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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
bainidhe_dub:
I did Week 3 Day 3 this morning. I'm not sure if it was because it's my first morning run, or because it's hot already, or because I'm a little hungover, but it was not great. I ended up walking the last run. I would blame being hungover but the dog was dragging like crazy too. I basically hauled him through a run, and as soon as I slowed to walk he slowed down more and I had to drag him for that too.
Barmymoo:
I'm pretty proud of myself, I did week 4 run 3 on Friday morning despite being in a totally new place where I wasn't sure there was a good route, and also knowing that I had a busy day ahead of me. I got up early, went out of the hotel and ran along the seafront and back, past all the old people having breakfast in their hotels. I was still alarmingly red when I went down to breakfast after my shower - is anyone else having this problem? I seem to getting more red-faced when I run, not less - but I felt great for having managed to keep up the routine despite being away from home. Hopefully I'll continue to do so even though I'm moving around a lot in the next month.
Redball:
I haven't looked to see if I'm red in the face or not. I suppose if I thought I was unusually flushed, I'd check my blood pressure. I do occasionally, but never think to do it just after a run. I'm fair and I blushed horribly in my teen years, a true red Ball, so it wouldn't surprise me to be quite red during a run.
My C25K app tells me when I'm halfway done, and I turn around and head home since my route takes me from my house at the end of a dead-end road on out of the subdivision. My wife and I in our running and traveling days enjoyed jogging through a new downtown, or any new area.
And my total route is still 2.0, 2.05 miles, even with today's W5R1. I think the reason is clear enough: My jog and my walk are the same speed, and the iPhone app changes pace but within the same total time. I was 46 or 47 when Clara and I started jogging, 61 when I stopped. My usual pace was a 9-minute mile, my best perhaps 8 or 8 1/2, but with Clara I'd run about 10 minute miles. Apparently I'm closer to 15 minutes. Gotta work on that. Later.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Redball on 17 Jun 2012, 04:05 ---That would be, or be like, my metoprolol -- since my stent. I take it in the morning and if I start out without it, my heart rate's a good deal higher.
--- End quote ---
Bisoprolol in my case - but I have to take four types of drug which together are the standard response to a heart attack, and given to everyone automatically - a beta blocker (bisoprolol), an ace inhibitor (ramipril), a statin (atorvastatin), and aspirin. I get irritated by the (admittedly slight) side-effects, not least because I had none of the conditions these things treat before the attack, at least not to the level that the doctors wanted to treat; but I can't argue with the fact that I actually had an attack, so reducing the risk factors further can only be seen as a good idea. On the other hand, twice, at the end of the supervised exercise sessions, after the end of the cooling down my blood pressure was so low that they wouldn't let me leave until it had gone up again; I have also fainted in shops when straightening up after looking at a low shelf for a period. I also have a stent, which was in place about 45 minutes after I collapsed (a major hospital is about 400 yards from my home).
Redball:
My only symptom was angina. I have a minor hospital 15 miles away. The nearest I'd trust with heart surgery are 1 1/2 hours in opposite directions. Living alone, it's doubtful in an emergency I'd have a choice.
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