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The time has come to re-initiate the Couch to 5k program that I had to abandon a couple months ago. Knee pain is gone. I’ve been walking, though not as “religiously” as I had planned. With the extra walking, the knee wasn’t getting better fast enough. I stopped the walking for a couple weeks, and voila! Pain free.

The second part of getting back on the Couch to 5k program is find another program that has a longer schedule. The previous program had a crazy, in hindsight, 8 to 9 weeks to get my ass from the couch to running 5k (approx. 3 miles). I’ve finally settled on a program I found at Beginner Triathlete. This is their “conservative” schedule to getting to the 5k mark in 7 months. There is also a program that will get you there in 4 months, roughly twice the time in the original plan I was following. I feel somewhat vindicated that the “aggressive” program will take 4 months, meanwhile the plan I was trying to follow nearly made me lame. Okay, maybe that’s overstating it a bit.

Here’s a table of the first month’s schedule:

So as you can see the first steps of this program should be easily done by anyone. Also this bit on the page prior to the training schedule made me feel a little bit better.

“Use this if you are overweight. Will be easier on your joints. If you find that your knees hurt on this, it may be wise to lose some weight with a proper diet and start out with a swimming/cycling regimen for several months until you have lost some weight and have established an aerobic base.”

I think that pretty accurately describes me. So here goes. Follow along with me as I will almost definitely reach my goal. I will continue to make audio posts from Utterz. These will go over the feed as podcasts.

Let’s go!!