We have decided to run the Expedition Everest 5k challenge as a family. This means we also needed to convince a 10 year old, she is capable of running 3 miles. All of this happened while I was doing my recovery from my last race. This will be all of our first 5k. I am a little nervous because 3 miles is my most disliked distance. I am hoping to embrace the "short" run. While training for my first 1/2, 3 miles was my scary distance when I started, maybe that has just stuck with me.
I have never trained a child, I struggled training myself, and I am not an expert. That being said, I started this blog to encourage and log my training to hopefully inspire others not sure of where to start. I will continue that now as I also work with my daughter to get her 5k ready. The Girl regularly talks about running the mile at school and that some days PE consists of run/walking the track for the allotted class time. I also know she is capable of walking miles and miles at Disney without whining. I used these benchmarks as a starting point as to what seemed like a reasonable goal. My husband had taken her on a 2 mile walk the other day and she was running ahead and back, in a similar fashion to a quarter drill for a good chunk of that. As the member of the family that has done a race before, my main job will be encourager/pacer.
I decided to take her out for a 3 mile run/walk to see where we were starting. Since it is a Run Disney event they have a required pacing of 16 min/mile. The girl and I did 3 miles in 42 minutes. I also added in a 1/4 mile warm up and cool down lap. We started with a 1:1 run walk ration of 1 minute. Now that we know she can keep the pace required for the race we are going to slowly build up the run:walk ratio. We will likely add in some upper body work-outs for all of us since we are unsure of what the obstacles will be.
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