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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
Redball:
It's 6:30, the temp here is about 18C and I'm about to run. The temp in Fort Wayne is 17C. I think you can get used to running at temps in the 20s, though. Youth helps, but I was able to run in the high 20s as I reached 60, although I only did that as part of a team, and briefly.
Barmymoo:
I'm kicking myself because the hotel we stayed in had a gym, but I didn't find that out until I was showered and dressed - I had been lying silently in bed waiting for the other girls in my room to wake, so I could have gone and run there. But I have decided to accept that I won't be able to run much on tour, and start up again at Edith's.
Redball:
Maybe you'll be able to walk a lot.
Discrepancies, discrepancies:
1) I did Week 8 Day 2 today, which didn't match my spreadsheet entries. I checked the iPhone app, which shows dates of each run. I hadn't logged runs on the spreadsheet.
2) My app says my last run is Week 8, Day 3, which is 3mi/30min. But a C25K website says Week 9, three days of 3mi/30min, is the last. Doesn't matter to me.
bainidhe_dub:
I did week 5 day 3 today, a 20 minute run, with only a short walking break around the 12:00 mark to try & fix my hair clip, because the first time I tried I kept running and it really didn't last. My husband has been out of town so I ended up going out to run at 9pm yesterday and today, and I think I prefer it. It's marginally cooler (this week was better than last week anyway) and there aren't so many people out to deal with. And I'm not really concerned about safety because my running partner is a 100lb German Shepherd. People tend to give us space.
Redball:
I guess I finished C25K this morning: W8D3, 30 minutes.
But 5K? Not even close: More like 3 1/2K. I don't feel too bad about that, considering age. My heart rate was 115-125, my cardiologist will probably be pleased, and I'll start using a GPS app to track speed and distance as well as time. The C25K app I used didn't use GPS. I did track it today. My total distance, warmup and cooldown included, was about 2.9 miles, max speed was 5.8mph.
Years ago, I used to do 9-minute miles. A 10-minute/mile speed would give me 5k in 30 minutes.
I intend to keep posting in the thread, hoping it'll keep me on course.
Thanks for the participation and interest. I'm not sure I would have tried this if May hadn't asked for support, if we hadn't started the thread, if you hadn't signed on.
I'm not ready to add a dog to my household, but running with a four-legged friend sounds like a pleasure. As for time of day, I'd run at night if that was the only time available, but it was about 68F/20C when I started out at 8 a.m. today, and it's likely to be 80 at 9 p.m. Clara and I prepping for an event in the late 90s would drive into an Indiana park late in the evening, running in the dark on a paved road we could hardly see. It's a good memory.
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