Monday, July 9, 2012

Getting in Shape: C25K

I haven't done much exercise at all since my ill-fated attempt to run at lunchtime back in January. I recently heard about this training program called "C25K", or "Couch to 5K". It's a training program designed to get you from doing no physical activity whatsoever to running a 5K in nine weeks. It sounded interesting, and a few of my friends (Annie and Travis) had already heard of it or started it. There's also a subreddit for it, so I figured I had some support.

I had put off starting the program because I knew that if I put too much stuff on my plate, I could get burned out. I finally cast that burden off and did the run Sunday morning (using a nifty Android app called RunDouble). It felt good; I never felt overly extended, but I was definitely tired and sore at the end.

The best reward was using the garden hose on my head. Feeling that cold well water hit my hot head was such a rush! Highly recommended.

2 comments:

Derek said...

Good luck! People seem to like this program. If you get into it regularly, maybe catch me on DailyMile.

Unknown said...

Thanks! I definitely want to get in shape, so I'll do whatever works. What is DailyMile?

I think I'm going to do the 100 Pushups training program on my off days. INTENSE

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