Quick update ...
Having started the C25K program on 25 March 2014 and graduating from it with a local area 5Km fun run on 18 May 2014 I've moved on a bit ...
For the first month following the first 5km run I pretty much consolidated the work I'd done, worked on improving pace a bit, got used to the actual doing of the thing etc. Then I decided to work on my sessions up a notch or two, and ...
Wednesday 18 June: 6.1km
Friday 20 June: 8.5km
Then I decided to back off from longer distances and work on getting some more strength and stamina and pretty much focused on the 5km distance for a couple of weeks ~ integrated Cooper tests (distance covered in 12 minutes) and increased the quantity of hills (well ... slopes are what we have locally
) in general sessions.
Then following a conversation, things took an interesting turn and the fortnightly longer run would need to make a reappearance ...
Tuesday 08 July: 10.1km
Tuesday 22 July: 12.2km
Monday 04 August: 16.5km. This session should have been done on Tuesday 05 and it should have been a 14km run, but it felt 'right' to push myself on the centennial anniversary of our entry into World War One (also the 70[SUP]
th[/SUP] anniversary of the arrest of Anne Frank) ~ and, even more importantly, I felt both up for and capable, of it.
There's more than a small amount of trepidation before each of the lengthening long runs
[SUP]2[/SUP] :yikes: . To be reasonably happy to enter into next year's personal challenge I want / need to be reasonably comfortable running[SUP]
1[/SUP] half Marathon distances
.
To aid proper recuperation the session following a long run is a much easier and relaxed affair, and then the build up sessions begin again ...
Would I recommend the C25K program? Have you been reading? I can't be considered fast and it's definitely not pretty, neither of which are or were a priority, but I'm enjoying the challenge* of running[SUP]
1. [/SUP]
Could I have got to this point without following / using the program? Possibly, but probably not .
* Until (or unless) I'm beasting myself, running[SUP]
1[/SUP] still counts as Type II fun
So, from not a runner[SUP]
3[/SUP] at all to running[SUP]
1[/SUP] 16.5km (10 ish miles) in roughly four months!
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1[/SUP] Jogging!
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2[/SUP] Jogs!
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3[/SUP] Jogger!