Ultimate 5K Running Group - Week 3 (closed grp)

Hello

My goals for this week will be:

Workout 1: walk at 3.5 for 2 minutes run at 5 for 1 minute > 20 minutes total
Workout 2: walk at 3.5 for 2 minutes run at 5 for 1 minute > 20 minutes total
Workout 3: walk at 3.5 for 2 minutes run at 5 for 1 minute > 20 minutes total

A lot is going on this week, as you can probably tell by my delay in posting my goals and the fact that I have yet to workout this week. I started my job on campus this week and I'm getting everything set up. It is a lot more difficult than I though it would be to balance work, school, eating healthy, and working out. I hope that once everything settles into more of a regular schedule it will be a bit better. We shall see.

Hope everyone has a good day!

Tammi

Good morning,

My thighs are still sore, I guess I overdid it last weeks training. Anyways, my goals for the rest of the week is to try 3 workouts with high intensity interval training (HIIT).

Greg thanks for the link.!

Not a problem - good stuff! I am trying to work that in as well.

Also, according to my records on runkeeper.com, I ran a total of 62.9 miles for the month of January. Thank goodness that was not consecutively :laugh:

Light workout yesterday - had to spend time with my 14 year old son getting his fitness orientation in the weight/cardio room so that he could workout when I am in there.

Workout: 15 minutes of basketball, weights for 20 minutes, ran 1 mile at 8:11.

Greg, it's good that you're teaching your son the ropes! I wish my girls would get on board *sigh*

It's a battle! My oldest, a 14 year old, was highly athletic until Jr High. He played soccer, football, and even ran a 5K with me! Then XBOX came along and Jr High, and he has wanted to do nothing in relation to exercise. We dropped our 24 hr fitness membership (only my wife and I were members) and joined our local community Rec Center which is brand new. They have a full-size olympic pool, racquetball courts, indoor track, weight room, and two full basketball courts. We were able to join as a family, so now I am able to get him to go because he likes playing basketball and now getting the opportunity to workout on the weight and cardio equipment. Now if I could only influence his nutritional habits :ohwell:

My other two are highly active. My 7 year old daughter is in a dance company, and is ripped - I mean RIPPED! She has muscles everywhere, including a textbook six pack for abs. My middle son, 10 years old, does nothing but play outside. He has run a couple of 5Ks with me, and on his last one, I think he ran right at 29:00 or so. He runs a mile in under 8 minutes, so I am trying to encourage him to go out for cross country and track in Jr. High in another year or so. These two are very easy with nutrition, they love fruit and vegetables, and will eat just about anything we cook.

Good luck with your girls - just set an example, and keep on bugging them!!!

2/2 Workout: Ran 4.4 miles, 9:07/mile pace

How's everyone doing with their workouts this week? Don't give up - this is the time to keep going, don't let that New Year momentum fade!!!

2/2 workout done. I walked 4.25miles at slow pace with incline of 4.5. I could feel it.! I also need to do strength training last time I did the C25k I was incorporating with strength training session and I was more toned. I feel like everything is jiggling...LOl!

Good work out! The incline will really build your endurance. Definitely incorporate some strength training, if nothing other than to prevent any injuries. It is disappointing when all the hard work you put in is sidelined by an injury.

@Greg thanks for the encouragement.
@ Felicia, I'm also having hard time with my 10 yrs old son. I look at him and all I see is me. He doesn't like exercise, loves eating carbs. I got the Wii, Xbox a boxing bag all he wants is to play games. We are going to sign him up for baseball that is at least what he wants to do. He also has an asthma and uses it as an excuse. I guess I will just have to be a role model for him and hope that he will come to his sense.

Definitely be that role model!!! I have asthma as well, and still run quite a bit. I occasionally have to use my inhaler, but most of the time I am able to control it just by focusing on the intensity of the exercise. Just remember that as with everything else in life, exercising has to become a habit, and the only way to make something a habit is to repeat it until it becomes routine.

2/3 Workout 3 completed! Going to soak my feet!!! I don't know why but my feet hurts so bad. It feels like I'm getting blisters any advice will be appreciated. I got this high end soaks and fitted shoes too.

I didn't post yesterday - for some reason, I can't even get to the community section when I use my Kindle Fire (I know, this is really not a tablet, it is an e-reader - but it runs the MFP android app). Anyway, never made it to my laptop to post.

2/4 Workout:

1 mile treadmill run @ 9:13
1 mile rowing on rowing machine @ 8:00
40 minutes of weight/circuit training
1 mile on indoor track @ 9:38

Going to be hard to get the initial 12 miles in that I wanted, but I'll come close. I plan on running today, but I think I am at 7 miles, and I doubt I will run 5. I would guess I will get about 3 in.

2/5 Workout:

I got on the treadmill and pushed through to 5.25 miles! I hit my 12 miles for the week, and glad I was able to break that 5 mile mental barrier. I ran an average of 8:57/mile. Now time to record my exercise in MFP and grab some snacks for the Superbowl!!!

Keep exercising!!!

WTG!!! You are inspirational.:flowerforyou: !