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The Belleville Running Club is a non-competitive running group based in Belleville, IL. Our group meets on a regular basis in or around Belleville, IL. 

All are welcome. Please come join us for a run!


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The Belleville Running Club is participating in St Clair County's Get Up & Go health initiative, and Our goal is to help motivate people to take up running by helping them train for their first race (or their first race in a long time).  We hope that each of our members can help someone new make their running debut at the Law Day Run on May 3rd, 2008."  (Get Up & Go is a Health and Fitness Challenge for Communities, Groups and Organizations of St. Clair County, Illinois)

To everyone out there who is an experienced runner: Start encouraging your friends who have been talking about taking up running to train with us and make the Law Day Run their 1st 5k. 

To everyone out there who has been waiting for that perfect time to really get into running, here is your chance. 

This is what we have put together for a training schedule:

 

Beginners 5K Training Schedule

 

Weeks

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sunday, April 06, 2008

4

Walk/XT 20 min or off

Run 10 Min

Walk/XT 20 min or off

Run 15 Min

Walk/XT 20 min or off

off

Run 2.5 Miles

Sunday, April 13, 2008

3

Walk/XT 25 min or off

Run 20 Min

Walk/XT 25 min or off

Run 20 Min

Walk/XT 25 min or off

off

Run 3 miles

Sunday, April 20, 2008

2

Walk/XT 30 min or off

Run 25 Min

Walk/XT 30 min or off

Run 25 Min

Walk/XT 30 min or off

off

Run 3.5 Miles

Sunday, April 27, 2008

1

Walk/XT 30 min or off

Run 30 Min

Walk/XT 30 min or off

Run 30 Min

Walk/XT 30 min or off

off

Law Day Run (5/3/08)

XT: Cross Train
Training schedule based on http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-380-381--11942-0,00.html
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Last updated: April 10, 2008.