{"id":554,"date":"2012-09-03T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=554"},"modified":"2012-09-03T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:18:29","slug":"c25k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"C25K"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest day<\/p>\n

One year ago tomorrow I began a C25K program with my sister. \u00a0Mississippi State University offers this program every Fall and my sister decided to do the program and asked me if I would do it with her. \u00a0I thought to myself, “Sure! \u00a0No problem!” and promised to participate.<\/p>\n

Wait! \u00a0What is C25K? \u00a0It is Couch to 5K. \u00a0Taking sedentary people (couch) and in 8-9 weeks have them ready and actually run a 5K race (3.1 miles).<\/p>\n

So, I was committed and ready to go. \u00a0You begin with a period of walking interspersed with a period of running~say walk 1 min. run 30 sec. until you are running 20 min. without stopping, etc. \u00a0It sounded pretty easy. \u00a0Until my knees decided to complain. \u00a0If I had not made that promise to my sister, there is NO WAY I would have completed that program. \u00a0But “A promise is a promise” and I saw it through to the successful completion of the 5K race. \u00a0There is no feeling like crossing a finish line. \u00a0You may cross the line dead last, but you successfully complete the race.<\/p>\n

So, since then, there have been other races and other training programs. \u00a0The one I am on right now is Hal Higdon’s intermediate level training program for the Half Marathon. \u00a0So far, so good. \u00a0The distance has not been too tough, it is just that you run five days out of the week instead of the three I was used to. \u00a0So, there have been challenges to face. \u00a0The Half Marathon is Nov. 3 and I am looking forward to crossing that finish line as well. \u00a0The goal for this race is to finish.<\/p>\n

All this to say, my sister and I have reached our one year anniversary as runners. \u00a0We have stuck with it and can officially call ourselves runners. \u00a0Cool beans!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Run: \u00a0Rest day One year ago tomorrow I began a C25K program with my sister. \u00a0Mississippi State University offers this program every Fall and my sister decided to do the program and asked me if I would do it with her. \u00a0I thought to myself, “Sure! \u00a0No problem!” and promised to participate. Wait! \u00a0What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}