10×10 in 2010

Archive for March 28th, 2010

He conquers who endures.
– Persius

We’re in it now.  39% of the way to the goal, and the water weight is gone.  Having past 12 weeks of progress, the midpoint is coming up, and enduring the painfully slow progress is becoming both a habit and a trial. Read the rest of this entry »

My New Running Shoe

Last weekend, in preparation for the running project, the family went on a trip to buy a pair of running shoes for yours truly.  Since we were already at a sporting goods store it seemed like a good idea to save some time and buy the shoes there. Wrong answer.  While the shoes weren’t “bad”, they didn’t fit quite right, and I’ve since learned that if running shoes don’t fit well at the store, they never will.

Fast forward to yesterday, when we took a jaunt up to Bauman’s Running and Walking Shop in Grand Blanc, Michigan.  It’s about 20 minutes away, so not too far, and it also happens to be where Heather bought her shoes roughly six months ago.
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Yesterday (Saturday) marked the first week of a nine-week subproject – the “C25K” project.  It’s an interval program designed to take the average couch potato (me) off the couch and up to running 5k (3.1 miles) in only 9 weeks.  By running three days per week (27 times total), your body is conditioned to run 5k non-stop.  It’s not designed to make the hapless couch potato into a speed demon; that comes later.

So far, so good.