Only three weeks left until the 5K race. Last week training was tojog for 4min and walk for 1 min repeated 7 times. During my Wednesday morning run I decided to run out the the half way mark to get an idea of how long it would take me to do the whole race. On the way back I could see that all I needed to do was run one more interval and I'd have run the full 5K. So I did it AND I didn't feel like I was going to die. I wasn't any faster than the first time I walk/jogged a 5K, but I wasn't struggling to finish either. It wasn't as hard as the first time, not by a long shot. So on my Friday morning jog I decided to just see how far I could jog with out stopping. I actually wished I had mapped out how far a full mile was, I kinda just guessed and ran out to that point(I was off by 0.1), I ran for a full 10minutes. I'm sure I could have gone longer, but I didn't want to push myself too hard, I was experiencing pain in my calf muscles and I wanted to be able to finish the days training and make it home. I think some time this week I'll just run a full mile just to see.
Today was a great day. I easily finished the days training, which is still the same as last week. I feel great. Pain wasn't too bad in my calves today. I'm always grateful for that. My knees are kinda achy, especially when I walk down stairs. So I'll have to be more diligent in the strength training to try to eliminate that pain. But all in all I am happy with how things are going.
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