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I completed week 5. I'm really proud of that, because the ramp up from 5 minutes continuous running to 20 minutes is the steepest part of the C25K curve. It took me slightly more than a week since I couldn't get out for several days (due to life reasons more than laziness, at least).

Run 1 with 5 minute intervals, 9½'/km. Run 2 with 8 minute intervals I have absolutely no measurement for since Zombies, Run! crashed after three minutes, and I thought I'd restart it once I got to the walking interval, and it crashed again so I tried restarting my phone, which then spent a very scary amount of time failing to boot. So I did two lots of 8 minutes which I didn't measure, with a very long gap in between while I tried to coax my phone out of its sulk. Phone is ok now, and I wasn't going for speed anyway, I was just trying to see if I could complete the two long intervals on a very hot day, and I could.

And today, the weather is finally bearable, and I ran a continuous 20 minutes at 9' 22'' /km. I didn't feel bad at all by the end, so I think I could have gone either further or maybe even a bit faster. I think if I manage to complete the whole 9 weeks I will in fact be a bit faster than the roughly 9½'/km I was running at the start, in 5 minute intervals. I was hoping to be somewhat faster by the middle of the programme, but then I have covered most of it during a very long heatwave, so probably wasn't building up speed as much as I might.

Also I have run exactly 50 km since I restarted using Zombies, Run! which is pleasing.

I managed to forget to put my running shoes on when I went out and ran in my normal shoes. They're soft-soled trainer-like things, so hopefully haven't wrecked my feet and ankles too badly. But anyway I didn't even notice until the end of the run, so hopefully it didn't have many consequences.

New shoes

Jul. 17th, 2014 07:56 pm
liv: oil painting of seated nude with her back to the viewer (body)
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I bought new running shoes at the weekend. Brooks Defyance [sic], which are basically very similar to my old running shoes (made from the same mould, apparently), but with somewhat less gait correction. Now that I have in fact managed to run 150 times in the year and a half since I first bought fancy shoes, I'm reasonably convinced that specialist running shoes are acceptable value for money.

Today was my first attempt running in them. They are neither miraculously better than my old shoes, nor uncomfortable due to being stiff and new or because of the lower amount of support. I was trying to run at a steady pace rather than pushing myself to break my PR. I struggled with motivation, even though there was nothing obviously physically wrong, I just felt out of sorts. I ended up taking a couple of walking breaks during the last quarter of my uphill mile, I just couldn't make myself keep running. Looking back at my charts it looks as if I maybe did too well with the steady thing; I didn't appreciably slow down for the uphill section, so it's perhaps not surprising that I ran out of energy by the end of it.

Total only 3.3 km in 30 minutes, but that's mainly because of the wobbly bit in the middle.
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