Do the One Hour Runner (OHR) program

finish c25k

Had a nice run this morning. I intended to do 30min, but ended up doing 39min, about 5K. No giving up thoughts, no stings, it really was a good run. Ran the new route, so not sure about times, but that doesn’t matter. First time in a while with music, so that probably influenced my run too.

I ran again this morning, as planned, and earlier than last time. The run started off as a bit of a struggle, but after a while it went okay, and I managed to finish the 30 minutes, running 31,5 minutes total, about 4K. I ran my old route again, and my times were:
1km 6,5 min
2km 8,5 min (total 15)
3km 8,0 min (total 23)
4km 8,0 min (total 31)

So that’s 7,7 km/hour, not too bad. More importantly: another 30min run done. :)

Yesterday I felt good enough for a proper restart of this goal, and that feeling was spot on. Using the new route I did last time, I ran 31,5 minutes. I think I ran about 4K, but I’m not yet sure, because I think I mis-measured something. But in the OHR it’s the duration that counts, and I definitely got that.

It was a good run, I really like the new route, and it’s easier to extend this one, compared to my regular route.

The plan is to run every other day again, so tomorrow I’ll do this again. A bit earlier hopefully, I keep ending up running around noon, and that’s not such a great idea in this weather…

After the official run in April, I hardly did any more running to my regret… I had a few runs, but not a lot, and for the past few months I don’t think I did any at all. Today I went running again. I tried out a new route, and ran 11+11+2, with walking breaks in between. The 2 minutes at the end should have been a lot more, but I was definitely out of shape. That’s okay, at least I went out again. It was a nice run, a bit hot (wrong time of day), but the new route had several shady bits that were nice.

I completed the C25K program and want a new goal.
This one sounds good, within my capabilities and with hard work it should be achieveable.

Would like to run a 10k close to 1 hour. Have 3 weeks to go and only running 5k’s at the moment, but in 30 minutes. so, i think i can do this. love challenges, but hate not finishing. hoping the body holds up as the spirit is willing.

Woohoo! I was hoping to run the 6,6 km within 50min and my time was … 49min58sec. No kidding. And I didn’t even check my time during the last kilometer :D I did have a bit of trouble at about 4,5km and had to walk for 200/300 meter, then I resumed running. Why the trouble? I started out too fast of course. It’s hard to control your speed when you’re running in the middle of thousands of other people… When after about 400 meters I got a bit of room in front of me, I was just trigger happy I guess, and ran way too fast for the first 2 kilometers (6,15 both K’s). But after that I slowed down a bit and for the last few kilometers my speed was pretty much a steady 8 km/hour. Lots of cheering people too, which was actually more intimidating then encouraging, especially when I had to walk for a bit, I was afraid they would boo me (other walkers had been booed earlier on…), but fortunately they didn’t, and I didn’t walk for long anyway.

All in all a successful run, although it was a bit above my level, because the furthest I had run so far was 6,1km, and not very often at that. I think it’s best if I get back to the official OHR program for a while, and I’ll pick out a nice 5K somewhere in the neighbourhood for my next run, mostly because I like a date to work towards.

I did an evening run a few days ago, in preparation for the coming run. I had drunk wayyyy too little during the day and I had eaten not that long before my run, so no surprise: it was really hard. I didn’t finish the 6K run that I had planned, instead I ran 3,8 K, then walked until the 5K mark, and ran the last 1 K. I still think I’ll be able to make it, but the plan now is to eat a warm lunch and just have a sandwich in the evening before the run. And drink lots of water all day, and go to bed early the night before. That should do it…

I’m pretty sure I can run for an hour without walking sooo… I’m not going to do the program anymore.