Week 3.0

OK, seriously, it time to get seriously serious. My first Training Group meeting was Saturday, a “Kick Off” breakfast and lecture. It really was quite informative. The biggest take away for me was to RUN SLOW!  If some guy in basketball shorts blows past you, let him go and you might want to slow down even more! You might still be running too fast! A 12-minute mile and a 6-minute mile are still just a mile. You aren’t going to burn more calories if you run faster, so slow it down! If you feel you are not working hard enough, add more slow miles. With that said, I plan to do all of my future treadmill runs NO FASTER than 5.0, or a 12-minute mile pace. It will be very hard for me to self-regulate that and ignore the impulse to ramp up speed.

My goal for week 3.0 is to run 3 miles for each of my daily runs. My daily runs are Mondays – Thursdays with Fridays and Sundays off, long runs with the Training Group are on Saturdays. The first actual Training Group run will be 5 miles. It will be my first “road run” of the season and I am hoping my pace will be somewhere between a 12 – 15-minute mile.

I’ve got a great play list and a pair of wireless headphones so am ready to run! I will post later tonight with tonight’s run report.