Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Training for a 5k

Yesterday was the fist day of my women's running club. There were tons of women there, or at least a lot more than I expected. It went well though. We ran for 1 min and then walked for 2 min for a total of 20 min. This is supposed to build our leg muscles and endurance. We are supposed to try and do it four other times a week, so tonight when I get off work (if its not raining) I plan on going running. I am going to try to run 3 min walk 3 min for a total of 30 min and see how I do. I would really like to turn running into something I make a habit of all the time and I am hoping that training like this for the 5k will be the trick. I have tried running before and have done well for a few weeks but then skipped a day which led to skipping weeks at a time. Ha go figure! So I will try to blog about my lovely running experience and maybe that will keep me from getting burnt out. Does anyone have any tips what to do to help so I don't get burnt out and I can turn this into a daily habit??

I usually go to lunch with one or some of the girls I work with. We have been trying to be healthy and bring our lunch ( I bring a lean cuisine pizza). Well today one of the girls suggested Pei Wei for lunch. (Its an Asian Diner for those of you who have never heard of it, I had never heard of it until today.) But we went an hour earlier than I normally go to lunch, so now my afternoon is now all thrown of because I feel like it should be later than it should. But the food was pretty good at Pei Wei. I am EXTREMELY picky about food. For example I don't like eggs, oranges, or lettuce to name a few things I will not eat. I am trying to get better about my pickyness, so today I tried crab won tons. I didn't like crab the last time I tried it but these were pretty good. You couldn't really even taste the crab, so that was good!

Megan

1 comment:

  1. I am doing the couch to 4 miler with inbalance midtown. I love it! W run at 6am MW, 6pm T,TH and 8am sat. We have coaches that run with us and give us help and suggestions when we are hurting. We will end with the cooper young 4 mile race on sept. 18

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