Run 1: 4 Miles, Total Time 1:21:42, Total Run time: 1:09:21, Average pace: 17:18 min
My First run this week was interrupted quite a few times because of my children. They always need something. I was also in extreme pain for the first two miles of this run. I tried switching shoes and almost had to add KT tape in addition to my compression socks because I could hardly walk. I tried to follow my Chi Running rules and use my core to support my run and found it easy to do at a 10 min pace but anything slower I felt like I was trying to stop thru my Treadmill. About the 2.5 mile point my pain faded and I slowly finished my run.
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Icing my shin splints |
Run 2: 4 Miles, Total Time: 1:09:25, Total Run Time 1:09:25, Average Pace: 17:20
This run felt a bit easier and, not near as much pain. I did not stick to the C25K running because I didn't want to hurt again. So I still did running intervals throughout but kept the pain in check. This run was 4 seconds slower but it wasn't interrupted and I ended up with about the same pace but felt much better afterwards. And I had my longest running, with out stoping in a long time, with a whole 10 Mins of nonstop running around mile 3!!!
Run 3: 6 Miles, Total Time: 1:42:22, Total Run Time 1:42:22, Average pace 17:02
6 miles on my treadmill felt so daunting. We had company and it was getting late, cold and wet so I wasn't about to go run around my neighborhood. And plus using the footpath apt to try to find 6 miles from my house and that made 6 miles seem TOO far. LOL! So how does one prepare for 6 miles on a treadmill? Here is what mine looked like...
I felt so silly having to have two water bottles, one w/ rehydrate and one with water, and shot blocks on my treadmill, but I knew anything higher than 4 miles I needed better hydration and to replenish my energy to keep me going. For those of you that don't know what shot blocks or gu is, let me elaborate. They are concentrated items that quickly help replenish your body with the electrolytes, sugars and carbs you are using up. This helps keep you going and keeps you from hitting the "wall". I can't stand Gu but I can stomach shot blocks quite easily. Doing the math and realizing how long this was going to take me. I grabbed my iPad and downloaded a movie and thought, crap it is going to take me this entire movie and maybe a little bit longer. Sure enough movie came to an end and I was still going. I noticed I was dripping with sweat, it has been a while since I felt like that. So I felt good knowing I was pushing myself. I dealt with some pain this time around. Realizing that it goes away around 2.5 miles, I am able to focus on that fact.
Reflecting on the fact that a year ago i was just about to start my C25K training in hopes to run a better Warrior Dash and signed up for only 5K's that were fun or that rewarded me with some race bling. How did I get here? I ran a total of 14 miles this week.......at home.....on a treadmill....It is mind boggling to me that a 5K doesn't seem that far anymore. I know that I am not where I could be at this point of my health & fitness journey but I am still not where I was a year ago. When I started the C25K program last year my running speed was 3.6 mph and the 60 sec intervals of that were killer and I wasn't even completing a mile in the 25 mins the work out took me. This week my interval speed was 6 mph and even with my walking my average speed was 17 min miles. I still have a long way to go but I've got 7 weeks to get my average speed to 15 min miles)my goal for the Tinkerbell) Good thing to accomplish this I mainly building muscles, strength and endurance. I don't physically have to run faster just for longer amounts of time. This week brings two more 4 mile runs and a 7 mile run this weekend.