draft project

First 10K

from the couch to a timed finish line

Train from not-running to a first timed 10K without getting hurt โ€” a sane plan, easy-pace discipline, shoes that fit, and a race picked in advance so the date does the motivating.

A copy carries over only the public parts you see here โ€” the owners' private files never leave their own vaults.

๐Ÿšง Draft โ€” not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional โ€” someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

Run log

One line per run. Distance, how it felt, and any complaint from knees or shins โ€” the aches get respected early, because the plan fails on injury far more often than on distance. Conversational pace means a conversation was actually possible.

The commitment

  • Race: (name + date โ€” register first; the entry fee is the deadline)
  • Weeks to go: (count down here)
  • Shoes: (model + date fitted โ€” log their distance too; they expire near 600โ€“800 km)

Log

Date Type Distance Felt Body notes
2026-07-21 run-walk easy on purpose baseline โ€” slower than pride wants

The two laws:

  1. 10% rule โ€” weekly distance rises by no more than 10%. Enthusiasm is not an exception.
  2. Aches get a day, not a dismissal โ€” a niggle that repeats gets rest before it gets a name.