Archive for September, 2009
a "low-keyed fixture"
On January 28, 1979, Charles Kuralt spoke the words “Here begins something new” and opened the very first edition of CBS Sunday Morning. The show will never be described as “fast-paced” or “hard-hitting.” In fact, the description that shows up on my DVR is “an elegantly low-keyed Sunday morning fixture.”
Since I generally run with the club on Sunday mornings, it seems an appropriate metaphor for another segment of the club — a group that looks at the run schedule and is sometimes intimidated by the length of the listed run. Six or seven miles looks like a VERY long distance from our vantage point.
We don’t all have the same goals. We haven’t all trained for the same length of time. Some of us have a few more years (or pounds) under our belts.
But it would be nice to one day run with the big dogs without collapsing in a heap at the 2 mile marker. Or to have a big dog run with us and not feel like we are holding them back.
I’ll work off the weekend club runs and plan shorter ones which work the best to fit in with this training schedule: Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan.
When we have completed that, we will move on to work towards 10K.
We can communicate here so everyone will know where we are in the training plan, and who’s going to be at the club run.
Week One is easy-peasy… alternating 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for 20 minutes.
We can do that!
The Sunday club run is Tuscarora Creek Park and it’s PERFECT to start the plan. We’ll take the run backwards and just go out and back on the W & OD Trail.
Remember that the weekend runs are back to 8:00 am now, so we shouldn’t have any problems with oversleeping/darkness.
Directions to the run:
http://loudounroadrunners.org/maps/Tuscarora.pdf
Who’s with me?