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bainidhe_dub:
Yeah I went out right after dinner. Definitely a poor decision.

Redball:
An epiphany today: My runs have been the same length since W1R1 (or is it W1D1?). They haven't varied by so much as 5 percent. I finally realized the sad truth that my "running," my jogging, my shuffle-jogging, is no faster than my walking. Oh, well....
It means that if I ever find a GPS-based C25K app, I'm in trouble.

bainidhe_dub:
There's actually very little variation in the total jogging time over the first three weeks - just under half - it just increases the duration. I don't know what to say about week 4, it's 3/4 jogging, except that maybe the 5 minute jogs slow you down more? You could get RunKeeper and run it in the background. I find it doesn't match up perfectly with my C25K app in terms of distance, but it gives you your pace (or speed) for each minute. I haven't been using it lately but on the last run I tracked it definitely shows a change.

I'm actually kinda confused after looking at the coolrunning.com chart though. I think the app has had me doing 20 minute runs every time (plus the warm-up and cool-down) but only week 1 comes out neatly to 20 minutes. Weeks 2 through 4 are, by my math, 21 min, 18 min, and 21:30 if you go by time.

Redball:
I did buy a Polar H7 bluetooth heart rate monitor transmitter which sends to my older model wristwatch/receiver but also to most iPhone apps that track heart rate. I suppose an ideal app would be one which tracks GPS, heart rate and issues C25K commands. The app I'd expected to use, MotionX, does heart rate and gps but so far is incompatible with the H7 transmitter. I'm still looking, although it's not an urgent quest. It all satisfies the gadget-lover in me, the kid who likes to hook things up and watch them go.

lepetitfromage:
Did my first week 3 run yesterday. It felt good (well, not during....but it felt good to finish it)! My shins have been ok, aside from a few small twinges near the lower portion. My calves started to cramp up yesterday during the 3rd set of running, but I paid more attention to widening my stride and straightening my posture and somehow, it did the trick!

My weeks are off in the sense that they're a bit staggered. Some days I don't feel comfortable moving up the running time, so I just do another from the previous week. Then, I need to complete my runs from the previous week because sometimes adding that 4th from the week prior doesn't give me enough days doing the actual current week. It's setting me back on the chart a little bit, but I'm ok with that. It's still getting done. And if my "week" needs to be a week and a half for my legs to cooperate, I'm ok with that too.

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