This is sort of how I made myself sign up to the trek in the first place - if I put it in writing and involve someone else, then I am committed. So, lets see if this works:
the running (NHS Couch to 5K) plan is going so well that I am almost a week ahead of schedule. I started it at the beginning of the month and it's now the 21st and I am almost finished week 4. This is so promising, and I don't hate it yet that I thought I'd plan to get ahead of the schedule and write it. This will accelerate my fitness and get me running 5K and more (?) before Christmas.
w/c 21st - finish the program wk 4 and wk 5
w/c 28th - finish wk 6 and start wk 7
w/c 5th - finish wk 7 and start wk 8
w/c 12th - finish week 8 and start wk 9
w/c 19th - finish wk 9 and TA DA! I am running 5K!
w/c 26th (aside from the hangovers) - more 5K
then just carry on running 3 times a week until the trek... and after!
Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts
Monday, 21 November 2011
Thursday, 3 November 2011
run run as fast as you can
I started a new training regime this week. (short attention span, perhaps?)
Feeling the pressure from all the well-wishers at the recent pub quiz, and my pals at work, who keep asking me "hows the training going?" which I love of them, except that my answer is always so rubbish - um yeah, it's going ok I think.
Especially as my butt is as big as it was when Rosie and I signed up for this thing - I need to show, and more importantly feel, some serious progress, if I am going to obtain the (mostly mental) strength to get up this hill.
So, anyhoo, I started this thing, on top of my gym visits and long walks with Vicki every Tuesday - NHS couch to 5K - http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/c25k/Pages/couch-to-5k.aspx
Its a series of 9 podcasts that you download to your MP3 player and play to yourself 3 times a week. The nice lady called Laura tells you how marvellous you are, and times you running/walking/warming up/down etc and gradually builds up to running for half an hour. The music is abominable, unsubtly optimistic and life-changing in nature and it's all a bit faintly brain-washy. But I'm not complaining.
So far I have done 2 sessions (Laura tells me I am doing really well - I'll have you know). I feel proud of myself.
Cousin Alice told me all about it, and raved about how great it is, but hasn't done more than week one, so we will have to see how it goes!
Chloe
Feeling the pressure from all the well-wishers at the recent pub quiz, and my pals at work, who keep asking me "hows the training going?" which I love of them, except that my answer is always so rubbish - um yeah, it's going ok I think.
Especially as my butt is as big as it was when Rosie and I signed up for this thing - I need to show, and more importantly feel, some serious progress, if I am going to obtain the (mostly mental) strength to get up this hill.
So, anyhoo, I started this thing, on top of my gym visits and long walks with Vicki every Tuesday - NHS couch to 5K - http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/c25k/Pages/couch-to-5k.aspx
Its a series of 9 podcasts that you download to your MP3 player and play to yourself 3 times a week. The nice lady called Laura tells you how marvellous you are, and times you running/walking/warming up/down etc and gradually builds up to running for half an hour. The music is abominable, unsubtly optimistic and life-changing in nature and it's all a bit faintly brain-washy. But I'm not complaining.
So far I have done 2 sessions (Laura tells me I am doing really well - I'll have you know). I feel proud of myself.
Cousin Alice told me all about it, and raved about how great it is, but hasn't done more than week one, so we will have to see how it goes!
Chloe
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