My Journey With Weight Loss – Update On My Training

Yesterday the heat broke. It was a much more tolerable 26 C which we are used to during the summer. The problem was it had been so hot the previous few days that I actually found it cold. Even while I was out walking I never even started to sweat. It’s much cooler today but I still find it warmer than yesterday.

I wanted to give an update on my training as it is ramping up quite quickly. Let’s go back to the beginning. I started my training doing 10 intervals running 1:00 and walking 3:00 minutes. The first day did not go well as the muscles around my bad knee rebelled quite dramatically. I tried again the following week by doing 0:30 minutes running and 3:30 minutes walking and managed to do that 3 days. I was pretty proud of myself as I was able to run for 5:00 minutes on those training days.

As I have said before I have an awesome coach who made it clear we were going to do this slowly. Some weeks we would increase the running time but lower the number of intervals. Often times the increases would only be done on 1 out of the 3 training days . While the increases seemed slow it was working because each week I was becoming stronger.

The last 6 weeks things have really been moving forward. I have twice now run 5k (this was not planned but happened because my interval timer failed). I started increasing my running intervals by 1:00 each of the last 3 weeks and have added uphill interval training which is now at 6 intervals of 6:00 minutes. This week I am up to 10 intervals of 7:00 minutes running and 1:00 minute walking.

When I first started training 6 months ago I thought that first week of running a total of 5:00 minutes during training was quite an accomplishment but look at me now, 70 minutes of running on training days. Today I realized I had done 8 km during my training session so the ability to run a 10 km is just around the corner. Who would have thought a year ago that this is what I would be able to do.

I have also decided on my 4 training days (including the uphill day) I am going to remove one of my long walks (still have to walk the dog for an hour each day). As the training has ramped up I have been losing a bit more weight and I don’t really need to do that anymore. Instead I just want to keep getting stronger and maintaining my current weight.