Week 5 done!
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c25kI completed week 5. I'm really proud of that, because the ramp up from 5 minutes continuous running to 20 minutes is the steepest part of the C25K curve. It took me slightly more than a week since I couldn't get out for several days (due to life reasons more than laziness, at least).
Run 1 with 5 minute intervals, 9½'/km. Run 2 with 8 minute intervals I have absolutely no measurement for since Zombies, Run! crashed after three minutes, and I thought I'd restart it once I got to the walking interval, and it crashed again so I tried restarting my phone, which then spent a very scary amount of time failing to boot. So I did two lots of 8 minutes which I didn't measure, with a very long gap in between while I tried to coax my phone out of its sulk. Phone is ok now, and I wasn't going for speed anyway, I was just trying to see if I could complete the two long intervals on a very hot day, and I could.
And today, the weather is finally bearable, and I ran a continuous 20 minutes at 9' 22'' /km. I didn't feel bad at all by the end, so I think I could have gone either further or maybe even a bit faster. I think if I manage to complete the whole 9 weeks I will in fact be a bit faster than the roughly 9½'/km I was running at the start, in 5 minute intervals. I was hoping to be somewhat faster by the middle of the programme, but then I have covered most of it during a very long heatwave, so probably wasn't building up speed as much as I might.
Also I have run exactly 50 km since I restarted using Zombies, Run! which is pleasing.
I managed to forget to put my running shoes on when I went out and ran in my normal shoes. They're soft-soled trainer-like things, so hopefully haven't wrecked my feet and ankles too badly. But anyway I didn't even notice until the end of the run, so hopefully it didn't have many consequences.
Run 1 with 5 minute intervals, 9½'/km. Run 2 with 8 minute intervals I have absolutely no measurement for since Zombies, Run! crashed after three minutes, and I thought I'd restart it once I got to the walking interval, and it crashed again so I tried restarting my phone, which then spent a very scary amount of time failing to boot. So I did two lots of 8 minutes which I didn't measure, with a very long gap in between while I tried to coax my phone out of its sulk. Phone is ok now, and I wasn't going for speed anyway, I was just trying to see if I could complete the two long intervals on a very hot day, and I could.
And today, the weather is finally bearable, and I ran a continuous 20 minutes at 9' 22'' /km. I didn't feel bad at all by the end, so I think I could have gone either further or maybe even a bit faster. I think if I manage to complete the whole 9 weeks I will in fact be a bit faster than the roughly 9½'/km I was running at the start, in 5 minute intervals. I was hoping to be somewhat faster by the middle of the programme, but then I have covered most of it during a very long heatwave, so probably wasn't building up speed as much as I might.
Also I have run exactly 50 km since I restarted using Zombies, Run! which is pleasing.
I managed to forget to put my running shoes on when I went out and ran in my normal shoes. They're soft-soled trainer-like things, so hopefully haven't wrecked my feet and ankles too badly. But anyway I didn't even notice until the end of the run, so hopefully it didn't have many consequences.
