10K workout 2.6

Yesterday was my day off and appeared to be my eat crap day too.

For breakfast we had pancakes, I only had one, but I should note my pancakes tend to be about 6 inches in diameter. Earlier in the week I made chocolate chip cookies which I usually only bake a dozen at a time, but not this time, I baked the entire batch. Sadly there are less than half of the cookies left, thankfully, I wasn't the only one eating them. But cookies were lunch! Bre and I made a quick trip to the grocery store, just in case the predicted snow storm actually hit and on the way to check out what did they do...pulled out a fresh batch of fried chicken, which I normally can't stand to eat, love the smell, not the taste! But they were having a deal so we bought 16 pieces. NOOOOO we didn't eat all of that and I had one piece, followed by more cookies for desert.

Long run day today, but only 2 miles. Since I want to start the Suck Less Program tomorrow I decided to take the initial tests tonight, so with humiliation, here are my results:

200 sit-ups initial test: 32
100 push-ups initial test: 12
200 squats initial test: 29

 Today's workout results: 2 miles in 18:43 minutes which averaged a 9:21 pace.

Suck Less Challenge

I came across this challenge on 365 days of awesome's blog. I had a few days of catching up on reading other people's blogs. The first blog title that caught my attention 'Bah, Monday. You're a Jerk.' In her blogs she gives you an update of her results from her previous weeks workout and she also shares her workout plan for the week. I admit, I don't view her results in too much depth as she is a more experienced runner than I but today some of her workout titles caught my eye.

For Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week it just said Suck Less! Um okay, what does that mean??? But underneath her weeks workout plan she writes "What is the Suck Less Program, you might ask? It's the lazy/ cheap person's at home cross training 'program'."

Whoo hoo sign me up because on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays my 10K training program states to either walk or cross train. With this program I might just do both walking and cross training!


I am going to attempt to copy Suck Less program here, you can also click here to view it.

Suck Less

Go to each of these sites and take the 'initial test'.

Two hundred sit-ups

Two hundred squats

One hundred push-ups

Take you results from each initial test and locate the column that your results fall in, this will be your work out column for the week.

This program is a six week program, but for those of us whose initial scores are pretty low, I am thinking after six weeks of retaking the initial test and restarting the program.