Still training to go from couch potato to my first race (6.2K) at the end of June. I can now consistently run for 25 minutes at a very slow pace and do about 3-3.2K in that time span. I also ran/walked 5K yesterday and did that in 46 minutes. I want to finish that 6K race in under 45 minutes, so I still have some work to do, but I think that's doable.
That race, by the way, is one week before my wedding and I might be in a 5K the weekend after my wedding, too. That's going to be a completely relaxing month :D
You can totally do it! Also, congratulations on the wedding :-D Honeymoon racing is great fun, we both did it last year on ours and it was great! Good luck with everything!
Still haven't posted the report from the 1/2 from last month :-(
Short version: temve did amazing! And I was a terrific coach (if I do say so myself) and she got to the race trained and tapered and cut almost 10 minutes off her time! (yes, I'm taking partial credit for this, it helps to make up for my own race disappointment)
I lined up exactly where I was supposed to, near the back of the 1:50 to 2:00 corral. When I heard the women in front of me talking about hoping for a 2:15 race at best, I realized I was probably in trouble. But by then it was too late. I spent the first miserable mile and a half on a narrow, very congested trail alternately shuffling along getting more and more upset and sprinting like mad to get somewhere. Then the next 2 miles going about 15 seconds per mile faster than my intended pace to make up for it. By mile 9 I felt like utter crap and actually stopped at the water stop. Not just walked through it, but stopped outright and had a cup of tea (yes, tea. That's one thing the race folks do here that I love. Warm, very sweet tea at the water stops) So after I stopped for a cuppa, I still felt like crap, but I finished anyway and was more than 3 minutes off my PR and 4 off my hoped for time. So, not my best race which is probably why I didn't want to write the race report. I left the whole race out there in the first mile due to poor planning on my part (and the idiotic hope that German runners lie less than American ones about their times when self-seeding into corrals.)
After that training was going quite well until 2 weeks ago and I fell off my bike and have managed to injure my tailbone enough that training is either painful or not running. I don't want to be on the elliptical. Whine, whine, whine. I wanna go outside and run, whine, whine, whine. Ask again in a few weeks when I'm feeling better :-)
I'm not down with people placing themselves in corrals they have no business in >:[ - I always line up further back than I end up placing. Today I was all the way at the back, because at gun time, I was still in line for the loo, *g* (but there was lots of time with over 3000 runners).
I spent the first miserable mile and a half on a narrow, very congested trail alternately shuffling along getting more and more upset and sprinting like mad to get somewhere. Then the next 2 miles going about 15 seconds per mile faster than my intended pace to make up for it. :/
Not just walked through it, but stopped outright and had a cup of tea (yes, tea. That's one thing the race folks do here that I love. Warm, very sweet tea at the water stops) I'm sorry for the circumstances, but it sounds funny/actually kind of lovely that you stopped for a cup of tea (I get that it wasn't).
Ach, also sorry about the tailbone injury - that's one of the worst injuries I've experienced D:
I just got back from my first half-marathon ½ hour ago:
It was just about as hard as I'd imagined with so little training - the last 2K were especially brutal, lol - but I didn't walk except for the water stops, and I didn't run crying the last 5K like I'd feared :D
My time was sub-02:25:00, which I'm well pleased with!
I'm not even that sore - was this morning, not so terribly now. I still feel like giving my knees, etc. until the weekend to rest, though, *pets knees*.
There's a 5K coming up in...it's not on my calendar. Why is it not on my calendar? Lemme go check the other calendar. Which it is also not on. But it's the day of or the day after a square dance, so likeliest date is a month from now. And my mom and I are signed up. She refuses to attempt to run it, so I've been training to walk it (for values of 'training' that include 'walk an hour every weekday, not necessarily in one chunk'), and I'm confident I can walk the 5K. I'll worry about running one after I've successfully walked one. :)
My regular easy-to-moderate runs are up to 4 miles, woot! \o/ And my pace is still ridiculously slow, but it's improving. I think I'm going to sign up for a 5-mile race in June; that'll be my first race in about three years.
Yesterday I forgot to put on my HR monitor strap. I missed it.
