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Wish Me Luck on My Next Race

  • Kerrie

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:

Kadie's daughter Al, Kadie, Tiffany, Karla, Kim, Mel, Zoe, me and Alma at the Santa Runs Tacoma 5K

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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  1. Kim @ (Just) Trying says:
    January 11, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    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.

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    1. Kerrie T. says:
      January 11, 2012 at 12:26 pm

      I’ll post something on the group page and get a head-count going. I vote for not matching this time. LOL

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  2. 13758256521305407705 says:
    January 11, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    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 🙂

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  3. Tall Mom says:
    January 12, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    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??

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  4. Christine says:
    January 13, 2012 at 3:23 am

    I’m planning on improving on 5k, 10k and half marathon this year as well. Once you found your training plan, please share! 🙂 Thanks

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    1. Kerrie T. says:
      January 13, 2012 at 7:16 am

      Sure thing! (I’m thinking of copying Mel — Tall Mom’s plan…)

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  5. Nicole says:
    January 13, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    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?

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