Back To Running!

Hey everyone,

Hope you are well. I can't believe in just a few days it will be October, that means cooler weather, sweaters, boots and great weather for running. Karina and I had our 1 year anniversary of running her first half marathon in Philadelphia September 20th.

We have officially started back on a running routine. :-) The both of us along with her good friend Angela, 2 of my clients and 1 of my coworkers are preparing for a Half Marathon 2011.

We are preparing for the Flushing Meadow half marathon on April 2, 2011. This will be Karina's second half marathon and the others first!

I have just recently started training these ladies on a running routine to prepare their virgin legs to the idea of keeping them moving for 13.1 miles. :-) Just like Karina I am confident each of them will be fine and can totally make this run happen in good time.

Monday me and 2 others ran for 3.5 miles. We did a little interval training on the treadmill. Since we are preparing way in advance this gives you all an opportunity to join us :-)

If you've ever thought about running now is your chance! We'd love to have a large group run with us in April. If you don't live in the NYC area don't be shy look for a race in your area.

I thought you might like doing what we did tonight so here you go:

3 min warm up walking on 1% incline.

At 3 min Run at comfortable speed until 1 mile
Increase the incline to 2% do your best to keep the same pace

At mile 2 increase speed.

Increase speed at mile 2.5 to as fast as you can go, decrease incline back to 1%

Run until 3 miles at this speed
Return to comfortable pace at mile 3 raise the incline back to 2%

Run until 3.5 miles
Return to 1% incline and begin cool down

Walk for 5 min

Congrats and Enjoy!

More running routines to come. Feel free to follow me on Twitter @tajlivingwell

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Taj

Photo provided by Fe IIya's on Flickr.