No, I'm not going any where extravagant. I might not go anywhere at all. But I am very excited at the prospect of doing NOTHING. I rather like the idea of sitting in my appartment watching TV or playing Poker. Actually, I do have some plans.
One of my major plans is that I want to get back into running semi-seriously. I used to be able to run 10k three times a week. Those days have disappeared and I have been thinking about starting that up again. So last weekend, I went to buy myself a new pair of runnning shoes, running shorts and I also revamped my swimming gear. I bought new racing googles, and training paddles. On my way out I ran into my good friend Ryan, no pun intended. He was also on his way to buying new running shoes. Talk about great minds thinking alike! Well, after each purchasing breand new running gear we made plans to go running after diner that day.
So around 5:30pm on Saturday, we pointed our shoes towards Mount Royal and began our first of , hopefully, many runs up the mountain. So including that day, we ahve gone twice, so we have stuck it through the worse part, which in my opinion, is the first couple of runs since you always feel a bit sore in the begining. I am posting our running schedule here incase you are wondering what our training is like:
10 week running program.
Goal : To run 30 minutes non stop.
Follow the program at your own pace. If you do not feel ready to go to the next stage, repeat the last week, as many times as necessary.
| Week | Run | Walk | Reps |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 |
| 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | 9 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 9 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | 13 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 14 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 30 | - | - |
So as you can guess from the above table, each week increases the amount of time spent running. So for week 1, you run 2 minutes, then walk 4 minutes and you do this 6 times. Sounds easy enough... But if you are coming from a sedentary lifestyle, you will find this hard to follow. Ryan and I found this challenging the first time out, but the second time we thought it was pretty easy and added some jogging between the runs to make it a bit more of a callenge and to keep our heart rates up.
I want to acknowledge this website where I found this routine. Sorry folks, you'll have to be able to read French to understand it!
