I decided to start my week today without a break. The weather was great and I like running on Sunday afternoons!
This week’s program is to do the 5 minute warm-up walk followed by 28 minutes of running. The goal distance is 2.75 miles for that 28 minutes.
My route for today was 3.13 miles. That’s a tiny bit longer than a 5k and I thought that week 8 of this program should give me a good idea of how close I am to my target of doing a 5k by the end of the “Couch to 5k” program.
I chose a really awful route though. Our town is not flat. It’s hard to find a route that covers 5k without doubling back or having to run some serious hills. The elevation of today’s route went from 994ft to 1053ft. I think most of that is one particular block and that feels like I’m running straight up. One of these days, I’m going to choose a flat route and see how speedy I am! ** I just went back and looked up the elevation of the one monster hill that I tackled today. In 1/3 mile I had an ascent of 46 ft. I started at 1007 and ended at 1053. I don’t know a lot about running, but that seems like a steep hill to me.**
Anyway, I did 3.13 miles in 38:10. Overall, that means I averaged about 12.11 a mile. For my 27 minutes (the podcast said the time was up a minute before it should have) of running, I did 2.37. That’s 11.4 minutes a mile.
See I told you I wasnt running that much faster than you lol. We can be race buddies! Are you treating this as an extra workout or doing it as your first run of the week?
I was planning to count it as the first run, but I don't know if I should since I only ran 27 minutes.
I can't believe how close our times were. When I did the math, our times were 1 second/mile apart.