Couch to 5K programs - best one to follow please (I googled it ) - I donāt want an App, I want something I can print off and follow. I swear it wasnāt this complicated when I last did it (yes that was 10+yrs ago!), since when was cross-training days added?!
Seeing as the spaniel is now suitably recovered from surgery and post-op complications, but having been restricted to 1x5min walk a day for the best part of six weeks, heās lost a lot of fitness, so in a moment of madness, I suggested I re-introduce him back to running (& teach him to run nicely on a lead) by turning him into my running buddy, before handing him back to OH for longer runs (they used to go and do 7+ miles on a Sunday morning for fun) - he will regain fitness much quicker than I will get to run 5k but Iām getting older and feel I should be doing something and Iāll be honest Sara Coxās effort last week has given me some hope that my old bones could still run (I was a sprinter in my younger days), Iāve never really enjoyed longer distance running, a 10k was the one and only longer-distance race Iāve ever entered and I think that scarred me for life
Usual caveats; thereās no such thing as running too slowly when building up.
Dogs are also allowed at all 3 nearby parkruns (1 dog per runner on a short, handheld lead). Thereās usually a few at each; could be good for you if you want to get into canicross.
I always hated it because the only times I ran, I was running as fast as I could or further than I should have without training (thanks, bleep testā¦)
If you could be convinced to follow an app, fitness22 did one and itās certainly nice to not have to think about anything and just listen to the voice.
Donāt be afraid to just shuffle along though. Youāll be amazed how quickly you improve even by forcing yourself to crawl along!
I may be tempted to do a parkrun, an old school friend is a serious parkrun tourist and she wants to come over to do the nearby one at the big hall in the new year.
Excepting the ones in (or, with one, literally just outside the city), the next nearest parkrun is a 40 minute drive away. Then again another 30-40 mins beyond that to the next nearest.
Itās a shame there arenāt more, and there are some nearby (ish) towns that should have one. One that comes to the forefront of my mind closed for Covid and never reopened, leaving a huge gap with no coverage.
I was just looking at my activities from earlier in the year, running and walking through the Andes sometimes at altitudes higher than is physically possible in Europe. A 5k seems like nothing by comparison, and is disappointing given how much fitness Iāve lost in the past couple of months.
Just had the results come through. They normally get around 250 - 300 finishers, today we had 757.
) - I donāt want an App, I want something I can print off and follow. I swear it wasnāt this complicated when I last did it (yes that was 10+yrs ago!), since when was cross-training days added?!
