5K Run 12/15/2008
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Yesterday I ran a 5K and mix in some weight training and ab work. Lately, I have been feeling like I need to include some other activities to become a better runner. Since it was raining yesterday, I ran a 5K in 31 minutes and 50 seconds. I know, that is not too good especially since I have been running for almost a year. At first, I was only interested in losing weight, but now I am becoming interested in getting faster and more efficient.
Since I want to keep the majority of my exercise to running I cut my distance back from 5 miles to 3.1 miles for yesterday. I did this for a few reasons: my first reason is, I just wanted to do something different. Secondly, I knew that I only had about an hour to complete my training and get home. Third, I wanted to complete a circuit of weights just to mix in a couple of leg, chest, and bicep exercises. Basically, I used light weight and did 1 set of each exercise for 15 to 30 reps. It felt good to do this after a short run. I will probably add this in at least once a week from here on.
My next quest is to add in a "speed" day each week. I have not been good at adding in this portion of my running days but I feel that adding a speed day will help me get closer to my goal of competing in and completing a marathon. If you have any suggestions on how to get started with a speed day please send them my way. There are a ton of them on the internet but it is hard to narrow them down to the best one.
Today is going to be all abs and jumping rope. This is not really what I wanted to do today but I have to make sure I get some type of exercise for the day.
That is it for today. Starting tomorrow or Thursday I am going to start putting up my notes from when I first started and a few stories of what got me motivated.
Yesterday I ran a 5K and mix in some weight training and ab work. Lately, I have been feeling like I need to include some other activities to become a better runner. Since it was raining yesterday, I ran a 5K in 31 minutes and 50 seconds. I know, that is not too good especially since I have been running for almost a year. At first, I was only interested in losing weight, but now I am becoming interested in getting faster and more efficient.
Since I want to keep the majority of my exercise to running I cut my distance back from 5 miles to 3.1 miles for yesterday. I did this for a few reasons: my first reason is, I just wanted to do something different. Secondly, I knew that I only had about an hour to complete my training and get home. Third, I wanted to complete a circuit of weights just to mix in a couple of leg, chest, and bicep exercises. Basically, I used light weight and did 1 set of each exercise for 15 to 30 reps. It felt good to do this after a short run. I will probably add this in at least once a week from here on.
My next quest is to add in a "speed" day each week. I have not been good at adding in this portion of my running days but I feel that adding a speed day will help me get closer to my goal of competing in and completing a marathon. If you have any suggestions on how to get started with a speed day please send them my way. There are a ton of them on the internet but it is hard to narrow them down to the best one.
Today is going to be all abs and jumping rope. This is not really what I wanted to do today but I have to make sure I get some type of exercise for the day.
That is it for today. Starting tomorrow or Thursday I am going to start putting up my notes from when I first started and a few stories of what got me motivated.
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