FIVE THOUSAND!

Last night my buddy Alan suggested that I do a 5K with him in April. Not sure of the exact date at the moment, but I believe it's either the Cocoa Run (which sounds right up my alley) on April 6, or the Martian Run on April 12. The Martian Run was actually the first 5K I ever ran... would be kind of neat to do it again.

I've been trying to decide how I want to run my conditioning training and I think getting back into running may be the way to go. When I was first getting into exercising I ran couch to 5K and starting strength together; that was the leanest I had been in a while. Worked my way up to running 10K once or twice too. At the moment, I feel as though I would not be able to run a 5K straight through. Yet I'm not entirely untrained. So two months... seems like an amount of time that is completely do-able.

I'm not too concerned about my speed, I'd rather just get my endurance up. I'm torn between Hal Higdon's 8-week program and just jumping into C25K. I'll decide by next Monday. This week I've focused on getting some good yoga/stretching sessions in. Even though I wrote out my training plan last week I've jumped into it in stages:

1. Weight Training
2. Yoga/Stretching
3. Conditioning

That way the volume, amount of exercise, and training load in general do not seem too daunting. So much of it is a mental game and changing everything at once can be tough to do. Looks like I'll have to start bringing my chucks and running shoes to the gym next week.