Well, I finished my consolidation period as planned, using several runs of the NRC Get Started plan at a time.
Below is the NRC plan and how I ran it, and it looks complicated. But it was simply following the mandatory runs, sometimes swapping these, and then filling the warmup period with optional runs.
So that meant that it took me 2.5 weeks to finish the originally 4-week NRC Get Started plan, which I think is great, considering that I had graduated the second time from C25k just before.
But more valuable was a solid introduction to every kind of run Coach Bennett thought useful for me at this stage, from understanding why 5min runs are also worth doing, to Fartleks, intervals, and speed runs.
14/06/2022
Week 1‘s First Run - 20-min Easy Run
Week 1’s Next Run - 22-min Easy Run
16/06/2022
Week 2’s First Long Run - 35-min Easy Run
18/06/2022
Week 2’s First Speed Run - 27-min Intervals
22/06/2022
Week 1‘s Optional Run - 5-min Easy Run
Week 2’s Optional Run - 7-min Easy Run
Week 3’s Next Speed Run - 25-min Intervals
24/06/2022
Week 3’s Optional Run - 10-min Easy Run
Week 3‘s Third Run - 25-min Easy Run
28/06/2022
Week 4’s Next Long Run - 42-min Easy Run
01/07/2022
Week 4’s Optional Run - 12-min Easy Run
Week 4‘s Third Speed Run - 19-min Fartlek
And the biggest learning on this journey was to deepen my appreciation for the core message of:
Celebrate every run!
So happy running, everyone and celebrate those runs… every single one of them!
Next on my consolidation journey: NRC’s 5k plan.
