Couch to 5k W6D3 A patched pothole in the road

Tonight I was supposed to finish off Week 6 Day 3 with a 25 minute run. I did a 30 minute run! It was awesome.

The 30 minute run is supposed to be the longest run of the program. So I'm done! Not really. This program is designed to get me to run for 30 minutes consistently. And I'm going to have to push harder as I go along.

Thanks to this really handy pedo tracker (or pedometer I suppose), I'm able to calculate exactly how slow I'm running. But for 30 minutes!

I pumped myself up for this run. I had no caffeine. Just a lot of water. It felt great. All I drink is water and tea.

Today I ate two slices of pizza, a bag of Peanut M&Ms, a bag of peanut butter crackers, a bag of Fig Newtons (single serving), and a vanilla wafer snack. That's ~$4 into the same vending machine because I worked until 9 pm this evening. But it was filling enough! I ended up having enough processed, crappy energy to support my run.

I was so excited as I was driving home. I was literally cussing myself out in anticipation. Apparently I can get really fired up by doing this. Then I get depressed and there's a wave of self-loathing. Then I don't run and go straight for the ice cream. I think only the first sentence of this paragraph is true.

I ran very well. 30:02 was my final time. 2.688 miles total. I think we can safely assume that 2.6 is a fine number within our experimental accuracy.

That translates to a mile time of almost 12 minutes considering I almost ran 3 miles. Which is interesting because by the end of the program I should be at about 3.1 miles. This is 5k. This is the point. So I'm not done! I don't usually go for distance, put in more effort, etc. I just want to finish running at a more or less constant speed. I know I ran my first mile in about 10 minutes. This is both encouraging and discouraging. I've run more than ever in my whole life. But I've had mile times that were in the 8 minute range. What I really want to do now is my mile time!

I'm going to take a break from C25K and do a 1 mile run for 1 day this week. It'll keep me energized and also help me gather some extra momentum into C25K W7. The big week 7. Three straight days of 25 minute runs! Exciting.