Week 2 Day 2

[rmc28]

Success!

Done yesterday, on the way home from work.  I took a slightly different route which gave me more chances of crossing the big busy road that cuts across all my possible commutes home, as last week I had to basically stand and wait to cross.  I'll do that route again in future, it has a handy loop which I can go round more times if/when I get faster, but yesterday delivered me to my door 10 seconds after the end of the cool down.

No stitches this time, I paid more attention to running slowly enough that I was ok, and even when it started to rain towards the end of the run I was still ok and content/enjoying the endorphins (also I had a Bond songs mix to run to which I was loving).  Even so, I'm still basically hovering around the 2 mile mark with no appreciable further distance even though I'm exercising for 30s longer and running for 60s longer.

My general fitness seems to be improving: walking my commute has been a bit faster this week than last - from 17:40 min/mile down to 16:58 min/mile.  I once could powerwalk at 14:30 min/mile but only while getting nicely sweaty, but I'd like to see whether I could reach 16 min/mile without getting too hot (at least winter helps for that).

Comments

[rmc28]

The fitness in walking-speed comes from doing power-walking in 2009/10 (see rmcf_walks for logging about it). I never quite got out of the habit of tracking my walking pace where possible, especially on regular routes like my commute, and now I have RunKeeper to do the thinking for me, it's easy to do it on any walk I choose.

I would quite like to do the MoonWalk again some day, but for now I want to run. In particular, I want to reach the point where I can do Parkrun every week, rather than always training by myself.

[liv]

Yeah, I'm ridiculously better at walking and powerwalking than running, but like you I want to run. And I'm similarly aiming for Parkrun once I get through the C25K program. I might consider walking more serious distances as my next challenge if I get to the point where I'm happy with my running; Moonwalk sounds cool, and I am really envious of jack's mum who managed to work her way up from no real fitness at all to doing these mad 50-mile walks. But for now, running; I can afford 20 - 40 minutes three times a week, whereas I don't think I'd manage training for a couple of hours a day and then all day at the weekend.