Today's run went off way better than I had hoped for. My legs didn't hurt so bad, my hips weren't aching for me to stop, my back felt fine, my shins did not feel like they were splitting open.... all was good. Granted running is still running and there for I still had to stop and take breaks. Sometimes when I'm running for a while I get light headed or dizzy which is never good and I always take it as a sign to slow down or stop. Today was a 2.5 mile run done in 40 minutes, not the greatest but better than last time (besides being less painful). My legs actually kept begging me to keep on going when they're usually telling me to stop.
Here's the breakdown:
Mile 1
- walk 3 minutes (warm up)
- run 7 minutes
- walk 2 minutes
- run 1 minute
- walk 2 minutes
Mile 2
- run 1 minute
- walk 2 minute
- run 1 minute
- walk 3 minutes
- run 2 minutes
- walk 4 minutes
- run 1 minute
- walk 1 minute
Last .5 Mile
- walk 5 minutes
- run 1 minute
- walk 4 minutes
That's a total of 14 minute running and 26 minutes walking. I'm hoping to at least get to where I can run 3.1 miles in 45 minutes (even though I'd really like my time to be less than that). I'd say today I would have been right on track until the last half of a mile :) Hopefully Thanksgiving will be a good running day for me.
Seven minutes of running?! Nice. Just need to keep up the training!
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