C25K week 5 hath commenced
Jul. 29th, 2010 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
losingitIt wasn't pretty, but I did it.
I think I need to try and focus on time rather than distance. I was looking at the coolrunning.com "spreadsheet" and realized they're basing their distances on a 10-minute mile. And I'm not there yet. I can't even do a full 15 minutes at 5mph (a 12 minute mile) - I have to drop down to 4.7 or 4.8 for at least 30 seconds. Or I have the past two runs.
Saturday - which will be early as I've got Lilith Fair tickets starting at 3pm - is the two 8-minute run segments. And then Monday will be the first 20 minute run. EEK!!! Definitely making Sunday a rest day before that!!!
I suspect that part of the issue may be that I've been something along the lines of a slug as of late on my non-run days - and not doing the Yoga thing after my runs. Must get back on doing more workouts! Like TOMORROW!!!
I think I need to try and focus on time rather than distance. I was looking at the coolrunning.com "spreadsheet" and realized they're basing their distances on a 10-minute mile. And I'm not there yet. I can't even do a full 15 minutes at 5mph (a 12 minute mile) - I have to drop down to 4.7 or 4.8 for at least 30 seconds. Or I have the past two runs.
Saturday - which will be early as I've got Lilith Fair tickets starting at 3pm - is the two 8-minute run segments. And then Monday will be the first 20 minute run. EEK!!! Definitely making Sunday a rest day before that!!!
I suspect that part of the issue may be that I've been something along the lines of a slug as of late on my non-run days - and not doing the Yoga thing after my runs. Must get back on doing more workouts! Like TOMORROW!!!
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Date: 2010-08-02 08:53 am (UTC)Week 5 is a cool week :-D
Switching to doing the program by time is a good idea. Once you're used to running for longer streches of time you can work on speed, and there's absolutely no reason to push yourself to run that far this early in the process.
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Date: 2010-08-02 10:30 am (UTC)I've pretty much been doing it by time thanks to the podcasts. I'm just not worrying about speed at the moment. My thinking on today, since I'm using my own choice of music (I figure with a long run and not needing someone to tell me when to run and when to walk I can pick stuff I actually WANT to listen to) I'll go for 20 minutes and see how I'm feeling. If I'm feeling good, I may shoot for 2 miles, and if not, I can go to my walk (or go to it at any point after the 20 minutes) and feel good about doing the 20 minutes. :)