angrboda: Running feet with running shoes on. (C25K)
Plutonian #2 ([personal profile] angrboda) wrote in [community profile] c25k2014-10-22 06:51 pm

Engage smug-mode. Smug-mode engaged.

*beams*

I did it. Today I ran for 30 minutes non-stop. Never EVER in my entire life have I been able to do that before. Now I just need to do that two more times and I have officially completed the program. Husband says I'm now entitled to purchase my kitchen machine. In reality, though, I'll wait a few months and see if I can get one marked down a little in the January sales. I mean, there's no reason to actually waste money if I don't have to.

So 30 minutes. That was tough, but I didn't feel like collapsing and dying in a ditch somewhere afterwards.

I don't really have anything else to say about it, really... I ran. It was running. Some of it was relatively fast for me and a lot of it was quite slow. I think what I'm going to try to do is to try today's strategy again. A bit faster for the first bit, slow in the middle and then faster again for the last bit. It'll be a bit like the running/walking bits, I think, and I can gradually make the slower bit shorter. I think that'll probably happen automatically, really.

I tried to keep an eye on landmarks today, so that I can listen to whatever I like without needing something to time me. The run started and stopped at easily recognisable places, so for the next few times I'll have to pay attention to whether I'll stop at approximately the same spot each time. Otherwise, I'll have to pick a spot to stop and start walking. Not a big deal at all.

I've measure today's approximate running distance and it was only actually 4K, but I think it's time now to start working a little more with distance rather than time, so I'm okay with that. I can adjust further to make it longer as/if I get quicker.
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[personal profile] rmc28 2014-10-22 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY! YOU DID IT!
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[personal profile] liv 2014-10-22 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY! All the congratulations! You ran for 30 minutes, that's fantastic. And I'm so pleased you documented the whole thing here in the community, your logs are such a joy to read.

And it sounds like you did pretty well with the pacing. Good luck with improving your distance now that you know you can keep going for half an hour. And enjoy your extremely well-earned kitchen machine :-)
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[personal profile] ceb 2014-10-22 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY go you! \o/

You totally earned the kitchen shinies, well self-motivated :-)
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[personal profile] ursamajor 2014-10-23 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
WOOHOO! That is supremely awesome, go you!