Mangomagic's Couch-to-Awesomeness Running Plan

[mangomagic]

I've been doing Couch-to-5K running plan so I can do the Mothers' Day 4K run on 9th May.

15/03/2010 MON Week 4 Day 1

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
* Jog 3 minutes
* Walk90 seconds
* Jog 5 minutes
* Walk 2.5 minutes
* Jog 3 minutes
* Walk 90 seconds
* Jog 5 minutes
And then five minute walk to cool down.

It was hard, especially the last 5mins. Also, my 5 minute jogs are so slow that some of the people walking around the park are at the same speed maybe even faster. And now I'm red like a tomato, but it means that I ran a total of 16 minutes! Pretty good considering I could only jog for 1 minute just a few weeks ago.

Does anyone have advice about running stride?

Also, any pre/post meal advice?

[hakko]

Always fun to see others make progress and improve! Good luck on the 9th of May.

I don't have much advice apart from the general sleep well, eat well, enjoy yourself, do your stretching and increase training amount slowly to avoid injuries.

I think you'll do a great race!

[^toby^]

good work!

[Talyn]

hey I just noticed this - nice one! best of luck with your goal!

[hardcore iv]

Good luck, mangomagic.

I can't offer much advice as I am vehemently against most forms of running

[mangomagic]

hakko, I really should have taken your advice. I didn't get enough sleep last night and then had a junk-ish type lunch and just had the worst run ever following the same 5 min plan as above. I survived but it was torture and by the time i got back home i felt like i was going to faint. Also my right shoulder hurt for some reason.

Thanks Toby, Talyn and hardcore

[Rochellita]

Just dropping in to your log to say good luck and nice to see you posting! Are you feeling well on your gluten-free diet?

[mangomagic]

Thanks Flux! It was really weird I felt really sick for a long after I went gluten free, in fact I felt worse but then all of a sudden I felt better. I think exercise has helped.

[mangomagic]

Did repeat run, but it didn't go so well, had a small stitch for most of the jogging parts and ended up stopping about 25 seconds short on the last run. Also, my left shoulder is still hurting. This was the supposed to be the last run for the week before I move on to longer runs next week. I'm not sure if I should do one more repeat before moving on, or just continue on to week 5?

[Rochellita]

Thanks Flux! It was really weird I felt really sick for a long after I went gluten free, in fact I felt worse but then all of a sudden I felt better. I think exercise has helped.

That's good news. There's a huge psychological adjustment there too, especially because you are a foodie. I suppose it gives you an opportunity to diversify

[mangomagic]

Thanks Flux! It was really weird I felt really sick for a long after I went gluten free, in fact I felt worse but then all of a sudden I felt better. I think exercise has helped.

That's good news. There's a huge psychological adjustment there too, especially because you are a foodie. I suppose it gives you an opportunity to diversify

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Yeh, it's a good excuse to eat more quinoa, but I wish I knew why my health was so up and down.

I repeated week 4 run again today, and finished it. In fact I swear that I was even jogging faster. Don't really know what the difference was.

Next week going into 8 min intervals plus.

[mangomagic]

Finally started week 5, this is the first week of the plan where each running day is different ending with me running for 20 minutes straight.

Today, I did week 5 day 1:

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

* Jog 800m
(or 5 minutes)
* Walk 400m
(or 3 minutes)
* Jog 800m
(or 5 minutes)
* Walk 400m
(or 3 minutes)
* Jog 800m
(or 5 minutes)

I always just do it by minutes not metres since I don't have any way of measuring how far I jog. Today was fine.

[Julle]

Good job! You are doing nice and regular!

[Alistar]

Going great by the sounds Mm's!
If I try to run for even a couple of minutes I can't walk for about a week, so am no use to you at all!

Best of luck for your training over the next month or so

[mangomagic]

Today week 5 day 2:

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

* Jog 1.2km
(or 8 minutes)
* Walk 800m
(or 5 minutes)
* Jog 1.2km
(or 8 minutes)

Then 5 min walk cook down

I did it, but it killed me. I even struggled to do the 5 min walk cool down at the end and then felt kind of sick. Also, got a stitch about 2 minutes away from the last run, any advice about stiches?

I've started to see a traditional chinese medicine doctor and she said that she things that I should give jogging a rest until I'm better (have a cold and intestinal/digestive/ issues) but if I do that then I worried that I won't be ready for the 4km run in may.

The next run that I supposed to do in the plan is jogging for 20 minutes straight.

Alistar, I was the same a few weeks ago.

Thanks Julle!