Zom25k: week 1

[rmc28]

Last week I did the three runs that make up week 1 of Zombies 5k Training.

They seemed much more gentle than the C25k app I used last time: 10 minutes to warm up, then 10 lots of walk 1 min, run 15s, then 10 minutes "free form run" i.e. walk or run as you prefer. As it was my first week trying to do three easy runs plus a longer one at the weekend, I preferred just to walk.

I enjoyed the little bits of extra "around Abel township" content, got to know a few people a bit better.

I was amusingly incompetent with settings and failed to get any meaningful pace data out of the first week. Tip for other users: make sure you tick either GPS or accelerometer, it's possible to do the sessions without either.

My main worry looking ahead is that the lovely gentle start must mean ramping up faster later; also from the workout descriptions, the sessions get longer in later weeks, which will be a squeeze to fit into my normal lunch hour.

Zombies Run S2 ep 1

[rmc28]

I ran this at the weekend, with the episode length set "about 1 hour" because the goal was "about 5k at about 9 min/km" and I wanted to see how "about 1 hour" felt.

The episode itself was a bit confusing at the start but did then explain itself, and had me gripped right up to the twist ending. I hope there'll be some more backfilling of What Happened Between The Seasons in future episodes. I did find the two-song gap a bit less interesting, not helped when a 12-minute medley got selected from my huge running playlist. So I probably won't do episodes set at "1 hour" again, just use Radio Mode to fill up time if I need to.

At the end of the run I found that the dratted app had failed to record any GPS data for the first ~25 minutes, so I got no useful information about my running pace out of it. I think I'm just going to have RunKeeper run in parallel for all future weekend runs: ZR keeps me entertained but RunKeeper gives me more reliable data.

I'm also going to edit my running playlist to take out the excessively long songs (everything over 6 minutes?).