I just started Week 11 of the couch to 10k Program. It was relatively easy today, a 5 minute warm up, followed by run 25 min, walk 1 min, run 25 min, and then a 5 min cool down. Overall it went well, once I was on the second half of the program I had to stop and walk for an extra minute or two just to give my glutes a little bit of a rest. They cramped up a little, I suspect it is because I need to drink more water. My hydration efforts have been slacking a little bit this week.
My biggest accomplishments of this run were that I consistently knocked a good 20 seconds of my mph pace. I typically run about between a 15:10 and a 15:30 pace, today I ran about a 14:50 pace. As with all of my runs, I start off fairly slow while my body gets warmed up so as the duration of my runs increase my overall speed decreases. I did the math and I was running about a 13 flat on mile 3 today. With the warm-up and cool down included into my hour and 1 minute run, I was able to run 4.1 miles, which I think is pretty good considering I was running about a 17 minute mile per pace in October.
Right now I am setting my speed goals for the half marathons and the marathon. I think I may use Jarrod from Subway and Oprah as the litmus test, but more on that once I google to find out more about average paces, and etc. All I know is I kind of want to beat my husband at Frederick. Honestly, it probably won't happen because he is a very good runner. He is the kind of guy that can hammer out 7 miles in an hour and make it look easy, all while never having trained a lick. Basically, the complete opposite of me. But adding that little extra motivation to continue on and make sure I don't stop, or if I do stop for a short walk break, to start back up and continue running.
Also, I have decided that once my current 10k training program is over, I won't post as much. Right now, I am posting after every run, and in the case of purchasing spiffy new gear, because I am trying to get in the habit of making sure that I follow through with the blog. I am thinking it will probably be once a week in order to recap the week, unless I have a really humorous or enlightening story to share.
So that's it! Hopefully this time next week I will be sharing that I ran about 5 miles continuously, which would be awesome :-) Happy running!
My biggest accomplishments of this run were that I consistently knocked a good 20 seconds of my mph pace. I typically run about between a 15:10 and a 15:30 pace, today I ran about a 14:50 pace. As with all of my runs, I start off fairly slow while my body gets warmed up so as the duration of my runs increase my overall speed decreases. I did the math and I was running about a 13 flat on mile 3 today. With the warm-up and cool down included into my hour and 1 minute run, I was able to run 4.1 miles, which I think is pretty good considering I was running about a 17 minute mile per pace in October.
Right now I am setting my speed goals for the half marathons and the marathon. I think I may use Jarrod from Subway and Oprah as the litmus test, but more on that once I google to find out more about average paces, and etc. All I know is I kind of want to beat my husband at Frederick. Honestly, it probably won't happen because he is a very good runner. He is the kind of guy that can hammer out 7 miles in an hour and make it look easy, all while never having trained a lick. Basically, the complete opposite of me. But adding that little extra motivation to continue on and make sure I don't stop, or if I do stop for a short walk break, to start back up and continue running.
Also, I have decided that once my current 10k training program is over, I won't post as much. Right now, I am posting after every run, and in the case of purchasing spiffy new gear, because I am trying to get in the habit of making sure that I follow through with the blog. I am thinking it will probably be once a week in order to recap the week, unless I have a really humorous or enlightening story to share.
So that's it! Hopefully this time next week I will be sharing that I ran about 5 miles continuously, which would be awesome :-) Happy running!
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