I have come up with the brilliant idea to try and become a runner. Yes. Me. A runner. Why have I thought to do this? Quite simply, I'm fat and tired of being so. My mind deduces that running is probably one of the quickest ways to get to where I am not fat anymore (along with diet changes, of course), and so, I googled. I searched. I found the 8 week Runner's World guide for non-runners who want to become runners. I went out and bought the Nike+ thingamajigger that has the sensor in the shoe and syncs with your ipod. Hey, if you're going to do it, you might as well get all the fun gadgets to make it worth your while, right! I shamelessly using running and I don't care. It's gonna work. It has to work.
How's it going so far? Well, just fine, thank you for asking. I am ending my first week, and all told, I am still alive. I call that a success!! Here's the theory behind this program....what? Don't you want to know? Of course you do. So sit back, open up those ears, well I guess in this case it would be your peepers, and let me spin you a tale of excitement and adventure.
The first week starts off easy peezy. 1 minute jog/run, 2 minute walk, repeat 10x's. Second week, reverse it, repeat 10x's. Third week it is bumped up to 5 min jog/run, 1 min walk . . . are you seeing the pattern. Oh, alright, I guess this isn't that exciting a tale. I tried.
No, I didn't, but I wanted to . . . no, that's not true either -- ugh, I'm a mess.
My goal, small though it may seem right now, is to run a 10min mile (all the way through, no stopping lazy ass!) ((motivational speech from me to me)) and get this...I actually run "faster" than I thought. Yes, I do. How do I know this? Well, the other day I asked Mark to go with me and he brought along his handy dandy Garmin watch and it calculated our pace...SUPER cool, people!
Have you ever noticed that when you run outside it feels like you run super friggin slow! Well, I have. So it was very exciting to see that I am not running as slow as I thought -- THERE, that is the exciting part of the tale! Ha, I knew something would get exciting!!
Oh! Was it only exciting to me? Aw, hell.....
Anyhoo...so yea, apparently on our jog/run portion we averaged a 9'45 pace --- which, if I can just keep it up for 9 more friggin' minutes, will have me beating my goal of a 10 min mile. The thought, right now, of running for 10 minutes straight has my heart rate accelerating, and all I'm doing it sitting at my table typing up this blog about my running program because I think everyone wants to know EVERYTHING about my life.
Don't burst my bubble.
To sum up. At the end of the 8wks I should, in theory, be running the whole 30 minutes....so that is where I am at people. I will keep you apprised of my progress, never fear. You will be in the know!!
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