Run club

I have joined a running club.

I have absolutely no idea why it took me so long to do it.

I absolutely love it!!

So far, I have only done 2 short slow runs  and one interval session and the slow runs have been great cruising along and making sure that I run the full distance and adding a little fartlek (I just learned that term) at the end.

Then the intervals, that session very near killed me. Looking back over my heart rate monitor for the workout, I hit a new highest heart rate of 192 and my average was 158bpm! 

It nearly killed me, except that it didn't. I made it back, I made it home and I feel like me legs wouldn't quite carry me up the stairs at work but I did it. I went out of my comfort zone and even though I wasn't quite in the "magic" area, I am a lot closer than I was a month ago!

The run club is amazing! These are the sessions they have each week;

Monday - intervals

Tuesday - slow run or tempo run

Wednesday - morning tempo run and evening hill run

Thursday - tempo main run

Saturday - long run

Sunday - long intervals

There is just one membership fee to join up - a grand total of $60. That's not $60 a month, that's per year! It works out st $5/month. So even one session a week and it is less than $1.25/session! Amazing! I guess a group of people running together doesn't have a lot of overhead costs.

There are a bunch of running clubs all over the world, a quick google search showed up a whole bunch!