My First Walking 5K
Tina has a wonderful guest post lined up and waiting about her wonderful amazing whole wheat pizza dough. However, I’m going to let it wait one more day, because I did something today that I have never consciously done before.
I walked a 5K. Instead of doing an hour on the elliptical at the gym, I picked a treadmill, punched in 5K loop, and set off at the fastest walk I could muster until I was done.
I have a LONG way to go to running a 5K. I am well aware of this. I have seen plenty of people post sub-30 minutes times on running. I’ve seen people post times in the range of 45 minutes for walking. I knew this was nowhere near possible for me.
Going in, I was hoping to not go too far over an hour.
The 5K seems like such a long distance to me, a complete non-runner at the moment, but I realize it’s only 3.10 miles. I’m not up to running it yet, but I can definitely walk it now.
I’m not crippled. I pushed myself hard, but not so hard that I won’t be able to walk tomorrow. So, how did I do?
56:47.
I’ll do even better on Tuesday.
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Good job, Jer! Keep truckin’ along and I know you’ll do great!
Good job, Jeremy! I can’t wait to get back to walking 5K every day… It’s a really good way to start a day. At the moment I’m struggling to get round the block, but it will get better.
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Nice work! I’m thinking of doing this along with you…a walking 5K. I have been doing some treadmill action this weekend with a few jogging spurts when I can (no pressure for time or anything, just to push myself to get the heart rate up) but I usually hover around 2 miles. 3.1 would be a good goal for a different workout one day!
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That’s a great start Jeremy, way to go!!
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