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Week D2 day 1
Jan. 14th, 2013 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livOK, last week was pretty much a wash-out, I only had one opportunity to run at all and only made 22.5 of my planned 30 minutes. So I decided to restart the week I'm thinking of as Week D with a clean slate.
I obviously wasn't going to try running outdoors in the snow / slush / ice. So I went to the gym late lunchtime, and gritted my teeth and made myself keep going for the full 30 minutes. It was harder than it should have been; I think partly my legs are tired from vigorous dancing at the weekend and from needing to use different muscles from normal to keep my balance in the slushy streets. I didn't want to give myself the option to quit again, so at 20 minutes in I slowed right down to 6.5 kph.
Anyway. 4 km in 35 minutes including the warmup, or 8'45'' /km. When I went to get changed, a woman in the changing room lavished me with praise for being able to keep going for so long when she can only manage 10 minutes at a time. I told her I'd had to work up to this gradually, but it did make me feel better about struggling to complete 30 minutes at the moment, when a week ago I was blithely doing 40.
I obviously wasn't going to try running outdoors in the snow / slush / ice. So I went to the gym late lunchtime, and gritted my teeth and made myself keep going for the full 30 minutes. It was harder than it should have been; I think partly my legs are tired from vigorous dancing at the weekend and from needing to use different muscles from normal to keep my balance in the slushy streets. I didn't want to give myself the option to quit again, so at 20 minutes in I slowed right down to 6.5 kph.
Anyway. 4 km in 35 minutes including the warmup, or 8'45'' /km. When I went to get changed, a woman in the changing room lavished me with praise for being able to keep going for so long when she can only manage 10 minutes at a time. I told her I'd had to work up to this gradually, but it did make me feel better about struggling to complete 30 minutes at the moment, when a week ago I was blithely doing 40.
