Podcast Album: Learning To Walk Before You Can Run
Track 15 - Learning To Run Stage 12 Brought To You By: MyWeightLossDream.co.uk
Welcome to the fifteenth track in our learning to walk before you can run series of podcasts and thanks for downloading me. Well I don’t mean me, I mean the podcast but I am sure you know what I mean! I hope you don’t mind but we are going to jump straight in with this podcast and to get you moving. Chapter 1 – Introduction To Stage 12 Can you believe that you’re listening to stage 12 and I have been walking and running through 12 stages now. I still haven’t decided how many stages there are going to be altogether, but I am enjoying a slow progression and it depends on how good my stamina is for how many there will be! Stage 12 Start with a 15 minute jog, followed by a 5 minute walk, then another 15 minute jog, followed by another 5 minute walk until you have done a complete distance of 5000m. Chapter 2 – Stage 12 Running Diary You’re probably thinking OMG I can’t possibly do another 3 minutes of jogging without stopping. This is like evil. You’re trying to torture me Well in fact another three minutes is easier than you think and you’d be surprised by how much you can push your body.
I remember at my local gym glancing over at the much slimmer person on the treadmill next to me. She could do 2.5km without stopping and I was well impressed. Well given her distance this is what you’re doing now! Fourteenth run = 25th August 2015 = 5300m = 39 minutes Now I want to take on stage 12, though this is going to be hard work so I am going to do it over a few different attempts because I know I just can’t progress to the next level until I can really do this one. Attempt 1 – 25th August – 39 minutes My daughter is nine months old today. I finally feel like I have got my energy levels back and feel the fittest I ever been in my life. But the thought of 15 minute intervals with a lot of uphills is still a lot for my body to take. The plan for this round is a 15 minute jog, a 5 minute walk and then repeating until I have done a distance of 5km. I don’t quite achieve it but this is what I do:
15 minute jog 5 minute walk 15 minute jog 4 minute walk
Even though that looks good I must confess that I had two pauses up steep hills for my second 15 minute session. I need to get this down to zero stops before I can go up a round! Attempt 2 – 3rd September – 41 minutes = 5250m I am back with my second attempt at stage 12. I hope this time I improve on last time. I am technically cheating though, as I am doing this down the local park and not in the valleys. This is just because we happen to be out, not just because I can’t do it. As I know I could if I really wanted to. I end up doing:
15 minute jog 5 minute walk 15 minute jog 5 minute walk 1 minute run
The 1 minute run on the end is just because the walking was a minute off and because I like to follow rules I finished on a very short jog. It wasn’t too tiring and I think I could have gone a couple of minutes further if I had wanted to. Thanks for listening to track 15 and thanks very much for your support. You can follow the story even further on our blog at http://myweightlossdream.co.uk/blog or follow our Podcasts at http://myweightlossdream.co.uk/podcasts
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Thanks again for listening and best of luck with your own jogging journey.
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