The Working-Up-To-Running Thread

[Cockney Rebel]

MK, Trixi, Scurvygirl and me are now all official half marathoners!

[rva]

Congratulations! 

[c-lando]

You guys are SO awesdome!!! Congrats!!!

Last week, I ran my first consecutive mile since I was on the junior high track team. I was amazed that I was able to keep going that long. I didn't really get out of breath. I guess all the Spazzing has really helped with that. However, it was painfully obvious (afterward) that I did not stretch properly before or after the run and I was in some tweaky pain for two days. I'm going to try to get back on the horse tomorrow.

[Kwyjibo]

Did you run it, or walk?  Not that walking would be any less impressive, I certainly did not walk 13.1 miles this weekend.

[MissKitty]

We walked it. CR and I averaged 17.5 minute miles and finished the race in 3 hours, 50 minutes - which I believe is about the time it takes Foolsgold to run the full marathon.

[Dan]

Verrrrry nice and congrats to all! Revel in your glory!

[Butter]

We walked it. CR and I averaged 17.5 minute miles and finished the race in 3 hours, 50 minutes - which I believe is about the time it takes Foolsgold to run the full marathon.

Not a bad pace at all.  It takes Andrea and I probably 15-16 minutes to hit a mile walking at our best pace, and there is no way we could keep that up for nearly 4 hours.  Well done all around.

[Cockney Rebel]

What was really fucking weird was that our pace for the second half - pre-Eden Hill's inclines and the suchlike - was FASTER than for the first half. Given that energy levels must surely flag as time goes by I was really taken aback by that.

That said, about half a mile from the finish I did feel like I was Popeye and had just been given a tin of spinach

[Ella Minnow Pea]

On Thanksgiving morning I did the Boulevard Bolt (a 5 mile race) in Nashville for a second year in a row. Mostly walked this year, but still managed to cut 8 minutes off my time! Even better - each mile split was faster than the previous one. Plus, I didn't limp around the rest of the weekend. Have another 5k on Saturday. I've been mentoring a walk group, so I won't be setting a PR, but love that a 5k distance doesn't intimidate me at all now.

[Jen]

Great job E!

I have been doing the Couch to 5K program since, well, forever. Either markus or I have been injured to the point where we needed to take time off. The good thing is that when I start back up, I can still run a mile without any effort (which is huge for me because I have never been athletic). This fall in the gym I focused on really heavy weightlifting but I really want to burn off a few non-muscle pounds I have slowly been racking up the past few years so I have changed my plan to MWF running and TTH lifting. I hope to keep working my way up to a 5K to start and then once I am proficient in that distance, start adding more. Markus and I signed up for the Flying Pig and while after walking the half last year, we had hoped to sign up for the half again but run it, we decided to run the 5K instead. He is off running this winter to heal his foot that is having a tough time healing so he won't be able to train and I doubt I could train to do a half at my slow pace either. So, maybe a half in 2013.

[Dan]

You don't need Markus to go for a walk!

:p

[Jen]

You don't need Markus to go for a walk!

:p

Exactly, which is why I am running MWF at the gym by myself. Hopefully we'll be able to take short walks this winter after the problem he has now goes away.