The 10K I'm running is organised by Run Bristol who also organise the half marathon here and other running events during the year. Well, I assume, I've never done this before!
They do a monthly email newsletter and this month's email pinged into my inbox first thing today. The main topic was the training plans. Hurrah, I thought, how timely. I was freaking out at 1:30 this morning because I've not run for so long. Excellent, a training plan will help calm me down.
I opened up the page, and selected "Beginners". The first run is an "easy 20 mins". WTF?! Panic panic panic, all over again.
Very fortunately for me a very experienced colleague who runs was standing right by my desk. I told her I was freaking out a bit and she reassured me that she's never followed a plan and just trains as she sees fit and there is nothing wrong with run-walk-run on the day. Nothing at all. The whole point of the run is to finish and enjoy the journey of getting there, not to give myself a hard time for not meeting a somewhat arbitrary standard. Life gets in the way sometimes. I know that!
So, thank you to my lovely colleague for calming me down and tomorrow I'm going to restart 5K training and see how I get on with Day 1, Week 1 which is walking for two minutes, walking for one minute times ten.
It's probably going to be very boring, I do find 45 minutes very long, particularly when the music on the MP3s isn't terribly inspiring, but needs must. The better I do, the sooner I can run with my own tunes, eh?
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