Not quite there yet

[ewt]

Thursday my joints were too iffy to run, and today I have swollen glands and a headache as well as joint pain, so I'm not going to push it. The event at the weekend took a lot of physical stamina and I think I'm still recovering from that (certainly my voice still is -- I did a lot of singing).

I plan to run tomorrow if I'm feeling better, and then on Friday. Next week I'll try to get back to the Monday/Thursday schedule.

Week 3 day 2

[liv]

I learned my lesson from the weekend, and dragged myself to the gym this evening instead of running outdoors. The advantage is that running on the treadmill gave me pace. I did the calculations and realized that my goal speeds of 6 kph walking and 7.5 kph running are only slightly faster than I've been managing so far, so I set the treadmill to those speeds and pushed myself to actually complete the whole thing at pace. It was doable, and it didn't even feel like I was at the limits of what I can do, though definitely hard work. And I think it's good for me not to let myself slow right down for the recovery sections.

I successfully completed the second workout, 2.5 km in 23 minutes (including the 5 minute warmup). This gives me an average pace of 9'12'' /km, which is faster than I've measured with Runkeeper before. Plus I walked 1.5 km to the gym and the same distance back, though I wasn't going particularly fast.

Week 3 Day 1

[rmc28]

Success!

I was a bit worried I wouldn't feel well enough after work, with the cold not quite gone.  But I packed my stuff anyway and decided to give it a go.  I seem to have got a good slow running pace this time, no stitches and good breathing, even on the two 3 minute runs.  So that is a win.  It feels a bit ridiculously slow, but it works.

Scheduling now gets a bit tricky; to keep on track and keep my running weeks aligned with my study weeks I should run Wed & Fri to finish this week, and then Sun, Tue and Thur next week.  Both Wed and Fri are going to be tricky in the evening for different reasons and are my usual days for morning school run; I am going to try setting my alarm an hour earlier those days and hold asking Tony to cover my school runs as a backup.

Sunday and Tuesday are a lot easier to fit running into, thankfully.  Today's positive run has me keen to continue.