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rmc28(I ran a half-marathon last weekend. I'm still bloody proud of that; also that I was physically able to run again by Wednesday, but logistically couldn't manage it until yesterday.)
Yesterday I set out to run 10k - it ended up being more like 11k because of phone faff, but no big deal. It was really in two parts: the first was another Galloway Magic-Mile run taking ~3 miles/5k, and the second part, was a 5k "race mission" from Zombies Run season 1.
The Magic Mile went ok: the fast mile is always a bit horrible because it's running right at my limits and it's meant to be, but even so, I find myself unenthused about doing it very often. I had to walk for at least five minutes afterward before I stopped wanting to be sick. I didn't get the times out of RunKeeper till I got home, but I covered that mile in 9:37 which is nearly 40 seconds faster than the last one I did, back in January. That also translates almost exactly to a pace of 6min/km which would let me do 5k in 30 minutes. If I could sustain it for 5k, which currently: hell no.
Anyway, I have a new faster training pace of 9min/km, which indicates run:walk intervals of either 30:45 or 30:30 (it's 14:30 min/mile so exactly halfway between the two). I'll stick with 30:45 for now as I already have a tendency to go too fast when training and then regret it towards the end of a long run. I'm going to use this for the next 12 weeks, for the next two half-marathons I've signed up for.
Once I'd got back up to running gently and had covered the first 5k of my route, I fired up the race mission. This fitted nicely in after episode 13 and followed up one of the plot threads that seemed to have been ignored in the main season. There is a choice to use GPS or "constant pace" to estimate the distance covered. My phone is known-unreliable at calculating ZR distances on the fly (though the run once uploaded to Zombie Link is accurate enough) so I gave it a hoped-for pace of 8 min/km but I actually ended up running slower than that. The mission completed in pretty much exactly 40 minutes but as with standard ZR episodes let me carry on running until I told it I was done. The main difference from standard is that the audio dialogue didn't fit in between music tracks, but just lowered the music volume and came on when it wanted to, I think at appropriate "distances".
The plot apparently continues in the 10k and 20k race missions. My training plan will let me run these in the next few weeks and I'm looking forward to it; there's also a little pack of another 5,10 & 20k races I can buy for a small amount and I probably will.
From tomorrow I'm planning to make the shift from twice weekly lunchtime runs to thrice-weekly, and I'm going to do it by working through 24 episodes of Zom25k. This is partly to make the increase less challenging, and partly because I want to use another go through c25k to try to get my short-distance speed up, but the main reason is I want to hear the extra story content. [overly honest fitness methods?]
Yesterday I set out to run 10k - it ended up being more like 11k because of phone faff, but no big deal. It was really in two parts: the first was another Galloway Magic-Mile run taking ~3 miles/5k, and the second part, was a 5k "race mission" from Zombies Run season 1.
The Magic Mile went ok: the fast mile is always a bit horrible because it's running right at my limits and it's meant to be, but even so, I find myself unenthused about doing it very often. I had to walk for at least five minutes afterward before I stopped wanting to be sick. I didn't get the times out of RunKeeper till I got home, but I covered that mile in 9:37 which is nearly 40 seconds faster than the last one I did, back in January. That also translates almost exactly to a pace of 6min/km which would let me do 5k in 30 minutes. If I could sustain it for 5k, which currently: hell no.
Anyway, I have a new faster training pace of 9min/km, which indicates run:walk intervals of either 30:45 or 30:30 (it's 14:30 min/mile so exactly halfway between the two). I'll stick with 30:45 for now as I already have a tendency to go too fast when training and then regret it towards the end of a long run. I'm going to use this for the next 12 weeks, for the next two half-marathons I've signed up for.
Once I'd got back up to running gently and had covered the first 5k of my route, I fired up the race mission. This fitted nicely in after episode 13 and followed up one of the plot threads that seemed to have been ignored in the main season. There is a choice to use GPS or "constant pace" to estimate the distance covered. My phone is known-unreliable at calculating ZR distances on the fly (though the run once uploaded to Zombie Link is accurate enough) so I gave it a hoped-for pace of 8 min/km but I actually ended up running slower than that. The mission completed in pretty much exactly 40 minutes but as with standard ZR episodes let me carry on running until I told it I was done. The main difference from standard is that the audio dialogue didn't fit in between music tracks, but just lowered the music volume and came on when it wanted to, I think at appropriate "distances".
The plot apparently continues in the 10k and 20k race missions. My training plan will let me run these in the next few weeks and I'm looking forward to it; there's also a little pack of another 5,10 & 20k races I can buy for a small amount and I probably will.
From tomorrow I'm planning to make the shift from twice weekly lunchtime runs to thrice-weekly, and I'm going to do it by working through 24 episodes of Zom25k. This is partly to make the increase less challenging, and partly because I want to use another go through c25k to try to get my short-distance speed up, but the main reason is I want to hear the extra story content. [overly honest fitness methods?]
