That is the Run for Your Lives 5K. It’s your average everyday 5K, but you get chased by zombies.
Those of you that have known me for more than 4 minutes know that I’ve never run a 5k in my life. I’ve only run 1 straight mile twice, one in high school and one in 2005 when we first joined the Y. But I now, after years of ignoring my wife’s pleas, I finally have a goal and the motivation to reach that goal. I will do this. I will I will I will. Mostly just because I want to get made up like the undead, but also because Jo said something about bonding with Emmy and Tracy and Liz, health and something about growing old together… I wasn’t really listening.
That means I have 103 days to get from vomiting up my intestines after running 1 block up to running 3.1 miles without dying. I’m taking steps to meet this goal. I went to the fancy-pants running store and talked to the fancy-pants running shoe guy and bought fancy-pants running shoes. The nice man at Ken Comb’s had me try on a jillion pairs of shoes, stared at my feet while I walked, talked about pronation and supination and all that crap, then sold me the shoes pictured above. I also bought the “get running” app (http://splendid-things.co.uk/getrunning/) to help me along the Couch to 5K program (http://www.c25k.com) and I plan on letting you fine people know how I’m doing every step of the way whether you want me to or not.
All that being said, here is today’s entry:
Week 1 Day 1 (this program is 10 weeks, 3 days a week)
30 minutes alternating 1 minute running then 1 ½ minutes walking
8 minutes total running (6 mph) this will go up
22 minutes total walking (3.5 mph) this will go down
1.95 miles distance… this will go up
376 calories… this will go down
max heart rate 185bpm (this is just a guess, my treadmill doesn’t tell me my max heart rate, this is just the highest number that I noticed ) I have no idea what this will do. Isn't it supposed to kinda stay up?
