Nov. 10th, 2013

liv: oil painting of seated nude with her back to the viewer (body)
[personal profile] liv
Lovely day, still too cold to run outdoors. I managed 10 mins at 7 kph and the rest at 6.5 kph without a break. I even managed to speed up again for the last 2 minutes. Still 3.3 km total.

So I'm just about clawing my way back to the level I was at by the end of the official C25K 9 weeks. Which is better than getting steadily worse, at least.
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
[personal profile] rmc28
I ran 5k yesterday (with 5 minutes walking at each end to warm up & cool down), after running twice in the week.

Now to do it again!  It's not a habit until I've done it for more than 4 weeks in a row, but I'm feeling pretty motivated right now about running three times next week, including more zombies.

Part of the motivation is spilling out into setting bigger goals.  My next one is to slowly increase my weekend run to 10k.  Right now, that feels basically achievable if I keep up running thrice weekly.  After that, I'm thinking about a half-marathon.  All the half-marathon training plans I can find assume a) 4 training sessions a week and b) at least two if not three of them being over 30 minutes.  So it's going to take some work to adapt my routine to that, or to adapt the training plans to my routine (which I suspect would be more successful, if slower).

I'm also wondering if I should move my half-marathon planning off [community profile] c25k as seems outside the remit I initially set for this community.  I'd still stay part of the community and cheerlead people doing c25k but maybe I need a "slow half-marathons" community now instead.  What do you think?

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