Couch to 5k – Week 1 recap

It wasn’t very long ago when I wrote my first post about my Couch to 5k plans and my reasons for starting the program, etc. I just thought I’d do a quick recap of my first week and my feelings on it so far.

Let me first refresh your memory about what the first week involves. My wife and I are doing the program together, and we have to do 3 sessions per week. They start out with a 5minute warm up walk. We usually try to stretch out ahead of time and we do the walk at a pretty brisk pace, just going up the road from our house. It’s a very small road and isn’t used often so although we do occasionally encounter cars, it isn’t very often. After the 5 minute warm up walk, we start the rotation. We have to alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 secs of walking for a total of 20 minutes. By this time we’ve usually run/walked all of the way to the main road and come back nearly to the house again, and we finish off by walking the rest of the way home. I must say that the first day was a bit of a shock for me, as I hadn’t done any running for quite a while and had only been playing ping pong for exercise. Anyway, we had some scheduling problems because of recent rainstorms and we almost didn’t go on the last run. We finally made it happen right after a thunderstorm passed over and although we got a little wet and muddy, I felt much better having done it. So far it doesn’t seem like a chore once we got on the road, although inevitable desire to avoid the task does occur. We’ve gotten through it so far with help from each other and I feel good about starting the second week. I feel like my body is already adjusting and I’m ready to up the amount of running I do. One thing I must remember is to be careful about what I eat before a run. The last couple of times we’ve done this, I had eaten too much without enough time between the meal and the run and found the full stomach a bit trying, so I’ll be adjusting that as needed.

So as you can see, I’m still on the path to success. I prefer running on slightly cooler days so hopefully the weather will be in my favor this week. Wish me luck, and why not give this a try with me? If you start now you won’t have missed much at all!

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