Complete flakiness. And I got dressed at home, but I ran at the indoor track at the gym--the weather sucked--so I didn't realize the strap was missing till I was there. I think I kept my HR pretty close to target, but probably a few beats higher than it would have been had I been looking at the number.
And, yeah, hitting four miles is huge. I always get frustrated because progress takes so long, but it does happen.
I have caught the race bug. I'm going for a 10k in June, and another 5k (to measure my speed progress) in July, and a 10k in December. I am having trouble figuring out training right now, though, as we just moved to an apartment in a house, so I can no longer just go down to the treadmill. I need to figure out how to get "getting over to the gym at my husband's campus" into my routine... (Pollen season = AWFUL here, so I can't run outside in the spring.)
Also, I may have changed my mind about wanting a monitor thingy for running, as once the pollen goes down, I'll likely be running outside. I'd like something small, and I'd really like to be able to listen to my podcasts while I run outside as well, if there's some sort of tiny mp3 player/running monitor in the world. Suggestions?
And does anyone have any recommendations for running shorts? All my general athletic shorts (both mesh and cotton) ride up into my crotch uncomfortably while I run.
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That race, by the way, is one week before my wedding and I might be in a 5K the weekend after my wedding, too. That's going to be a completely relaxing month :D
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No honeymoon for me directly after the wedding, though. I am back to work on Tuesday after my Saturday wedding.
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Busy month - but maybe race jitters will stave off wedding jitters :)
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Heh, I am hoping that. At least with the race there won't be many pictures of me.
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Short version:
I lined up exactly where I was supposed to, near the back of the 1:50 to 2:00 corral. When I heard the women in front of me talking about hoping for a 2:15 race at best, I realized I was probably in trouble. But by then it was too late. I spent the first miserable mile and a half on a narrow, very congested trail alternately shuffling along getting more and more upset and sprinting like mad to get somewhere. Then the next 2 miles going about 15 seconds per mile faster than my intended pace to make up for it. By mile 9 I felt like utter crap and actually stopped at the water stop. Not just walked through it, but stopped outright and had a cup of tea (yes, tea. That's one thing the race folks do here that I love. Warm, very sweet tea at the water stops) So after I stopped for a cuppa, I still felt like crap, but I finished anyway and was more than 3 minutes off my PR and 4 off my hoped for time. So, not my best race which is probably why I didn't want to write the race report. I left the whole race out there in the first mile due to poor planning on my part (and the idiotic hope that German runners lie less than American ones about their times when self-seeding into corrals.)
After that training was going quite well until 2 weeks ago and I fell off my bike and have managed to injure my tailbone enough that training is either painful or not running. I don't want to be on the elliptical. Whine, whine, whine. I wanna go outside and run, whine, whine, whine. Ask again in a few weeks when I'm feeling better :-)
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:/
I'm sorry for the circumstances, but it sounds funny/actually kind of lovely that you stopped for a cup of tea (I get that it wasn't).
Ach, also sorry about the tailbone injury - that's one of the worst injuries I've experienced D:
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Bummer about falling off your bike. I hate being injured! Heal up fast!
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It was just about as hard as I'd imagined with so little training - the last 2K were especially brutal, lol - but I didn't walk except for the water stops, and I didn't run crying the last 5K like I'd feared :D
My time was sub-02:25:00, which I'm well pleased with!
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I'm not even that sore - was this morning, not so terribly now. I still feel like giving my knees, etc. until the weekend to rest, though, *pets knees*.
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Yesterday I forgot to put on my HR monitor strap. I missed it.
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Yesterday I was already well on my way to the park when I realized I had forgotten my music. Missed that.
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Yay for being up to 4 miles.
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And, yeah, hitting four miles is huge. I always get frustrated because progress takes so long, but it does happen.
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Anyway, I'm glad you had fun!
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Also, I may have changed my mind about wanting a monitor thingy for running, as once the pollen goes down, I'll likely be running outside. I'd like something small, and I'd really like to be able to listen to my podcasts while I run outside as well, if there's some sort of tiny mp3 player/running monitor in the world. Suggestions?
And does anyone have any recommendations for running shorts? All my general athletic shorts (both mesh and cotton) ride up into my crotch uncomfortably while I run.