In early
January a small news item appeared in the local paper looking for
unfit people to train up for the Manchester 10 Kilometer run in
May 2006. The only criteria being that they had little running
experience and generally considered themselves unfit.
These pages are
dedicated to those who wanted to rise to the challenge.....
Some had packed up
smoking, some wanted to lose weight, but above all they all wanted to
take up some sort of exercise to kick start them into a healthier
lifestyle.
So it was pleasing
to see such a good a good turnout on Saturday Jan 28th (at
9.30am no less!) It was a cold, cold morning, but they all braved it.
The 'induction' consisted of Tony waffling away with himself
about the aims of the group and getting everyone's commitment to stick
to a programme of running. We held an ice breaking session whereby
everyone introduced everyone else and talked about what had motivated
them to come along.
| Because this
exercise is being encouraged by the council's leisure department and variety of quantifiable data was taken. This data will then be taken
after the race (and perhaps monthly). |
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Blood pressure (systolic)
Blood pressure (diastolic)
Height
Weight
% Body fat
And after all the
measurements a ton of forms were filled in....then everyone went for a
jog.
The group will be meeting
each Sunday at Chorlton Waterpark at 10.am, at Chorlton Park at 7.00pm
and they will be meeting with each other on Fridays or other days in
order to stick to their programme*
Hopefully many of those on
'the programme' will be entering the Alex park 5k In April
A big thanks to Jonh and Ann
for helping out. John will be available at the park for runs during
themorning (details on other web pages)
* The programme given is a
generic training programme, but because everyone is different it may
be too challenging for some and not enough for others, so it need to
be used as a rough guideline until everyone finds their own pace.
Some picture from the data
gathering and our first run in January below
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