If at first you don't succeed...

My first post tells of our failure to complete the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge earlier this year (2013). Looking back it is so obvious that we were not prepared for the 25 mile walk over the three peaks. We greatly underestimated the challenge and it rightly smacked us down and sent us away hurting (My knee ached for weeks!)

But as we walked (limped) back to the car we were talking of giving it another go at sometime in the future. And now the future is here - a concept that in reality only make sense if time travel exists. 

Actually I've mislead you. The future is 21st June 2014 (unless, of course you are reading this after 21st June 2014, when in fact the future will be the past)

And this time we are going to prepare a little* more. According to the app on my phone we have 224 days to prepare this time, unlike the 3 weeks we gave ourselves this year.

Step 1 is stamina. Last week we started on a Couch to 5k programme. This is the well publicised programme that takes around 9 weeks, and we see it as a good first step in preparing for the challenge. We started last Saturday and the link below shows the first day's details.

Day 1 route and time

For anyone who wants to start jogging, or just get a bit fitter, this programme is great. For the fist week you do a warm-up walk for 5 mins, run 60 seconds then walk 90 seconds.. You repeat this 60/90 seconds a total of 8 times before doing a cool-down walk of 5 mins.

We are moving onto week 2 tonight, which is 5mins walk, then 6 repetitions of 90 seconds running / 120 seconds walking and finishing with a 5 mins cool-down.

Google C25k for more info (if you have an Android phone, there a many apps in the play store for this - I assume other app stores are also catered for!)

Well that's enough for today. I've got to go and get changed into my jogging stuff.

M


* A little, as in Apple has a little more cash in the bank than RIM (Blackberry)