Saturday, June 9, 2012

Gym fail turned around!

I was up, awake and ready at the gym and my trainer didn't show!  So instead of leaving or doing a half assed workout, I jumped on the treadmill.  At first my goal was to be on it for 20 minutes, I'm a beginner anyhow, I walked at 3.5 mile pace for 5 minutes then upped it to 5 and started running!  I ran one minute, walked 4, 4 times.  I wasn't completely exhaused so I went for a 5th time and ran 2 minute the last interval!  So I walked 24/30 minutes, but I ran for 6!  And I'm not dead!  My ankle is fine, my knees are a tad bit achy, but that's nothing new.  I'm so proud of myself!

This was my first REAL planned "run".  I'm going slow, giving myself lots of recoup time and I fully intend to run again in 2-3 days.  I didn't bring anything to track my run (besides what the treadmill tells you) but this is what I did.

4 min walking 3.5mph
1 min running 5.0mph
4 min walking 3.5mph
1 min running 5.0 mph
4 min walking 3.5mph
1 min running 5.0mph
4 min walking 3.5mph
1 min running 5.0mph
4 min walking 3.2mph
2 min running 5.0mph
4 min walking 3.0mph

Not quite the easiest setting of couch to 5k (what beginner can really do that anyways!) but it's a start and I'm proud of it!

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