10K Training: Why Clipart is Awesome
Yes I realize that I haven’t actually completed my first 5K yet, and that this whole thing might need to be revisited if I, say, collapse into a puddle of blood, sweat and tears1 after getting only 400 meters into the race. In that case, this training plan will be revised immediately to create a more suitable schedule involving Hostess Fruit Pies, America’s Best Dance Crew marathons and excessive wallowing.
I’ve drawn up a seven week plan (starting this Sunday) to get me ready for the Get in Gear 10k. It’s a mash-up of Hal Higdon’s program, Cool Running’s schedule and my own insanity. While I was making the chart, I realized that it was bo-ring and decided to add pictures of rewards I would get after completing a week. So I did what well-meaning high school teachers and corporate PowerPoint specialists2 have been doing for decades — I spiced it up with some Clipart. Which explains why, instead of giving myself “awesome” things like a Garmin or a massage, I get to harass city employees and foster illegal pets.
In any case, here’s the plan (click to enlarge). Wish me luck.
1. Cue “And When I Die.”
2. Best. Job. Ever.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:18 am
That was hilarious!
Arson… hmm… that does sound motivating. I love to set things on fire and there’s just never much of an opportunity.
Fortunately we’re moving to a place with a functional fireplace as I hear prison is not much fun.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
As your roommate, I have to discourage you to not reward yourself with a pet dragon. I feel that our furniture, already held together with duct tape and prayer, would not withstand a pet dragon. And given that it already gets ultra hot in our garden level in the summer, I do not want a pet dragon making it worse by panting with its fire breath and such. How about a kitty or a guinea big?