I haven’t registered for it yet, but I think my next race will be the St. Patty’s Day Run, a 5K, in Tacoma on March 17. It’s on my calendar. It’ll be fun. A bunch of these crazies will be there:
I hope to get lucky at the race…as in get a stellar PR! Geez, you guys, get your minds out of the gutter!
Now all I have to do is train for it. After the last 5K (Santa Runs Tacoma – recap here), Mel (Tall Mom on the Run) and I talked about really training for a fast 5K. Like really training. In fact, she mentioned two words the other day that scare me: track work. Ugh. I don’t even know where there is a track I can use by my house. I may have to drive over near Zoë (Run, Zoë, Run) because she posted about her awesome sub-7 mile time trial the other day at a beautiful-looking track.
Before I can do any training, though, I sort of need a training plan. Right? Any good 5K training plans out there? What did you use? Please help!
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Hey-Tiffany and I were just talking about the St. Paddy’s Day race on FB! We were wondering how much of “the team” would be running it.
I plan to get lucky with a 10k PR, fingers crossed.
Oh, and I would do whatever Mel’s plan is. Exactly. I hope she posts it online so I can borrow it in the fall.
I’ll post something on the group page and get a head-count going. I vote for not matching this time. LOL
I’m training for a 5k right now and I’m using RunnersWorld smart coach, it seems to work pretty well but I mainly use it as a guide and tweek it a bit depending on my running mood. However I don’t run my 5k till 2/12 so we will see. Running with a jogging stroller really helps with increasing speed, it may suck but it helps me 🙂
The plan I am thinking of using is:
http://www.halhigdon.com/training/50935/5K-Advanced-Training-Program
Modified version, we’ll see..
Would not really need a track but may be easier for the Tuesday workout than staring at the Garmin.
Training would start Jan 23rd if my Math is correct.
Thoughts?? Bueller??
I’m planning on improving on 5k, 10k and half marathon this year as well. Once you found your training plan, please share! 🙂 Thanks
Sure thing! (I’m thinking of copying Mel — Tall Mom’s plan…)
I wore pretty much the EXACT same outfit (same sparkle skirt, same socks!) in my Christmas races. I love it. I think I’m going to do the St. Paddy’s race in Seattle since I did it last year, but is it weird I don’t like races that aren’t comparable distances? Like that race is 3.75 miles or something, I don’t like that! What’s the Tacoma course like? Flat?