10k training take one.
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Hi everyone, it's me, Hallease. I wanted to get on and just talk
to you about how I am training for a 10k. Earlier this year, Mr.
Hallease ran a 10k for prostate cancer awareness here in San
Antonio. And honestly I just kinda got bit by the run bug. I've
always just kind of run just to maintain a certain
level of physical health and never in any kind of competitive setting
at all. And so, I don't know, I just thought it would be a good
way to sort of challenge myself. I'm a video producer
and an editor and so for me my job is very sedimentary. I'm just
sitting here at my desk working eight hours a day,
and so I've really begun to try to figure out activities I can
do or goals I can try to reach that inadvertently help me stay
active. So joining a soccer team two years ago
was really big for me because it became about just getting better
at soccer, to be a good player for the team rather than I wanna
get in shape. So yeah, to train for the 10k I've never
trained for any kind of long distance, semi-long
distance run. Usually if I do run, I run for for about two miles,
and I'll finish my two miles in about 15 minutes or so. So my pace
isn't that good, I'm at a nine minute mile. But I can run
two miles without stopping. [LAUGH] I can do that. So, like I said I've
never trained for anything like this before. So I immediately wanted
to look for tools that I could use to help me train for this and
the only free tool that I knew about and have been using to train
for this 10k so far is the Nike Running Club App. They have this
really cool algorithm
built into the app where you tell it what you're trying to train
for. Give it a little bit of information by yourself, your height,
your weight, how many miles you run on average per week, and then
it builds a regimen for you based off of that. And I have essentially
just been following that. I believe I'm at week four of its eight
week training regimen. It uses a combination of runs. Tempo runs
where it wants you to run at a certain pace level. Benchmark runs,
where it essentially checks in to see if your speed, your endurance,
all of that stuff has gotten better since the previous week. Recovery
runs, which it wants you to run at a significantly slower pace.
And then, they also have like endurance in like distance type runs
where it starts saying like run further for longer, that sort of
thing. The Nike Running Club app also works in conjunction with
the Nike Training Club app which I have as well. So last week, it actually wanted me
to do a Nike Training Club workout as one of my exercise days. That
was actually really cool cause it really got me stretched out really
well, which was nice. I don't how well I'm doing necessarily because
usually at the most it has me running. I think the longest
I have run so far is 20 minutes, and in that 20 minutes I ran a
little bit over two miles. Lengthwise that's as far
as I've gone. But I actually think this week it wants me to run
for four miles straight [LAUGH] Which I'm a little terrified about cause
I have never run that far. So hopefully that goes well. Another thing
I have been doing to try to make that I am ready, and just putting
myself in the best physical condition to do this run that I can,
is been trying to drink enough water. If you follow me on Snapchat
you'll see my little updates of either a video or picture
of me showing you how much water I've drank in ounces
So because I weigh about 118 pounds, I weigh about 118. For my weight,
I should be drinking anywhere from like 60 to 64 ounces of water
a day. I think the rule of thumb is usually that you take whatever
your weight is and half it and then whatever that number is, that's
how many ounces of water you should be drinking. I take my water
bottle in the morning and fill it up to the top. And this water
bottle is labelled, which is really helpful to you. So I fill it
up to the top, which is 32 ounces, and I just leave this at my
desk. Cause I find that for me, if the water is just in my reach,
if it is within my grasp, I will naturally just pick it up and
just keep drinking it throughout the day. And then I find that
by midday this is gone. And then I usually just go to lunch or
have lunch and I usually drink water with most of my meals too.
And then when I come back for the second half of my workday, I
fill it back up again. And by the time it's time for dinner
I've almost pretty much finished this. So that is the way that I
drink enough water throughout the day. So, yeah, I mean, that's
what I'm doing. I'm currently training for a 10k. If anyone has
any running tips, tricks, please
let me know. If anyone has any good music that they think I should
listen to you while I'm running, let me know in the
comments below, because I have a little run
play list on Spotify. If you have that one, like this song is
your ride or die, like when this song comes on you're so hype and
ready to do your run/workout, let me know what it is in the comments
below cause I will definitely add it to my playlist. Cause I'm running
out of songs, I need new songs. So yeah [LAUGH] That's me, I'll see you when I
see you. Don't forget to start your week with me, I push out new
videos every Monday at noon central time. and make sure to follow
me on social media so you can stay in tune with everything I've
got going on. I'll see you when I see you.
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