Half an hour AGAIN

[jack]

I went back to the gym and did another half an hour: 5 minutes warming up, then alternating jogging at 7.8 and walking at 5.3, but this time I jogged for 70 seconds, and then walked for 50. This was definitely harder than last time, but also fell within what I was capable of, so I felt really chuffed to have improved it a little. I'm excited to see if I can eventually reach the point Liv's got to of running continually!

Comments

[liv]

Ooh, hello, you joined in with posting your progress. Yay for gradually improving!

Even if you don't want to follow the C25K programme precisely, I strongly suggest keeping the recovery times the same or even increasing them as you increase the running times. Because otherwise you soon won't have time to recover at all. I know my recovery times are longer than average because of asthma, but I think you're not going to get much benefit from walking for like 20 seconds or 10 seconds. Which would mean that you'd be trying to move from very short intervals such as 90 seconds to essentially continuous running really quickly, and I'm not sure that's going to be feasible.