Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Making a change.
I've decided to veer from the C25k program. My body isn't ready to run for that amount of time. Not carrying this much extra weight. I've been reading a book called Marathoning for Mortals and it has several training programs for walk/run combos. I think I'm going to work from that. Today I did this: Walk 5 min, run 6 min, walk 3 min, run 6 min, walk 3 min, run 5 minutes, walk 17 minutes. I covered 2.9 miles in 45 minutes. I think that my goal for now is to get that up to 3-6 minute runs and then eventually up to 8 minutes. OR I'll add another run segment and only walk 2 in between. Not sure yet, but I need to do this one for a few more times and get my heartrate lower while doing it. I'm going to spend the next month focusing on getting up to 4 miles in one hour.
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You are doing SO well Lisa!!If you are finding that the higher minutes are starting to wear on you just try to cut your walking minutes rather than adding running minutes. So if you are running 5 and walking 3 try running 5 and walking 2. You will find that that extra minute of running will bump your pace way up and your legs and lungs wont really notice it :D
Thats just my experience ;)
You need to get up here so we can go for a run and you can play with my heart rate monitor!!
Wow, Lisa! I just spent a few minutes getting caught up and I just have to say that you are AWESOME. I am so proud of you and I hope that you're proud of yourself.
Last year, on the day of the Race for the Cure in St. Louis, I saw a van parked a few blocks down from my house. The windows were painted with the message "Racing for the memory of my sister, Pam." It really touched me and I don't think I'll ever forget it.
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