Hello everyone,
Welcome to Week 8 of our St. John the Baptist Parent Association Couch to 5K. You have completed 7 weeks of training. Only 1 week until our Grand Finale St. Patrick’s Week Couch to 5K.
Planning your route
There are a number of free Apps that you can use to measure the distance you are covering in your session. Runkeeper and MapMyRun are two popular free apps that you can download to your smartphone from AppStore or Google Playstore that will track your distance, time, pace and more. If you have a device that measures your step count, it’s worth comparing the distance covered and the step count.
Here are a few ideas for routes that are approximately 5 kilometres around the town.
- Start at Lidl on the Cork Road. Turn left out of Lidl and continue up to the roundabout outside the gates of Amneal. Turn right and continue as far as the Golden Road roundabout. Turn right and continue as far Bosnan’s pub. Turn right and continue up to Lidl again. Approximately 5km.
- Start outside our school. Head towards the rugby club and follow the road around to the right around Minogues Furniture. Continue down past Lidl and Tesco and up the Main Street. Turn right up Friar Street as far as the right turn opposite the playground. Head towards the Green and then turn left up the Old Road towards the school again. Approximately 5km.
- Start at O’ Dwywer’s pharmacy on Lady’s Well Street. Run down the hill past Brú Ború. Turn left to go across the path at the base of the Rock. Turn left at the Dundrum Road to run back up past the Mart as far as Lower Gate street. Run back up Main street to Lady’s Well street. Repeat 3 times for approximately 5km.
You can check that you are adhering to Public Health Guidelines and that your route is within 5K radius of your home here.
Best of luck for week 8!
Karen Ryan, Michael Lenehan, Katarzyna Piasecka and Rebecca Lenehan
On behalf of BNS Parent Association
