This has been the perfect time, because I started shortly after returning from India and about 12 weeks before I go to Philmont again. My goal is losing a bit of weight and being in as good of shape as possible to be able to backpack comfortably at 8000-11000 ft. elevation with a bunch of 14 year-olds for 10 days.
On June 23rd, my company is sponsoring the Heart of Summer 5k/10k. At work we have an employee-lead 10 week training program for people targeting walk-to-run, 5k, and 10k. I was going to do walk-to-run, but a colleague of mine was doing the 5k, so I thought I'd step up my plans a bit and go for that.
So, I'm running. I didn't think I'd ever be a "runner" and I'm not certain I'm actually one yet.
I have been exercising sometimes 4 and no less than 3 times each week for the past 8 weeks and I'm working on week 9. You can see my exercise log here on the right. This is a plot of Total Miles each Week.
You'll notice there has been a large increase in the miles the last two weeks. I have been trying to find out just how far my body can go. Unfortunately, I think I've found that. I didn't realize that I was increasing my mileage so quickly. I simply went from about 3 miles each run to 4-5 miles each run. It did add up and my shins have definitely been feeling it. The last few days they have been sore, but haven't recovered before it was time to run again. I've scaled back so that I don't hurt myself. I'll need to pay more attention to increasing my distance more slowly.
I ran a little yesterday and it was tough. I felt a little better after the run though, having stretched those muscles. I also iced them down for a half hour or so. This is manageable and I'm not too worried. I don't really *want* to scale back, but it's necessary. The 5k is coming up in just over a week and I'd like to do as well as possible on that. Then Philmont is 2 weeks later.
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