Jamie's Big 5K

It's snowing right now, yay snow! I haven't gotten a chance to see an updated weather forecast but hopefully it'll amount to something. I believe it is supposed to.

Tonight I had a good walk on the treadmill, which was great because lately I've been feeling a little more 'meh'. But before I took my walk I finaaallllyyyy… wrote out my 5K training schedule! Woo hoo!

Now that I have it down in pen and ink, and have it planted on top of the treadmill, I know what I need to do. On the website for GoSTL they had a suggested training schedule that lasted 9 weeks. I am going to need to ease into it a little more, so I modified it out to start next Monday, which will make it 13 weeks of training. Then tonight I've been reading up on some tips for your first 5K, which were helpful.

• Mentally break the race out into 4 mini-races, three 1-mile races, then a fourth (and easy) tenth of a mile.
• Do your first mile slow, pick up the pace for the second, then kick it in gear and try to pass a person in the last mile.
• When training, develop a brisk walk, then add in some jogging, then add in running as you can handle it.

I'm super excited, and hopefully that'll stay that way and I won't get discouraged. The next thing I've done tonight is research for backpacks for oxygen tanks. I have not needed oxygen while exercising her at home, yet, but I figure I will probably need it for this since it's 3.1 miles. I was happy to see a bunch of options, so looks like that shouldn't be a problem.

Furthermore, if I can get all set up with the pulmonary rehab my doctor wants me to do, that will really help me in training for this because the point of rehab is to build up your endurance. Pulmonary rehab would be three times a week, MWF, and those days coordinate perfectly with my training schedule and what I'm supposed to do on MWF.