JennysSeven
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 18, 2015
Hello all! I've been lurking around this section of the boards for awhile, reading a lot of the training journals here. I haven't felt "qualified" to post my own, mostly because I have a hard time thinking of myself as "a runner" and I'm still in the baby stages. But I'd love some accountability/advice and this seems like a friendly and knowledgeable group!
A little bit of background... I am 47 years old (48 next month--eek!) and moderately active, but was never a runner. I can walk for miles and miles, but I always (only half-jokingly) told people, "If you ever see me running, you'd better run too because something bad is chasing us!" LOL.
I don't even remember now why, but back in the beginning of February of this year my then 14-year-old son, Jordan, and I decided to try doing a Couch to 5K program and run an actual 5K at the end of it. Turns out my son is a natural runner. Me, not so much, but I stuck with it and we both ran a local 5K together at the end of March. And by "together" I mean we were both at the same event--he left me in the dust, finishing in 26 minutes and change while I barely managed to come in under 40 minutes.
While we were in the middle of C25K, I started looking at this board and telling Jordan about the runDisney races. Since we're HUGE Disney fans, I thought a Disney race would be a fabulous motivator. Of course his first suggestion was "Ooh, let's do Dopey next year!" to which I had to reply "Not so fast, buddy, I don't want to die yet!" or some such. So, fast forward a few months and we decided on the Star Wars Kessel Run Challenge instead.
So we're currently training for that, and I have to admit I have NO idea what I'm doing! At this point, I'm mostly trying to build up my endurance, and not really worrying too much about speed. But eventually I'll have to work on that too. Our biggest challenge right now is trying to figure out the most effective ways to train together, since Jordan is considerably faster than I am.
If you made it this far, thanks!! I'll share what we're doing so far in a different post.
A little bit of background... I am 47 years old (48 next month--eek!) and moderately active, but was never a runner. I can walk for miles and miles, but I always (only half-jokingly) told people, "If you ever see me running, you'd better run too because something bad is chasing us!" LOL.
I don't even remember now why, but back in the beginning of February of this year my then 14-year-old son, Jordan, and I decided to try doing a Couch to 5K program and run an actual 5K at the end of it. Turns out my son is a natural runner. Me, not so much, but I stuck with it and we both ran a local 5K together at the end of March. And by "together" I mean we were both at the same event--he left me in the dust, finishing in 26 minutes and change while I barely managed to come in under 40 minutes.
While we were in the middle of C25K, I started looking at this board and telling Jordan about the runDisney races. Since we're HUGE Disney fans, I thought a Disney race would be a fabulous motivator. Of course his first suggestion was "Ooh, let's do Dopey next year!" to which I had to reply "Not so fast, buddy, I don't want to die yet!" or some such. So, fast forward a few months and we decided on the Star Wars Kessel Run Challenge instead.
So we're currently training for that, and I have to admit I have NO idea what I'm doing! At this point, I'm mostly trying to build up my endurance, and not really worrying too much about speed. But eventually I'll have to work on that too. Our biggest challenge right now is trying to figure out the most effective ways to train together, since Jordan is considerably faster than I am.
If you made it this far, thanks!! I'll share what we're doing so far in a different post.