Last week a friend began her 10K training and mentioned using a phone app. I looked into them and found a free 10K training app that starts from the very beginning, as if you weren't able to already run a 5K distance. The first week begins with a five minute warm up walk and ends with a five minute cool down walk with around ten reps of 60 second runs and 90 second walk intervals in between. It is a 14 week program (42 days), and I am able to incorporate my own music into the program. Not bad for a free app. The program fits in nicely for speed work training as well.
I plugged in the treadmill and turned on the app and had officially begun my 10K training! Whoo-Hoo!! I can do these short intervals way faster! Easy peasy!! I will nail these tiny little intervals! Wait? What? You want me to do that again? And Again? More?! Hold on a sec, why am I so drained? Come on now, this should be cake!
Well, it wasn't cake. It is not a good idea to start off too fast or you won't have anything left for the rest of the training. I reduced the pace as I went, back to my average running pace and decided, I would work on building speed a little more gradually than I first started out. The original pace I selected was most certainly doable for me, but not repeatedly. Not yet, but it will be! And it won't take long! I finished Day 1 of my 10K training yesterday. It was a little tougher than my cocky self thought it was going to be, but I got it done.
As the day went on and I started thinking about my shorter long term goals, I started getting an itch to run a full marathon. I wanted to skip right over the half marathon thing and go for the real deal! But, I had a plan, I was going to do a full marathon in 2016.
However, this idea kept popping into my head throughout the day until finally I couldn't ignore it any longer. I made up my mind I would go right from 10K training into half and then full marathon training and would plan to do my first full marathon in 2015.
Once I committed to the decision, I became so excited about the idea, I had to proclaim it on Facebook, you know, because that's what we do ;) It was wonderful to put into words and make it real and I am blessed to have so many supportive people in my life.
So, here begins my long journey from 10K to marathon. I hope you'll join me with your adventures in running and share your challenges, goals and successes!
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| Let the training begin!! |
I plugged in the treadmill and turned on the app and had officially begun my 10K training! Whoo-Hoo!! I can do these short intervals way faster! Easy peasy!! I will nail these tiny little intervals! Wait? What? You want me to do that again? And Again? More?! Hold on a sec, why am I so drained? Come on now, this should be cake!
Well, it wasn't cake. It is not a good idea to start off too fast or you won't have anything left for the rest of the training. I reduced the pace as I went, back to my average running pace and decided, I would work on building speed a little more gradually than I first started out. The original pace I selected was most certainly doable for me, but not repeatedly. Not yet, but it will be! And it won't take long! I finished Day 1 of my 10K training yesterday. It was a little tougher than my cocky self thought it was going to be, but I got it done.
As the day went on and I started thinking about my shorter long term goals, I started getting an itch to run a full marathon. I wanted to skip right over the half marathon thing and go for the real deal! But, I had a plan, I was going to do a full marathon in 2016.
However, this idea kept popping into my head throughout the day until finally I couldn't ignore it any longer. I made up my mind I would go right from 10K training into half and then full marathon training and would plan to do my first full marathon in 2015.
Once I committed to the decision, I became so excited about the idea, I had to proclaim it on Facebook, you know, because that's what we do ;) It was wonderful to put into words and make it real and I am blessed to have so many supportive people in my life.
So, here begins my long journey from 10K to marathon. I hope you'll join me with your adventures in running and share your challenges, goals and successes!
Here's a little something to motivate you (and me!)
I love watching the Kona Ironman running and participant stories. Enjoy.
HAPPY RUNNING TO YOU ALL!!!
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