More running (bored yet?)
Week four, run one today. Week four is structured as below:
My shoes are now nearly fully broken in, and although I got a blister on my last run, I wore them the whole day yesterday and they were feeling much more comfortable.
The runs were all pretty good, and I was chafing to be running again during the 2.5min walk in the middle.
When I got to the final run, I kept running through the five minute warm down, as well. My podcast, which tells me when to walk, when to run, etc, is the only track on my iPod, so I let my podcast cycle back to the start, and used the five minute warm-up timer as my warm-down timer instead.
Ten minutes is the longest I've ever run continuously in my life, and running more than 20 minutes in a 35 minute session is ...boggling to me. If you'd told me I would do that a couple of months ago, I would have laughed. the closest I've gotten before that was the six minutes I ran two days ago, and five minutes in Wellington last month before I kicked off the C25K.
What was even nicer was that during the ten minute run, I ramped up my speed to maximum after the first five minutes, and was still feeling good.
I didn't even noticed that my blister had gained a new blister under it until my five minute warm-down was nearly at an end.
Feeling pretty accomplished today.
- 5 minute warm up walk
- 3 minute run
- 90 second walk
- 5 minute run
- 2.5 minute walk
- 3 minute run
- 90 second walk
- 5 minute run
- 5 minute cool down walk
My shoes are now nearly fully broken in, and although I got a blister on my last run, I wore them the whole day yesterday and they were feeling much more comfortable.
The runs were all pretty good, and I was chafing to be running again during the 2.5min walk in the middle.
When I got to the final run, I kept running through the five minute warm down, as well. My podcast, which tells me when to walk, when to run, etc, is the only track on my iPod, so I let my podcast cycle back to the start, and used the five minute warm-up timer as my warm-down timer instead.
Ten minutes is the longest I've ever run continuously in my life, and running more than 20 minutes in a 35 minute session is ...boggling to me. If you'd told me I would do that a couple of months ago, I would have laughed. the closest I've gotten before that was the six minutes I ran two days ago, and five minutes in Wellington last month before I kicked off the C25K.
What was even nicer was that during the ten minute run, I ramped up my speed to maximum after the first five minutes, and was still feeling good.
I didn't even noticed that my blister had gained a new blister under it until my five minute warm-down was nearly at an end.
Feeling pretty accomplished today.