Sunday, November 05, 2006

Running 101

Today was the first day of my running workout. Velvet pointed me to a 10 week beginner workout that I'm going to try:

Week Run Walk Repeat Total Time
1 1 min 2 min 7x 21 min
2 1 min 1 min 10x 20 min
3 2 min 1 min 7x 21 min
4 3 min 1 min 5x 20 min
5 4 min 1 min 4x 20 min
6 6 min 1 min 3x 21 min
7 9 min 1 min 2x 20 min
8 12 min 1 min Then run 7 min 20 min
9 15 min 1 min Then run 4 min 20 min
10 20 min
Leap for joy

20 min

Today was rather easy, but I can tell that I'm really out of shape when it comes to endurance. My goal here isn't to run marathons, I'm really just trying to become more fit. I don't think I've ever run more than 15 mins at a time, here goes nothing...