Week 5 is DONE!  Only 13 more weeks to go before jogging for 30 minutes straight.  I’m getting more and more eager for the weather to get nicer and there to be more day light, so that I can take this show on the road.  Even once it get’s nice I will primarily stick to the treadmill, but once a week might be nice, at least to get myself ready for the outdoor 5k in June.

Week 5 Recaps:

Friday January 29th, 2010-This was the first day of the next step in Rubenesque Ladies Running.  Starting today I had to walk for 5 minutes, jog for 90 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, jog for 3 minutes, walk for 3 minutes and then repeat this twice (minus the warm up) followed by a 5 minute cool down.  If you do the math, the cool down was actually 7 minutes so that I could reach a full 30 minutes.  I was really worried I wouldn’t be able to make it through the 3 minute intervals, but I was able to do it!  I was glad to have the 3 minute walking intervals though, it took me longer to recover than I expected.  I enjoy the Friday sessions the best, and I feel great now that this is done!  Walked at 3.1; jogged at 3.8 for a total of 1.71 Miles.  Pace 17:27

Tuesday February 2nd, 2010- I was worried that I was going to hate this one since I was a day late with my scheduled run.  I mixed things up a bit by listening to music with a timing application, and I felt like the sessions went faster than normal.  The first 3 minutes session went great, the second one I was counting down the time after I hit 2 minutes…only 50 more seconds…only 40 more seconds..  But I did it.  If I could just figure out how to turn the Closed Captioning on, on my TV, I’d be in treadmill heaven!  I walked at 3.1, did the first two jogging intervals at 3.9, did the last two jogging intervals at 4.0.  Total 1.74 miles.  Pace 17:07 (Fasted yet!)

Thursday February 4th, 2010-This run was almost a comedy to me.  I have a new phone and I set the alarm on it, but I guess I set the alarm to silent (useful eh?) luckily my normal alarm clock went off, but it goes off a few minutes later than I like to actually start moving and getting ready for working out.  I got on the treadmill, managed to forget to stretch, stopped stretched, got back going and once the running intervals were over, I somehow managed to yank the emergency stop cord off, so I came to a startling halt, got back going and walked the last ten minutes.  Like the previous run, I’m finding the 3 minute jogging intervals very do-able, the last-minute I really have to push myself through.  The good thing is, the 3 minute intervals really make me realize that the 90 second intervals are so much easier for me than they once were!  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.76 miles.  Pace 17:02 (yay for improvement!)

Did anyone see The Biggest Loser this week?  Did you find it strange the speeds that they were given to walk and run?  It was sort of nice to know that I am not so far behind them (or even ahead of them) regarding the speeds I use on the treadmill.  Granted they workout 8 hours a day   I just sort of found it interesting.

Tata for now,

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