5K Training

I've decided to also focus on my running. I'm now starting to train for a 5K race on May 23rd, which gives me 9 weeks. I have an 8 week training schedule that I got online. So, I'll be following that. One of my friends is also training to do the 5K, too, so that will be awesome. My training has me running 5 days a week. Monday is speed work (speed intervals of .25 miles), Wed is a low mileage run day, Thursday is a tempo run day "running at a sustained comfortably hard pace". Saturday is the long run day. And Sunday is the easy run day. Each week builds extra mileage/speed, etc.

It looks like a good schedule. Plus, it gives me Tuesdays and Fridays off, which will let me do the gymnastics open gym if I want and the trapeze. Plus, on the Low mileage Wednesday day or the easy run Sunday, I can do strength training. I'm hoping to do more running outside, especially for Sundays, where I can run with my dogs, since it's a timed run rather than a distance run. I'll probably need to do some of my long runs outside as well. I'll need to look into finding a nice park to run at.