Juneathon III – Days 1 & 2

Posted: June 2nd, 2009 | Author: Mark | Filed under: Training | Tags: | 3 Comments »

So, Juneathon started yesterday The goal is to exercise every day, but me being me I completely forgot it was starting (despite the hint in the title…), but luckily for ol’ me, I walk 2 miles a day anyway. So Days 1 and 2 sorted :)

Tomorrow I start my fitness plan proper again. What this entails is:

  • 3 days (wednesday, fridays and sundays) doing strength work (i.e., compound lifts at the gym: squats, deadlifts, bench press etc)
  • 3 days (thursday, saturday, monday) cardio (i.e., runs through the park)
  • 1 day (tuesday) “rest” (which, since it’s a work day, and I walk from the train station to work – c. 1 mile each way – counts as exercise, nyah)

My running is going to start from scratch as I mentioned t’other day, and I will be following Running From 30’s tip of doing the Couch to 5k plan, and then the Non-Runner’s Marathon Guide after I can do 5k without stopping. That’ll be interesting, since after a year of ‘running’, I can still barely managed 1.5k…

No other races lined up as yet (other than the BUPA London 10k next year), so right now I am concentrating on fatloss and endurance. My lung capacity is shit, and am hoping that dropping 3 or 4 stone will help with that.

Happy Junathonning!

3 Comments on “Juneathon III – Days 1 & 2”

  1. 1 Running from 30 said at 1:44 pm on June 16th, 2009:

    I’ve been so behind in blog reading that I am only now catching up to the fact that this was your last Juneathon post! How’s it going? Still hanging in there with us?

  2. 2 Mark said at 2:17 pm on June 16th, 2009:

    Still around – I was out of action over the last four days thanks to overdoing it on squats at the gym :) LOL So Juneathon is more a restathon for me…

  3. 3 Running from 30 said at 5:30 am on June 22nd, 2009:

    Hope you’re feeling better!