Week six of couch to 5k
Friday: Jog 5 minutes, Walk 3 minutes, Jog 8 minutes, Walk 3 minutes, Jog 5 minutes
8/25: My first experience jogging in the rain. It didn’t start raining heavily until I was almost done. Can’t say I loved it, seems like I might have the chance to try it out again on Monday.
Monday: Jog 10 minutes, Walk 3 minutes, Jog 10 minutes
8/28: I savored my last walking break listening to a Yo La Tengo song. The psychological difference between looking straight ahead while running rather than staring at the ground right in front of me struck me while crossing the Western Avenue bridge. I am tempted to go into all sorts of surfer-philosophy based on this realization.
Wednesday: Jog 25 minutes with no walking
8/30: I made it through today’s record breaking 25 minute run. I actually ran an extra minute. I had an all Clash mix today, but I couldn’t remember what the last song was. As a result when the iPod finished and started over with ‘London Calling’ again, I wasn’t sure if I’d heard that. All of those songs are so familiar anyway. When I heard “Phony beatlemania has bitten the dust’ I remembered that I had definitely heard this song 25 minutes ago. Mind like steel trap, I’m telling ya. I wound up with a long walk home Because I wasn’t sure when to stop. By the time I got home Lisa was starting to get worried about me.
It’s all jogging from here on out. it’s hard not to notice that I am the slowest runner out there. Also I have yet to run 5k. I am so going to be last in that race. I have to remember that I’m racing myself, and I can’t really lose in that situation, as long as I finish the course.
August 31st, 2006 at 2:13 pm
How far did you actually run in 25 minutes (I AM impressed!)? How long do you expect the 5K to take you?
August 31st, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I’m not totally sure how far I ran, I don’t have a pedometer and it’ stricky to figure out on the map. But alitl eover 2 miles. So that is about 3 and a half kilometers. Now that i am running for 25 minutes at a stretch i am *hoping* to slowly improve my speed. At this point I’ll be happy if I finish the 5k, preferably in less than 30 minutes. That’s really slow though. I hope someone else finishes in 31!
September 1st, 2006 at 7:45 am
just came across your blog while doing a blogsearch. i’ve been running regularly since about may (after about a 2 year running hiatus) and want to encourage you to stick with it, even though you feel you are the slowest one out there. even if that is actually true (which i doubt it is!), you are still in the upper 10% of everyone fitness-wise if you can run a mile without falling over.
once you get to where all your runs are ~ 30 minutes and you are recovering quickly afterwards, you’ll be able to work on speed if that’s something you want to do.
good luck!
September 1st, 2006 at 8:35 am
oh, and in most 5Ks, finishing in
September 1st, 2006 at 10:35 am
Hey - finish that last comment, Adam. In most 5ks sinishing… is what?
Thanks so much for the encouragement, I definitely need it.