Revlon Run-Walk plea, part the first

[lagilman]

All right, it's early in the year, but I figure I should hit people early and often so they actually remember come time...

Once again, in May, I'm going to be participating in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women, which raises money to fund research into women's cancers.

How? Simple. I walk. You pay.

And to make it even more simple, in the New Year there will be a web site that you can go to (I'll link to it from here and my web site) and make a pledge via credit card.

See? You don't even have to break a sweat reaching for your checkbook! We make it so easy for you... *grin*

Comments

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Hey, y'all just roped me into the Walk...do I have to pay TOO?(grin, duck)

The City agency I work for as a consultant just sent around a Memo on Solicitations which boils down to Don't Even TRY It Here Even If It IS For a Good Cause. Grumble. I may ask my nice consulting agency supervisor who does such things as the Corporate Challenge if he has fundraising suggestions since I've never done this sort of event before. (Or if he'd like to, ahem, hand me some money? His, or the agency's, I don't care....)

Now I must deal with a training schedule for this, never having done a 5K even walking. Suggestions, o experienced one?

training notes

[lagilman]

Suggestions, o experienced one?


5k isn't too difficult if you're in reasonably good shape. We don't power-walk (I've been known to go ahead of folk and then double back, just to stretch my legs, but Esther keeps a nice steady pace). The thing to remember is that we're walking on city streets, so that's pavement, which is tougher on your legs than you'd think, and up and down hills you're not even aware of.

If you're not in good walking shape, the best thing you can do is learn how to limber up. And find the most comfortable pace for you to walk at (a distance walk, not "getting from train to office" walk). For me, that's about 3.8mph, but I've been told that I walk fast. *grin*

Probably the best training (if you don't have access to an adjustable treadmill) is just to get out and walk twenty minutes or more every day. Which is a damn healthy thing to do anyway, but not always possible in the winter, I know.

Failing that, walk up and down a lot of stairs. Or do step-ups (I use a 12-pack carton of coke for my step) while you're watching t.v.

Anyone else have any getting-in-shape tips they can share?

Re: training notes

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Grazie. I usually use the stationary bikes or the elliptical machine at the gym because the treadmills are all always taken at the only time I can go to work out. But hey, that's got to be good for something legwise anyway, right?

I walk pretty quickly, covering distance or not, so I suspect finding a pace won't be a problem. And since I live in a fourth-floor walkup, stairs are NOT a problem.(grin)

Walking twenty minutes or more a day--well, I do that =anyway= between commuting and running errands on my lunch hour and such.(wry grin)