As mentioned last week, two of my work colleagues, Lois and Chanell, are currently doing the couch to 5k running programme and they’re finally up to the end of the eight week plan, meaning they should be able to run 5k non-stop. They are going to do the Heaton Parkrun this Saturday and asked me if I would take them out on a 5k route at lunch so that they could see whether they could run that far in one go.
I took them out on the route which goes down to Ancoats and over to and around the Etihad Stadium before coming back the same way (or, as I like to call it, ‘Rachel’s Route’).
They were fantastic! So much so, that when we reached 5k (or 3.1 miles by my watch – I’m old school), they decided to carry on a little bit down to the railway bridge. They even got a spurt on in something of a sprint finish stylee!
They were both, understandably, over the moon as they never thought eight weeks ago, when running for 60 seconds was tough, that they would be able to run for 38 minutes non-stop.
Just shows that the ‘C25K’ programme really works. I wish that I had done something structured like that when I first started out as I just went out and ran and went too fast and too far too soon, so it took me a long time to be able to run 5k all in one go. They have progressed much faster than I did.
I’m actually starting to worry a little! Better up my speed training!
Total distance – 3.25 miles
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