Zombies day 4

[liv]

I'm at long last starting to feel as if my fitness is improving again rather than getting steadily worse. Today's run definitely felt like a workout but it was manageable rather than barely possible. Three of three zombie chases successfully evaded, and 3.3 km covered after I ran with Abel Radio for the 5 minutes or so after the short mission ended. I disapprove of the thing where the game wants you to run straight away with a very truncated warmup after the first couple of missions, but I'm getting round that by only starting the app 4 minutes into my 5 minute warmup, so that's fine.

I'm still enjoying the plot of the zombie game, and the fact of having my run broken up with mission updates and stuff collected announcements is definitely working as a random reward mechanism. I also reckon that the zombie chase system is doing me good because it's encouraging me to run the way that lots of experts recommend: mostly at a really gentle pace with occasional sprints. Before I started playing with Zombies, Run! I could never make myself go slow enough to keep my breathing even, and I often couldn't motivate myself to speed up properly either, but the challenge of trying to beat the zombie chases is really helping with that.