Welcome Welcome Trevor and Wishes. Glad to see you both could make it and congrats on getting your daughter to do it with you wishes. YAY


Today is not a Couch to 5K day for me, but it is a regular cardio day, so I'll be doing treadmill depending on the weather for 60 minutes and won't worry about following the program. That for me is going to be MWF this week and maybe STuTh next week as long as it's also a 3 day week.

This is going to be tricky incorporating the Couch to 5k into my existing schedule because I do upper body one day, lower body next and then cardio.. So I'm thinking on days that it's couch to 5k and Cardio on the same day that I may have to do only the additional 30 minutes or so to finish up my 60. What do you all think?


I hope everyone found the time to do Week 1 day 1. Any thoughts or suggestions or complications so far?

That's the wrong reason to buy a pair of shoes... Everyone's foot is different and how they walk/run is slightly different -what might be the perfect shoe for one person - might be all wrong for another.

You should always go to a running store and get properly fitted for a pair of shoes -most better running stores have employees trained to check the wear pattern on your current shoes - watch how you walk/run - and are able to suggest the best possible shoe for your foot.. .

I agree and great suggestion. I will need a new running shoe in the coming months and hope to get a shoe that takes into consideration my degrees of pronation. Although I'm sure i'll have to put down some green for one it should be worth it if it'll last a while. (Better start saving now).

You honestly don't pay all that much more for shoes at a running store than you would at a box store - definitely more than you'd spend at payless but you get what you pay for... and a good running store has a return policy - that if it is indeed the wrong shoe - you can exchange them for a different pair.

Awesome! I'll have to check more into this. I did go to a specialized store once and was fitted, but I don't remember much about what the lady said etc. Perhaps I'll get the chance this weekend when I'm out of town.

Hey - count me in!

I just did session one last night.

5 min warm up
Alternated 1 min jog at 5.0 MPH with 1.5 min brisk walk at 4.0 MPH for 20 mins
5 min cool down

total distance = 2 miles in 30 minutes

I'm not fast - mainly because I'm an indoor runner, and my treadmill sucks! I'm sure over time, I will get faster though.

Also, I don't have the podcast - no iPod for me! I am just using the guidelines on the cool runnings website.

I'm just walking tonight - no running - and doing some exercise ball exercises (abs/butt/legs).

As far as the shoe topic, I agree with visiting a running store. I wear New Balance anti-pronation shoes to prevent shin splints. The store I went to helped me find the perfect shoes for my feet, and I love them. There was a remarkable difference between the two styles of anti-pronation shoes they had me try....so definitely see someone who knows what they're doing and what you're looking for.

I also agree with Maleficent. My New Balance shoes were about $110 - about the same as the worthless pair of Nikes I had bought before them in the mall.

I found it! I found the club!!



Of course right when I find it is when I have to go pick up my students from Science Lab... blah.

But rest assured, I WILL be back!

This out of my journal, but I figured I would share it here as well:

I have a big announcement to make!

I have decided to sign up for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure!

It is a 5K race about 45 minutes from where I live. Well actually, there are other things you can do, but I am going to enter the 5K!

It is on May 3, so I think that will give me enough time to get 100% ready to complete a 5K!

AHHH!

I can't believe this is actually happening!

It benefits breast cancer, so I can't think of a better 5K to run as my very first one!

I already told James that he will be required to come with me, take pictures, and be proud!

oh wow! thats super news! woot!

I love doing rides for charity things, it makes it more fun and enjoyable.

they're a good organization to raise money for - as a fairly high percentage of donations goes to actual research and not operating costs.

How much do you have to raise in order to run? (the 60mile walk money raising i did last summer was brutal)

good luck with it everyone.

I finished in December, and due to a bad month have gone back to wk 5 to train for my 5k in april.

Couch to 5k - C25K Running Program

Excellent. Dos runners por favor.

Hehehe. You're so funny. I did try them on first. At a running store. Where I was being fitted. They just happened to fit nicely. They did ask me for my previous shoe but the last time I ran consistently, I was 12. I also got a snazzy insert thing they said isn't really necessary (forgot to ask but I think it's because I have remarkably flat fleet and apparently don't pronate - which I did ask about) but I insisted on getting just to try out.

Not that what you're saying isn't right, of course, for the people reading. Though in my case it doesn't really matter - the chances of my injuring myself are pretty much 0. I have never even pulled a muscle in my life, and I've done some pretty ill-advised things, physically speaking.

Now that I've said that, of course, watch me somehow hurt myself today.




So I mapped out a route that takes me out of my apartment straight north and down along the river. Crosses some railroad tracks and hits two serious sets of lights (I think), but other than that runs along the path next to the river. Also has the advantage of being exactly 5k (3 miles) there and back.

I just got done doing some cardio....2.5 miles in 30 minutes! It was refreshing, and it puts me at 50 minutes/4 miles total for the week.

I feel like the slow kid in gym class...

WAIT! I always was the slow kid in gym class!

Anyway, my max run speed right now is 5.0 MPH. I don't know if it's me or my crappy treadmill. Oh well, I'll get faster with time. I hope....

This may be difficult for me, but I'm in. I haven't been a runner since Jr High School so I'm interested in seeing how this will effect my body. lol

A newly made friend of mine is a mountain bike racer, and she loves exercise. It will be nice to find a program that I can do while we're at the gym together.

I'm going to the gym tonight so I'll try the first day of week one. I'll post about it later.