Half Marathon preparations

 

Only six weeks left until the S25 Half Marathon here in Berlin. Good that the weather has improved and the icy days are over. Quite some work to do though until race day. Today I was curious about the track so I plotted it in https://www.plotaroute.com/runningrouteplanner and I was pleased to see that it is mostly flat, and actually not much different from my usual training track. I also found out that I can generate gpx files and upload them to my mobile, which seems quite useful.

Maybe one weekend I will do my long run there to get familiar with the track.

Running and hiking is fun

It's been a while since the last post. Running is going great, I finished the C25K as planned and kept running regularly two or three times per week, at some point starting to do slightly longer routes. And then, all of a sudden, last week I went out for an easy 6 km run, however half way through I decided to make it 8 km and a bit later I thought I may as well do 10 km. Slow average pace of 6'47", pretty constant  pace throughout (max 6'42" and min 6'47") despite a few unexpected ups and downs in the unplanned route. Even better, when I finished, I was tired but not exhausted and definitely proud of myself, quite some progress in the last months.

At the same time I have been doing some longer walks each weekend, around 20 km each, with a full backpack and with repeat ups and downs in Teufelsberg Rodelberg. Training for El Camino!

C25K 2025 edition

I started jogging again a few weeks ago. In fact, tomorrow I will start week 4, so far so good.

PS April 11th: Finishing week six, 25 minutes without stops. From now on, it´s "just" 25, 28 & 30 minutes of running in weeks seven, eight and nine. Almost there and it feels like I could run 30 minutes already now anyway.

C25k Plan | Couch to 5k - C25K Running Program

C25K mid of week 7

Short update, a couple of days ago I went out for a light run, the 20th time since I started the C25K plan. I was meant to run 25 minutes non-stop, however I was feeling well and decided to stretch it a bit and  ended up running 30 minutes, ie achieved the goal slightly ahead of the plan. From now on it is just keeping up going out two or three time per week until it becomes a habit.

C25K end of week 3

 So far so good, in fact better than the plan. Looking forward to week 4

C25K

 

So far, so good. About to start week 3 of Couch to 5K