Run on treadmill
5 minute warm up
22 minutes run, 1 minute walk and 22 minutes run (45 minutes)
5 minute cool down
55 minutes and the treadmill said I did 6k which we already established is wrong.
If I look back at Week 10: session 3 on March 5th I ran 7.64km according to Garmin, I'd like to think that I would have run about the same km today.
Todays run went alright, my shins were hurting the whole time and the last 10 minutes were really hard. Honestly I did really crapy with my eating this afternoon... I had a slice of cake and it was loaded with sugar. I know I really should know better, that certainly wasn't fuel for my run and I felt it the whole way... BLAH!!
As you can tell I didn't run Saturday and there was also no Couch-to-5K run on Friday with Girls since it was snowing. We did run on Sunday and it was an easy 3.75km jog for me.
I've been really stepping it up on my stretching with all this running, once I get home from my run I always do about 20minutes of Yoga/running stretches. I also started icing my shins at night, every night!! My shins always feel much better... I just hope that I don't have to deal with this too much longer. I just want to run pain free, is that too much to ask for?
This week there will be running EVERYDAY! This the MOST running I have ever done... I'm a little worried that I wont be able to keep it up.
Tuesday, Friday & Sunday Couch-to-5k with the girls.
Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday Week 11 of my running program... there will be no rest day until Thursday April 22nd.
Wish me luck!
Have you ever committed to running with friends and then realized that perhaps you've bitten off more then you can chew and it's affecting your training?
Monday, April 12, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Week 10: Session 2 redo
on treadmill
5 minute warm up
20 minute run, 1minutes walk and 20 minute run (41minutes)
5 minute cool down
5.5k (so the treadmill says) 51 minutes
I say it again ... that treadmill is wrong wrong wrong! I ran my butt off in those 40minutes so I don't get 5.5km... it had to be more.
Today's run was a great. I'm slowly getting my endurance back and had no issues running for 40 minutes. I felt great, not out of breath and just really felt like I could go forever.
NOW my legs had other plans... my shins started hurting right away, then my calf started.
I really had to try to ignore what my legs wanted to do, which was NOTHING... they wanted me to go sit on the couch! BUT I was able to put it out of my mind and kept going, I was not going to listen to my legs and finished strong.
After my run I stretched and then iced down my shins, something I have been doing for a couple of days now and I find that it's really helped with the pain. I tend to feel fine during the day, it's just during my run that I feel some shin pain, but it's much better.
My Couch-to-5k group didn't run Yesterday due to rain, we are NOT that hard core yet!! But we are getting together tomorrow for our second run, should be fun.
My next session will be on Saturday.
With running 6 times a week I would like to find time to get some Core workouts in and perhaps weights, I feel like my core could really use the help... BUT I don't know if I'm being realistic with that. In 4 months I go from not working out at all to running 6 times a week... I might be pushing it, so we will see what I can come up with.
I also signed up for my next race, Toronto Women's 5k on August 28th, really looking forward to beating my current PR of 34:17 (I can't believe I just said that). My girlfriends who are doing the Couch-to-5k and my sister will also be joining me on that race.
Should be a fun event!!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Week 10: Session 1 redo
So here I am back at Week 10 of the 13 week walk/run Program which I started in December.
13 weeks have come and gone and I've completed 10 weeks of the program and one failed attempt at week 11. Finally after a 4 week break from the program, due to my shin splints/calf pain and getting ready for the 5k, I'm back to redo week 10.
This means there is no time to fail, no more redo of weeks. I'm running a 10k in 4 weeks, the exact amount of weeks I will need to finish this walk/run program.
AND on top of that on my rest days I'm running a Couch-to-5k Running Plan with my 3 Girlfriends and my 64 year old mom, who feel inspired by my 5k race and now want to join in the fun that is running. I know, I know ... I think I've bitten of more then I can chew, we will have to see how it goes. The MOST I would be walk/running in the 5K running plan would be 30minutes and I think that I could totally manage that IF I really take care of my legs and stretch and ice and get proper rest.
