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Week C days 1 and 2
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livI chatted to rmc28 at the New Year party, and the conversation briefly touched on running, which in turn inspired me to actually drag myself out for the first run of 2013 on New Year's Day! They do say you should start as you mean to go on...
It wasn't a great run, but I'm really proud of doing it at all! The thing is we didn't actually get up until about sunset (!) on Tuesday, so it was getting dark and cold by the time I went out. And I was obviously tired and not feeling that great from the previous night's excesses, not to mention that I walked most of 7 miles on NYE itself betweenjack's place towards Fen Ditton and the two parties in north Cambridge. Not fast, but hard pavements and not especially well cushioned shoes. And it was a bit on the edge of warm enough for me to run without triggering asthma, I think 7 or 8 when I left the house but colder by the time I got back as the sun sank below the horizon.
3.9 km in 35 minutes, including the warmup, so not my best 30 minutes but not my worst either. I was running on Coldham's common, which was pretty waterlogged, so I was a bit slowed by having to detour round huge puddles and through the mud. And it felt like hard going, it was an effort to make myself complete. So 3.9 km (or over 2 miles of actual running) was not a bad achievement, considering.
Today in contrast was a pretty good day 2 run. I ran the DNA path again, this time alternating 5 minutes of walking and 10 minutes of running. The weather was pleasant, reasonably warm if overcast. I did my 5 km in a tiny fraction over 45 minutes or three sets of walk+run intervals plus a few steps right at the end. So quite a bit faster than the 5 km I did last week (over 50 minutes), and indeed my average pace according to Runkeeper was 9'/km, or faster than the 30 minute run on day 1 even though I went 20% further and I was walking for a third of the time.
Another good thing was thatjack came out with me, and actually paced me for almost the whole thing. He slowed his running down to my speed, and was able to complete the first and second 10 minutes without a break. For the third, he extended the recovery walk to 10 minutes and ran the final 5 minutes, but not significantly slower than me doing 5+10. So he covered 5 km (plus walking another km or so back to my parents), including 25 minutes of actual running.
Anyway, that was really quite enjoyable, and I'm still measurably improving!
rmc28 at the New Year party, and the conversation briefly touched on running, which in turn inspired me to actually drag myself out for the first run of 2013 on New Year's Day! They do say you should start as you mean to go on... It wasn't a great run, but I'm really proud of doing it at all! The thing is we didn't actually get up until about sunset (!) on Tuesday, so it was getting dark and cold by the time I went out. And I was obviously tired and not feeling that great from the previous night's excesses, not to mention that I walked most of 7 miles on NYE itself between
jack's place towards Fen Ditton and the two parties in north Cambridge. Not fast, but hard pavements and not especially well cushioned shoes. And it was a bit on the edge of warm enough for me to run without triggering asthma, I think 7 or 8 when I left the house but colder by the time I got back as the sun sank below the horizon. 3.9 km in 35 minutes, including the warmup, so not my best 30 minutes but not my worst either. I was running on Coldham's common, which was pretty waterlogged, so I was a bit slowed by having to detour round huge puddles and through the mud. And it felt like hard going, it was an effort to make myself complete. So 3.9 km (or over 2 miles of actual running) was not a bad achievement, considering.
Today in contrast was a pretty good day 2 run. I ran the DNA path again, this time alternating 5 minutes of walking and 10 minutes of running. The weather was pleasant, reasonably warm if overcast. I did my 5 km in a tiny fraction over 45 minutes or three sets of walk+run intervals plus a few steps right at the end. So quite a bit faster than the 5 km I did last week (over 50 minutes), and indeed my average pace according to Runkeeper was 9'/km, or faster than the 30 minute run on day 1 even though I went 20% further and I was walking for a third of the time.
Another good thing was that
jack came out with me, and actually paced me for almost the whole thing. He slowed his running down to my speed, and was able to complete the first and second 10 minutes without a break. For the third, he extended the recovery walk to 10 minutes and ran the final 5 minutes, but not significantly slower than me doing 5+10. So he covered 5 km (plus walking another km or so back to my parents), including 25 minutes of actual running. Anyway, that was really quite enjoyable, and I'm still measurably improving!
