so i'm following this book....http://www.amazon.com/Nonrunners-Marathon-Guide-Women-Training/dp/1580052053/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1307119714&sr=1-1#_ ... technically.... mostly cuz of the charts. i love charts (and loathe them in equal measure,truth be told.) but she's got this really lovely week-by-week,day-by-day training schedule for the newly reformed couch potato. (another less-than-scintillating factoid..i am,in fact,not the aforementioned couch-dwelling root vegetable.well. not all the time. i work. i do yoga. i am scant weeks away from balancing on my hands in the middle my living room...any day now! i can feel it!!! but there are definitely some nice,languid gaps in between vigorous physical activity you might say...) ...
so... for the girl who is often prone to decide after months of inertia to,oh,i dunno decide..."hey! who's up for an 8-mile uphill jog?!?" Yay!!! which i will,in fact, enjoy immensely....and which will subsequenly send me sailing right back to that happy,ass-grooved spot on the sofa for a few more days (or weeks) of unplanned,err,restoration... ahhh... yes.
...and so... the chart.. for the last thing this lady wants when she's taking on a brand new endeavor is to have to painstakingly lay the groundwork for said endeavor. a harbinger i am not.. while i applaud the entrepenaurial impulse in others,i myself am disinclinced to jettison out my trusty pocket knife, whittle down an old-growth redwood with the will and callous of my own bare hands...and re-invent the friggin' wheel... when my beloved bookstore has a lovely assortment of them... of varying grains & colors for me to choose from... all shining and new... ready to roll on home to my humble abode.
so.
week 1~ 5days a week with rest days built in. yes.and yes. ...
Tuesday begins this maiden voyage,you might say with 35. yes, gentle,unimpressed reader... 35 Minutes of jogging. same on wednesday ,with a cross-training day on thursday (do a few sprinklings of downward facing dog throughout the day qualify???) ...with THE BIG GUNS,, err.. Runs... coming out to play like slobbering,menacing dogs on the weekend. we'll start you off with a whimpering schnauzer. a mere 45 minute saunter,if you please... pay at the window....
and so..my glittering journey into the great,blue beyond continues... slowly. ant-like. composted food morsel by morsel...the hive is built.
1 comment:
I like this plan. Start big, burn out fast. I'd be down for a 35 minute uphill jog. If I were to run eight miles tomorrow after a winter of near-torpor, I wouldn't run again all summer. I'm starting up again slowly. Slow works. Much love, by the way.
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