Yesterday was our first day of the Couch-to-5k, the session lasted about 30minutes with cool down and warm up. Everyone did really well and I was so proud of my mom for keeping up with all the young chicks. GO MOM!!
This morning, even after cool down and stretching my shins were in pain (both of them). I was NOT happy!! I felt great during Saturday race, NO pain what-so-ever NADA, I felt great during yesterdays run and then this morning I woke up in pain.
So frustrating, but even in pain I decided I was going to give week 10: session 1 a run.
on treadmill
5 minute warm up
run 10minutes and walk 1minute (repeat 4 times/ 44minutes)
5 minute Cool down
54minutes, the treadmill said that I ran 5.5km BUT I think it lied! it is a LIAR!!
I think I ran further then that. FOR SURE!!
Hubby has been telling me for a while that it was off but I just didn't believe him, but after running the race on Saturday I absolutely feel like I've been running a lot more then what it has been telling me.
Todays run SUCKED!! My shins hurt, my legs hurt! I did NOT enjoy it at all.
I wanted to quit.
I wanted it to be over.
WHY am I still running when I already have a medal to prove that I can run?
WHY should I run a 10k, no one needs to run that far.
I hate days like these, it's all a mind game and so easy to just give into it and give up and were it a year ago I would have walked away from it.
BUT today was different I want to be here. I don't want to go back to sitting on the couch watching my life pass me by.
I can do this.
YES the pain sucks.
YES it's not fun all the time.
BUT in the end it's so worth it, I've never been more proud of myself and what I have accomplished in such a short time.
Tomorrow, running with the girls and Thursday session 2 of week 10.
13 weeks have come and gone and I've completed 10 weeks of the program and one failed attempt at week 11. Finally after a 4 week break from the program, due to my shin splints/calf pain and getting ready for the 5k, I'm back to redo week 10.
This means there is no time to fail, no more redo of weeks. I'm running a 10k in 4 weeks, the exact amount of weeks I will need to finish this walk/run program.
AND on top of that on my rest days I'm running a Couch-to-5k Running Plan with my 3 Girlfriends and my 64 year old mom, who feel inspired by my 5k race and now want to join in the fun that is running. I know, I know ... I think I've bitten of more then I can chew, we will have to see how it goes. The MOST I would be walk/running in the 5K running plan would be 30minutes and I think that I could totally manage that IF I really take care of my legs and stretch and ice and get proper rest.
Yesterday was our first day of the Couch-to-5k, the session lasted about 30minutes with cool down and warm up. Everyone did really well and I was so proud of my mom for keeping up with all the young chicks. GO MOM!!
This morning, even after cool down and stretching my shins were in pain (both of them). I was NOT happy!! I felt great during Saturday race, NO pain what-so-ever NADA, I felt great during yesterdays run and then this morning I woke up in pain.
So frustrating, but even in pain I decided I was going to give week 10: session 1 a run.
on treadmill
5 minute warm up
run 10minutes and walk 1minute (repeat 4 times/ 44minutes)
5 minute Cool down
54minutes, the treadmill said that I ran 5.5km BUT I think it lied! it is a LIAR!!
I think I ran further then that. FOR SURE!!
Hubby has been telling me for a while that it was off but I just didn't believe him, but after running the race on Saturday I absolutely feel like I've been running a lot more then what it has been telling me.
Todays run SUCKED!! My shins hurt, my legs hurt! I did NOT enjoy it at all.
I wanted to quit.
I wanted it to be over.
WHY am I still running when I already have a medal to prove that I can run?
WHY should I run a 10k, no one needs to run that far.
I hate days like these, it's all a mind game and so easy to just give into it and give up and were it a year ago I would have walked away from it.
BUT today was different I want to be here. I don't want to go back to sitting on the couch watching my life pass me by.
I can do this.
YES the pain sucks.
YES it's not fun all the time.
BUT in the end it's so worth it, I've never been more proud of myself and what I have accomplished in such a short time.
Tomorrow, running with the girls and Thursday session 2 of week 10.
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