This week's workout involves a brisk 5 minute walk, then alternating 60 seconds of jogging with 90 seconds of walking for the next 20 minutes, then cooling down with 5 more minutes of slower walking.
We began yesterday, and right out of the blocks I knew I was in trouble. Elizabeth is "vertically challenged" just like me, however, she can walk faster than a person with legs twice as long. I was already puffing by the time we neared the end of our 5 minute warm-up walk. Well, I was pleasantly surprised by how "easily" (relatively speaking) I made it through the first 60 minute jog. But lest I become overconfident, the second jogging segment was more challenging, and by the third time I was pretty sure that Elizabeth had misread the the stopwatch forcing us to run at least twice as long as we were supposed to ... After that, I think I stopped "jogging" and instead I just leaned forward and walked faster. Probably not the best form, but ya' gotta start somewhere, right?
So, I will try to keep you posted on my progress over the next few weeks. Hopefully there will be lots to report.
6 comments:
That sounds like me when I first started! You can do it... I did!
Good luck - please keep up posted on the progress.
Sounds like a good program and something I might like to try myself. Only problem is I don't have anyone to walk/jog with and I don't usually do well or rather continue to do things like this when I'm by myself. Look forward to hearing about your progress.
Good for you! I started awhile back, but quit when I lost my running partner. She started running at 5:30 AM (did you know there was such a thing?) and I was NOT about to add insult to injury by getting up at that hour. Anyway, WTG!
That's awesome Denyse...you will be running a 5K before you know it!!
So I move and ya'll decide to start running..boo. Good luck with it...I am sure you will be doing that half marathon that E and I wimped out of before you know it:)
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