever's easiest for me, and the c25k app got me used to measuring total distance including the warmups. Looking at my km splits, my warm-up walking was not much slower than my running; but my cool down walking was a lot slower.
I may also noodle around looking through the various free "workout" plans that Runkeeper comes with and see if I want to follow one of them instead of my self-invented plan.
