{"id":169,"date":"2012-05-14T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=169"},"modified":"2012-05-14T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:55:29","slug":"couch-to-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2012\/05\/14\/couch-to-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Couch to 5K!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Has anyone ever heard of this?!\u00a0 Well, if you don’t even know what 5K…the k stands for kilometer, and 5k=3.1miles!\u00a0 Now we’re speaking American terms.\u00a0 But let’s go even further and talk runners terms!\u00a0 I am a HUGE fan of Groupons.\u00a0 If I’m not mistaken, part of being a virtuous woman (Proverbs 31) is to keep her eye out for bargains!\u00a0 So last week on Groupons, was 1\/2 off of a race called “Color Me Rad”.\u00a0 It immediately got my attention because everybody had colors all over them.\u00a0 I read more into it, and it is a 5K race in the middle of July in OKC that throws colored cornstarch all over your white clothes as you run every 5 minutes!\u00a0 Sounds fun, right?!\u00a0 It really does!\u00a0 I got to thinking…I can run 3 miles!\u00a0 My friend, Jinny, was visiting and happened to tell me about an app called “Couch to 5K” that gets you off of the couch, and running a 5 K in 9 weeks.<\/p>\n

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So the training begins!\u00a0 I talked BJ into doing the race with me.\u00a0 He has already ran a half marathon and a 5K a month ago, but I mean…with me…staying with me every second…crossing the finish line…with me!\u00a0 In him doing this, he is giving up his pride and probably finishing about 10 minutes later than he normally would!\u00a0 But we are going to have fun…teamwork!\u00a0 We started our “training” Saturday, and then ran again today!\u00a0 It’s really designed perfectly for people who have been “on the couch”!\u00a0 You start out with a 5 minute warm-up, then run 1 minute, walk 1 1\/2 minutes several times, and then end with a 5 minute cool down.\u00a0 The program takes 30 minutes.\u00a0 Let me tell you, it’s hard…but it is fun to hang out with BJ and have a goal in mind!\u00a0 Pregnancy and having babies has put me on the couch for the past 2 years, but I am slowly but surely getting off!\u00a0 I probably have one foot off so far!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>I believe there is a good lesson to learn in almost every situation…so here’s my 2 cents!\u00a0 This couch to 5K is a healthy way to work up to running 3.1 miles!\u00a0 There are many who are “on the couch” Christians who aren’t really doing anything to further their “walk” with the Lord.\u00a0 Who ever said we are supposed to just get up and run a marathon?!\u00a0 It takes time, and training.\u00a0 The first step is to get up off the “couch” and start slow.\u00a0 With the Lord’s help and relying on Him, we’ll be running in no time!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has anyone ever heard of this?!\u00a0 Well, if you don’t even know what 5K…the k stands for kilometer, and 5k=3.1miles!\u00a0 Now we’re speaking American terms.\u00a0 But let’s go even further and talk runners terms!\u00a0 I am a HUGE fan of Groupons.\u00a0 If I’m not mistaken, part of being a virtuous woman (Proverbs 31) is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","tag-fun","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}