Week I day 3
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c25kAnother attempt to keep going at 7 kph for 5K. Interrupted about 2/3 of the way through because the treadmill had a minor fault and thought it was measuring my heartrate, even though I wasn't touching its electrodes. So it set up an alarm that my totally hypothetical heartrate was too high and a member of staff came rushing over to check I was ok. I am not annoyed at the staff for doing this, it's definitely better to err on the side of safety with something like that, but I'm in the abstract annoyed that I was interrupted in the middle of my run when the aim was to keep going at a steady pace.
I'm going to count this run anyway, even if it was in two chunks; the break amounted to less than 2 minutes and I really didn't have time to recover before getting going again. I ran at 7 kph for 10 songs, then 6.5 kph for the last km or so. Giving me a total time of 43'15'', so a decent improvement on my previous best time of just over 44 minutes.
I've now been running for 9 weeks since I "completed" C25K, ie as long as the original programme again. When I was doing C25K I improved from a mix of running and walking 2.5 km, to running 4 km. I improved from one minute runs to the 30 minute continuous run of the graduation week. I wasn't able to run 5 km at all, but my nominal time for that distance was approximately 50 minutes as I was able to walk 5 km briskly at about that pace. Maybe a little over, say 52 minutes or something. My average pace improved from roundabout 9½' - 10' /km at the start to roundabout 9'/km.
In the 9 weeks post-programme, I've improved my total distance to 5.5 km, and my 5 km time to today's 43 minutes. I've proved to myself that I can run for 45 minutes without a break, though I usually don't quite do that because I stop when I get to 5K! My average pace is usually somewhere around 8½' /km. Where I haven't really improved is in how far I can get in 30 minutes, in nine weeks I've gone from 3.5 km to 3.6 km, which is not really impressive after all that effort. But I definitely am improving in other ways, so I'll keep at it.
I'm going to count this run anyway, even if it was in two chunks; the break amounted to less than 2 minutes and I really didn't have time to recover before getting going again. I ran at 7 kph for 10 songs, then 6.5 kph for the last km or so. Giving me a total time of 43'15'', so a decent improvement on my previous best time of just over 44 minutes.
I've now been running for 9 weeks since I "completed" C25K, ie as long as the original programme again. When I was doing C25K I improved from a mix of running and walking 2.5 km, to running 4 km. I improved from one minute runs to the 30 minute continuous run of the graduation week. I wasn't able to run 5 km at all, but my nominal time for that distance was approximately 50 minutes as I was able to walk 5 km briskly at about that pace. Maybe a little over, say 52 minutes or something. My average pace improved from roundabout 9½' - 10' /km at the start to roundabout 9'/km.
In the 9 weeks post-programme, I've improved my total distance to 5.5 km, and my 5 km time to today's 43 minutes. I've proved to myself that I can run for 45 minutes without a break, though I usually don't quite do that because I stop when I get to 5K! My average pace is usually somewhere around 8½' /km. Where I haven't really improved is in how far I can get in 30 minutes, in nine weeks I've gone from 3.5 km to 3.6 km, which is not really impressive after all that effort. But I definitely am improving in other ways, so I'll keep at it.
