Race Against Racism

At the end of my last 5K, all the runners (and walkers) got a pamphlet for a 5K in June, to be hosted by YWCA. It will be their first annual race against racism and I look forward to participating. I'm not going to be unprepared like last time, so I looked online for training schedules and have been following one from Jeff Galloway.

Starting this week (past Monday), it's exactly 10 weeks till the race and I had to scale down the original schedule, which was for 15 weeks, down to my time frame. I've included a link HERE to my Google docs page where I've posted the schedule in an Excel document. You can leave comments there, save it, print it, and use it if you're looking for a beginning runner's 5K training schedule. Come back and let me know on your progress!

This morning I ran my first "long" Saturday run per the schedule (it had to be today because it was raining yesterday)...the thing I love about doing it this way is that it just eases you in, you don't feel overwhelmed by too much time commitment, and 15, 20, 30 minutes throughout the week is not very hard. Don't think about it, just do it!

I've started getting lazy and the thought of exercising just to see the pounds drop has become monotonous. Training for something, for a goal far off in a reasonable time frame gives me more motivation. Along the way I know I WILL lose weight, but I have to shift my focus in order not to lose the big picture. Just how your body gets used to and gets tired of the same routine over and over, your mind gets tired of the same kind of thinking too. Change it up, change your vision, and go forward without a glitch.