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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
BeoPuppy:
Running with tight shoulder muscles? I get told to relax my shoulders all the time and it appears that I tense them unconsciously.
Barmymoo:
I thought about that, but I think I hold my arms fairly loose (the podcast guy keeps reminding me to) and doing the shoulder exercises I do for the soreness in my neck and back doesn't help. It's faded now, although it's still there. I'll keep an eye on it.
Redball:
I was worried about the difficulty of week 3, so I went out and did it this morning. Not that bad, although I got a little into the first jog, dropped the iPhone and restarted the whole thing. Sunny, 60F, nice breeze.
Against all the forces that can persuade me not to run on a given day is the possibility that when I'm all ready to run, it'll be pouring cats and dogs, or the roads will have iced up, or I'll be really sick. But I give into the negative forces more than the positive ones, I think.
A problem, and a solution: I'm running with a clocked-based app, and I suspect I"m running below a pace that will yield 5k in whatever the allotted time is. Next run I'll put a GPS in my sleeve. In the old days, I was comfortable with 9 and 10 minute miles, my wife with 10-11 minutes. I suspect mine's more like 12-14.
Barmymoo:
Personally I'm not all that bothered about hitting 5k by the end of the 9 weeks. I'm rather hoping that by that point, I'll actively enjoy running and just keep going out and running for fun. If we do decide we're all going to enter a race, then I'd start training a bit more seriously for distance, but for now I just want to get fitter and lose some weight. It's working so far :)
Redball:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 03 Jun 2012, 07:10 ---Personally I'm not all that bothered about hitting 5k by the end of the 9 weeks. I'm rather hoping that by that point, I'll actively enjoy running and just keep going out and running for fun. If we do decide we're all going to enter a race, then I'd start training a bit more seriously for distance, but for now I just want to get fitter and lose some weight. It's working so far :)
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I agree, and I seem to be losing some weight too. Funny to think that we'd all enter local 5K races.
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