5K Training

This last Monday, Lauren and I started training for the Richardson 5k on September 16th (my B-Day... I'd better win). It's the first time since the weeks immediately following the half that will have run any significant distance. The training schedule we're basing our runs on is from Hal Higdon whom I highly recommend checking out.

We've had to modify the schedule a bit because we're now EXTREME people. We've really taken to in-door rock climbing at Canyons of Frisco and go twice a month on Saturday nights to climb our brains out. This also means we're strength training to build forearm muscles and upper body strength, and even though I didn't mention leg strengthening in there, it still makes the runs a whole lot harder.

To add to that, somewhere in our crazy heads, we've decided that we need to become expert swimmers, so on non-climbing Saturdays we swim for almost an hour in the afternoons at the Y. On climbing weekends, we do a more liesurly swim for about 20-30 minutes at mid-day and go climbing in the evening. Our first long run after a climb will be tomorrow. I'm curious to see if we survive.

Oh, and did I mention we own a kayak now? Yes, we do.